2019 in public domain

{{Short description|Overview of works entering public domain}}

When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of works that entered the public domain in 2019. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.

Entering the public domain in countries with life + 70 years

With the exception of Spain (which has a copyright term of Life + 80 years for creators that died before 1987), a work enters the public domain in the European Union 70 years after the creator's death, if it was published during the creator's lifetime.{{cite web |url=http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/publishing/eu-extends-copyright-term-to-70-years-1005348552.story |title=EU Extends Copyright Term To 70 Years | Billboard |publisher=Billboard.biz |date=2011-09-12 |accessdate=2014-01-07 |archive-date=2013-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106035644/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/publishing/eu-extends-copyright-term-to-70-years-1005348552.story |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32006L0116|title=EUR-Lex – 32006L0116 – EN – EUR-Lex|author=|date=|website=eur-lex.europa.eu|accessdate=7 January 2019}} For previously unpublished material, those who publish it first will have the publication rights for 25 years. Russia uses Life + 74 for authors who worked during World War II, otherwise copyright is Life + 70.{{cite web|url=http://www.consultant.ru/popular/gkrf4/ |title=Article 1281 of Civil Code |publisher=Consultant.ru |date= |accessdate=2012-06-08}} The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator that entered the public domain on January 1, 2019.

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! Names

! Country

! Birth

! Death

! Occupation

! Notable work

Alexander Aaronsohn

| {{flag|Israel}}

| 1888

| 1948

| Author

| With the Turks in Palestine

Sabahattin Ali

| {{flag|Turkey}}

| {{dts|1907|02|25|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|04|02|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| §Works

Francisco Alonso

| {{flag|Spain}}

| {{dts|1887|05|09|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|18|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Las Leandras

Carl Thomas Anderson

|{{flag|United States}}

|{{dts|1865|02|14|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1948|11|04|format=dmy}}

|Cartoonist

|Henry

Antonin Artaud

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1896|09|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|04|format=dmy}}

| Dramatist

| §Works

Kan'ichi Asakawa

| {{flag|Japan}}

| {{dts|1873|12|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|08|10|format=dmy}}

| Historian

| The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues

Gertrude Atherton

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1857|10|30|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|14|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| §Works

Jatindramohan Bagchi

| {{flag|India}}

| {{dts|1878|11|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|01|format=dmy}}

| Poet

|

Milan Begović

| {{flag|Croatia}}

| {{dts|1876|01|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|13|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Pustolov pred vratima

Hulusi Behçet

| {{flag|Turkey}}

| {{dts|1889|02|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|08|format=dmy}}

| Physician

| Clinical and Practical Syphilis, Diagnosis and Related Dermatoses

Ruth Benedict

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1887|06|05|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|17|format=dmy}}

| Anthropologist

| The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Frank Benford

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1883|05|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|04|format=dmy}}

| Physicist

| The law of anomalous numbers

Gertrude Barrows Bennett

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1884|07|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|02|format=dmy}}

| Writer of science fiction and fantasy

| The Citadel of Fear, The Heads of Cerberus, Claimed

Nikolai Berdyaev

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1874|03|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|24|format=dmy}}

| Philosopher

| §Works

Folke Bernadotte

| {{flag|Sweden}}

| {{dts|1895|01|02|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|17|format=dmy}}

| Diplomat, nobleman

| §Works

Georges Bernanos

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1888|02|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|05|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| The Diary of a Country Priest

Hendrik van der Bijl

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| {{dts|1887|11|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|02|format=dmy}}

| Engineer

| Theory and Operating Characteristics of the Thermionic Amplifier

Nasib al-Bitar

| {{flag|Palestine}}

| {{dts|1890|06|13|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|26|format=dmy}}

| Jurist

| Al-Fareeda Fi Hisab Al-Fareedhah

André Bloch

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1893|11|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|11|format=dmy}}

| Mathematician

| La conception actuelle de la theorie des fonctions entieres et meromorphes

Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1862|02|06|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|19|format=dmy}}

| Botanist

| Beiträge zur Flora Mazedoniens

Gordon Bottomley

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1874|02|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|08|25|format=dmy}}

| Poet, playwright

| The Crier By Night

Harry Brearley

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1871|02|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|14|format=dmy}}

| Metallurgist

| Knotted String

Sophonisba Breckinridge

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1866|04|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|30|format=dmy}}

| Economist, social scientist

| Marriage and the Civic Rights of Women

Robert Briffault

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1876|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|11|format=dmy}}

| Anthropologist, novelist

| The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions

Abraham Brill

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1874|10|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|02|format=dmy}}

| Psychiatrist

| Psychoanalysis: Its Theories and Practical Application

Alice Brown

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1857|12|05|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|21|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| §Works

