Wild Horse Mesa

Under current US copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain. This film, directed by George B. Seitz and based on the Zane Grey novel, was released in the United States on September 14, 1925, by Famous Players-Lasky. Because the film was published in 1925, its maximum possible copyright term (including the statutory extensions granted by the Copyright Act of 1976 and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998) was 95 years from the date of publication. Consequently, the copyright expired on January 1, 2021. The film is now legally in the public domain regardless of whether it was originally renewed at the 28-year mark (though it was originally registered under L 21715).