Une chute de cinq étages

The film 'Une chute de cinq étages' (English title: 'A Fall from Five Stories') was directed by Georges Méliès and released in 1906. Under US copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of their country of origin or renewal status. As a 1906 production, the term of copyright protection (maximum 95 years from publication) has long since expired. While the film is a French production, the URAA (Uruguay Round Agreements Act) restoration of foreign copyrights only applies to works that were still under copyright in their source country on January 1, 1996. Even if it had been restored, the 95-year US term for a 1906 work would have ended no later than 2001. Therefore, the film is definitively in the public domain in the United States. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.