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan

| {{flag|India}}

| {{dts|1904|08|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|15|format=dmy}}

| Poet

| Jhansi Ki Rani

Hiram Alfred Cody

| {{flag|Canada}}

| {{dts|1872|07|03|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|09|format=dmy}}

| Writer, Clergyman

| The Frontiersman: A Tale of the Yukon

Umberto Coromaldi

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1870|09|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|05|format=dmy}}

| Painter

| Happy Mother

Osamu Dazai

| {{flag|Japan}}

| {{dts|1909|06|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|13|format=dmy}}

| Author

| The Setting Sun, No Longer Human

Mary Angela Dickens

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1862|10|31|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|07|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Cross Currents

Dildar

| {{flag|Iraq}}

| {{dts|1918|02|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|12|format=dmy}}

| Poet

| Ey Reqîb

Janus Djurhuus

| {{flag|Faroe Islands}}

| {{dts|1881|02|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|01|format=dmy}}

| Poet

|

Lawrence Donovan

|{{flag|United States}}

|{{dts|1866|07|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1948|03|11|format=dmy}}

|Novelist and pulp fiction author

|

Rheta Childe Dorr

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1866|11|02|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|08|08|format=dmy}}

| Journalist, Suffragist

| What Eight Million Women Want

O. Douglas

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1877|03|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|11|24|format=dmy}}

| Author

| Olivia in India

Sergei Eisenstein

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1898|01|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|11|format=dmy}}

| Film Director

| Battleship Potemkin

Pompeu Fabra

| {{flag|Spain}}

| {{dts|1868|02|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|25|format=dmy}}

| Grammarian

| Diccionari General de la Llengua Catalana

Ferdinand I of Bulgaria

| {{flag|Bulgaria}}

| {{dts|1861|02|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|10|format=dmy}}

| King of Bulgaria (1887–1918), author, botanist, entomologist

|

Jacques Feyder

| {{flag|Belgium}}

| {{dts|1885|07|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|24|format=dmy}}

| Film Director, screenwriter,

| Crainquebille

William Arms Fisher

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1861|04|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|18|format=dmy}}

| Composer, writer

|

Zelda Fitzgerald

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1900|07|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|10|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| Save Me the Waltz

Gustaf Fjæstad

| {{flag|Sweden}}

| {{dts|1868|12|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|17|format=dmy}}

| Artist

|

Karl Gebhardt

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1897|11|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|02|format=dmy}}

| Doctor

| Chirurgische krankengymnastik

Umberto Giordano

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1867|08|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|11|12|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Andrea Chénier

Susan Glaspell

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1876|07|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|28|format=dmy}}

| Playwright, novelist

| Trifles

Arshile Gorky

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1904|04|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|21|format=dmy}}

| Painter

| The Liver is the Cock's Comb

D. W. Griffith

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1875|01|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|23|format=dmy}}

| Film director, producer

| The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms

Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim

| {{flag|Ukraine}}

| {{dts|1888|03|06|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|04|format=dmy}}

| Botanist

|

Frederick Philip Grove

| {{flag|Germany}}
{{flag|Canada}}

| {{dts|1879|02|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|09|format=dmy}}

| Writer, translator

| Settlers of the Marsh

Uzeyir Hajibeyov

| {{flag|Azerbaijan}}

| {{dts|1885|09|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|11|23|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Leyli and Majnun

Thomas William Hanforth

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1867|03|06|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|05|format=dmy}}

| Composer

|

Ernest George Henham

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1870|12|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|04|03|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Furze the Cruel

Ernst Herzfeld

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1879|07|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|01|21|format=dmy}}

| Archaeologist

| Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra

Johan Hjort

| {{flag|Norway}}

| {{dts|1869|02|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|07|format=dmy}}

| Marine Biologist

| The Depths of the Ocean

Seth Hoffman

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1895|09|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|08|02|format=dmy}}

| Artist

|

Vicente Huidobro

| {{flag|Chile}}

| {{dts|1893|01|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|01|02|format=dmy}}

| Poet

| Altazor o el viaje en paracaídas

Victor Ido

| {{flag|Indonesia}}

| {{dts|1869|02|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|20|format=dmy}}

| Writer, journalist

| De paupers

William Henry Irwin

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1873|09|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|24|format=dmy}}

| Journalist, writer

| The House That Shadows Built

Susan Sutherland Isaacs

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1885|05|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|12|format=dmy}}

| Psychologist

| Intellectual Growth in Young Children

Hédi Khayachi

| {{flag|Tunisia}}

| 1882

| 1948

| Painter

|

Kan Kikuchi

| {{flag|Japan}}

| {{dts|1888|12|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|06|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| Tōjūrō no Koi

Egon Kisch

| {{flag|Czech Republic}}

| {{dts|1885|04|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|31|format=dmy}}

| Journalist, writer

| Schreib das auf, Kisch!

August Köhler

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1866|3|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|12|format=dmy}}

| Physicist

|Gedanken zu einem neuen Beleuchtungsverfahren für mikrophotographische Zwecke

Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1870|04|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|16|format=dmy}}

| General

| Mit dem Turken zum Suezkanal

Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1873|05|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|04|08|format=dmy}}

| Entomologist

| The Eurasian Arctic Fauna and Its Origin

Franz Lehár

| {{flag|Hungary}}

| {{dts|1870|04|30|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|24|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| List of operas and operettas

Rudolf Franz Lehnert

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1878|07|13|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|01|16|format=dmy}}

| Photographer

|

Maximilian Lenz

| {{flag|Austria}}

| {{dts|1860|10|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|19|format=dmy}}

| Artist

| A World, A Song of Spring

Monteiro Lobato

| {{flag|Brazil}}

| {{dts|1882|04|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|04|format=dmy}}

| Novelist, publisher

| Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (novel series)

Ross Lockridge Jr.

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1914|04|25|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|06|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| Raintree County

Emil Ludwig

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1881|01|25|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|17|format=dmy}}

| Biographer

| Bismarck

Edith Balfour Lyttelton

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1865|04|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|02|format=dmy}}

| Writer, spiritualist

|

Nikola Marinov

| {{flag|Bulgaria}}

| {{dts|1879|07|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|16|format=dmy}}

| Painter

|

Jan Masaryk

| {{flag|Czech Republic}}

| {{dts|1886|09|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|10|format=dmy}}

| Politician

| Speaking to My Country

Ilya Mashkov

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1881|07|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1944|03|20|format=dmy}}

| Painter

|

A. E. W. Mason

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1865|05|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|11|22|format=dmy}}

| Author, politician

| The Four Feathers

Gerardo Matos Rodríguez

| {{flag|Uruguay}}

| {{dts|1897|03|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|04|25|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| La cumparsita

Claude McKay

| {{flag|Jamaica}}

| {{dts|1889|09|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|22|format=dmy}}

| Writer

|§Works

Ernest Merritt

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1865|04|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|05|format=dmy}}

| Physicist, educator

|

Kerry Mills

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1869|02|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|05|format=dmy}}

| Composer

|

Harry A. Millis

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1873|04|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|25|format=dmy}}

| Economist

|

Wesley Clair Mitchell

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1874|08|05|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|29|format=dmy}}

| Economist

| The Role of Money in Economic Theory

Thomas Mofolo

| {{flag|Lesotho}}

| {{dts|1876|12|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|08|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Chaka

Prosper Montagné

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1865|11|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|04|22|format=dmy}}

| Chef, Gastronome

| Larousse Gastronomique

Sylvanus Morley

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1883|06|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|02|format=dmy}}

| Archeologist

| The Ancient Maya

Na Hye-sŏk

| {{flag|South Korea}}

| {{dts|1896|04|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|10|format=dmy}}

| Painter

| Works

Baldassarre Negroni

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1877|01|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|18|format=dmy}}

| Film director

| The Courier of Moncenisio

Fred Niblo

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1877|01|06|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|11|07|format=dmy}}

| Film Director, actor

| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Alan Odle

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| 1888

| 1948

| Illustrator

|

Edith Olivier

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1872|12|31|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|10|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Alexander the Corrector: The Eccentric Life of Alexander Cruden

Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan

| {{flag|Ireland}}

| {{dts|1874|04|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|18|format=dmy}}

| Dramatist, novelist

| Adam of Dublin

Margaret Pedler

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| 1877

| {{dts|1948|12|28|format=dmy}}

| Romance Author

| Barbarian Lover

John J. Pershing

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1860|03|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|15|format=dmy}}

| General

| My Experiences in the World War

Albert Pollard

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1869|12|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|08|03|format=dmy}}

| Historian

| The Evolution of Parliament

Manuel Ponce

| {{flag|Mexico}}

| {{dts|1882|12|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|04|24|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Estrellita

Abram Ranovich

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1885|12|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|29|format=dmy}}

| Historian

| On Early Christianity

Charles Herbert Reilly

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1874|03|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|02|format=dmy}}

| Architect

| Representative British Architects of the Present Day

Charles Grant Robertson

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| 1869

| {{dts|1948|02|29|format=dmy}}

| Historian, novelist

| England under the Hanoverians

J.-H. Rosny jeune

| {{flag|Belgium}}
{{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1859|07|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|21|format=dmy}}

| Writer

|

Sultanzade Sabahaddin

| {{flag|Turkey}}

| {{dts|1879|02|13|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|30|format=dmy}}

| Sociologist

| The Witness

Husain Salaahuddin

| {{flag|Maldives}}

| {{dts|1881|04|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|20|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| The Story of Thakurufaan the Great

Maria Olga de Moraes Sarmento da Silveira

| {{flag|Portugal}}

| {{dts|1881|05|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|10|17|format=dmy}}

| Writer, feminist

| Problema Feminista

Kurt Schwitters

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1887|06|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|01|08|format=dmy}}

| Artist

| Das Undbild

Antonin Sertillanges

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1863|11|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|07|26|format=dmy}}

| Priest, author

| What Jesus Saw from the Cross

Lamed Shapiro

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1878|03|10|format=dmy}}

| 1948

| Author

| Di yidishe melukhe un andere zakhn

D. D. Sheehan

| {{flag|Ireland}}

| {{dts|1873|05|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|11|28|format=dmy}}

| Politician, author

| Ireland since Parnell

David Shterenberg

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1881|07|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|05|01|format=dmy}}

| Painter and graphic artist

| §Works

Charles Silvestre

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1889|02|02|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|03|31|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| §Works

Annie M. P. Smithson

|{{flag|Ireland}}

|26 September 1873

|21 February 1948

|Author, nurse.

|The Walk of a Queen

Marjory Stephenson

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1885|01|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|12|format=dmy}}

| Biochemist

|

Montague Summers

|{{flag|United Kingdom}}

|{{dts|1880|04|10|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1948|08|10|format=dmy}}

|Author and clergyman

|Malleus Maleficarum

Alexander du Toit

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| {{dts|1878|03|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|25|format=dmy}}

| Geologist

| Our Wandering Continents; An Hypothesis of Continental Drifting

Richard C. Tolman

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1881|03|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|05|format=dmy}}

| Physicist

| The Principles of Statistical Mechanics

Karl Valentin

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1882|06|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|02|09|format=dmy}}

| Comedian

| §Works

José Vianna da Motta

| {{flag|Portugal}}

| {{dts|1868|04|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|01|format=dmy}}

| Pianist, composer

| §Works

Franco Vittadini

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1884|04|09|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|11|30|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Anima Allegra

Augusto Weberbauer

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1871|11|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|01|16|format=dmy}}

| Botanist

| Die Pflanzenwelt der peruanischen Anden in ihren Grundzügen

Paul Wegener

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1874|12|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|13|format=dmy}}

| Film Director, screenwriter

| The Student of Prague

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1876|01|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|01|21|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Il segreto di Susanna

George MacKinnon Wrong

| {{flag|Canada}}

| {{dts|1860|06|25|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|29|format=dmy}}

| Historian

| The Conquest of New France

Muhammad Amin Zaki

| {{flag|Iraq}}

| 1880

| 1948

| Historian

| A Short History of the Kurds and Kurdistan

Andrei Zhdanov

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1896|02|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|08|31|format=dmy}}

| Politician

|Советская литература,
Стахановцы настоящие большевики производства

Entering the public domain in countries with life + 60 years

In Bangladesh, India, and Venezuela a work enters the public domain 60 years after the creator's death.

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!Names

!Country

!Birth

!Death

!Occupation

!Notable work

Johannes R. Becher

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1891|05|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|10|11|format=dmy}}

| Politician, novelist, poet

| Auferstanden aus Ruinen

Entering the public domain in countries with life + 50 years

In most countries of Africa and Asia, as well as Belarus, Bolivia, Canada, New Zealand and Uruguay; a work enters the public domain 50 years after the creator's death.

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! Names

! Country

! Birth

! Death

! Occupation

! Notable work

Peter Arno

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1904|01|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|02|22|format=dmy}}

| Cartoonist

|

Karl Barth

| {{flag|Switzerland}}

| {{dts|1886|05|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|12|10|format=dmy}}

| Theologian

| Church Dogmatics

Enid Blyton

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1897|08|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|11|28|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, Noddy

Hugo Butler

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1914|05|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|01|07|format=dmy}}

| Screenwriter

| Lassie Come Home

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1895|04|03|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|03|16|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Les Guitares bien tempérées

Juan José Castro

| {{flag|Argentina}}

| {{dts|1895|03|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|09|03|format=dmy}}

| Composer

|

Randolph Churchill

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1911|05|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|06|06|format=dmy}}

| Journalist, politician

| Lord Derby: King of Lancashire

Carmelo de Arzadun

| {{flag|Uruguay}}

| {{dts|1888|07|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|10|16|format=dmy}}

| Painter

|

Kees van Dongen

| {{flag|Netherlands}}

| {{dts|1877|01|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|05|28|format=dmy}}

| Painter

| Woman with Large Hat

Carl Theodor Dreyer

| {{flag|Denmark}}

| {{dts|1889|02|03|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|03|20|format=dmy}}

| Film Director

| Michael

Marcel Duchamp

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1887|07|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|10|02|format=dmy}}

| Artist, writer

| Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, Fountain

Margaret Duley

| {{flag|Canada}}

| {{dts|1894|09|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|03|22|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| §Works

Edna Ferber

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1885|08|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|04|15|format=dmy}}

| Novelist, playwright

| So Big, Show Boat

Red Foley

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1910|06|17|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|09|19|format=dmy}}

| Singer-songwriter

| Old Shep

Lucio Fontana

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1899|02|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|09|07|format=dmy}}

| Painter, sculptor

Ruth France

| {{flag|New Zealand}}

| {{dts|1913|06|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|08|19|format=dmy}}

| Librarian, poet, novelist

| The Race

George Gamow

| {{flag|Soviet Union}}
{{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1904|03|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|08|19|format=dmy}}

| Physicist, Science writer

| One Two Three... Infinity and Mr. Tompkins series

Alice Guy-Blaché

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1873|07|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|03|24|format=dmy}}

| Filmmaker, screenwriter

| La Fée aux Choux

Otto Hahn

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1879|03|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|07|28|format=dmy}}

| Chemist

| Applied Radiochemistry

John Heartfield

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1891|06|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|04|26|format=dmy}}

| Artist

|

Fannie Hurst

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1885|10|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|02|23|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| Imitation of Life, Lummox

Muhammad Taha al-Huwayzi

| {{flag|Iran}}{{flag|Iraq}}

| 1889

| {{dts|1968|04|04|format=dmy}}

| Religious teacher, poet

| Tā'liqāt fī mustafīḍah al-fiqh wa-al-uṣūl

W. E. Johns

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1893|02|05|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|06|21|format=dmy}}

| Writer, aviator

| The Biggles series

Anna Kavan

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1901|04|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|12|05|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Ice

Helen Keller

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1880|06|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|06|01|format=dmy}}

| Author, activist

| The Story of My Life

Robert F. Kennedy

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1925|11|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|06|06|format=dmy}}

| Politician, lawyer, author

| The Enemy Within

Martin Luther King Jr.

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1929|01|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|04|04|format=dmy}}

| Civil rights leader, minister

| Why We Can't Wait

Robert Z. Leonard

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1889|10|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|08|27|format=dmy}}

| Film Director, screenwriter

| The Great Ziegfeld

Albert Lewin

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1894|09|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|05|09|format=dmy}}

| Director, screenwriter

| The Picture of Dorian Gray

Trygve Lie

| {{flag|Norway}}

| {{dts|1896|07|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|12|30|format=dmy}}

| Politician, author

| In the Cause of Peace: Seven Years With The United Nations

Howard Lindsay

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1889|03|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|02|11|format=dmy}}

| Playwright, librettist

| State of the Union

Little Walter

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1930|05|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|02|15|format=dmy}}

| Blues musician

| Juke

Dorothea Mackellar

| {{flag|Australia}}

| {{dts|1885|07|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|01|14|format=dmy}}

| Poet

| My Country

Archie Mayo

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1891|01|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|12|04|format=dmy}}

| Film director, actor

| Night After Night

Ramón Menéndez Pidal

| {{flag|Spain}}

| {{dts|1869|03|13|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|11|14|format=dmy}}

| Historian

| La España del Cid

Thomas Merton

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1915|01|31|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|12|10|format=dmy}}

| Monk, author

| The Seven Storey Mountain

{{Interlanguage link|José Monegal|es}}

| {{flag|Uruguay}}

| {{dts|1892|07|25|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|11|04|format=dmy}}

| Writer, journalist

| Memorias de Juan Pedro Camargo

Wes Montgomery

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1923|03|06|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|06|15|format=dmy}}

| Jazz guitarist

| The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

Elsie K. Morton

| {{flag|New Zealand}}

| {{dts|1885|10|05|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|08|21|format=dmy}}

| Journalist, writer

| Along the Road: a book of New Zealand life and travel

Walter Nash

| {{flag|New Zealand}}

| {{dts|1882|02|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|06|04|format=dmy}}

| Politician

| New Zealand: a working democracy

Edwin O'Connor

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1918|07|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|03|23|format=dmy}}

| Novelist, journalist

| The Last Hurrah, The Edge of Sadness

Erwin Panofsky

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1892|03|30|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|03|14|format=dmy}}

| Art Historian

| Early Netherlandish Painting

Mervyn Peake

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1911|07|09|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|11|17|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Gormenghast Trilogy

Salvatore Quasimodo

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1901|08|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|06|14|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Giorno dopo giorno

Herbert Read

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1893|12|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|06|12|format=dmy}}

| Art Historian

| To Hell With Culture

Conrad Richter

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1890|10|13|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|10|30|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| The Town

Nelle Scanlan

| {{flag|New Zealand}}

| {{dts|1882|01|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|10|05|format=dmy}}

| Novelist, journalist

| The Pencarrow series

Upton Sinclair

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1878|09|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|11|25|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| The Jungle

John Steinbeck

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1902|02|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|12|20|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath

Tian Han

| {{flag|China}}

| {{dts|1898|03|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|12|10|format=dmy}}

| Playwright

| Xie Yaohuan

Rose Wilder Lane

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1886|12|05|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|10|30|format=dmy}}

| Writer, Political Theorist

| The Discovery of Freedom

Clare Winger Harris

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1891|01|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|10|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Away From the Here and Now

{{Interlanguage link|Justino Zavala Muniz|es}}

| {{flag|Uruguay}}

| {{dts|1898|07|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|03|23|format=dmy}}

| Writer, playwright, historian, journalist, politician

| La cruz de los caminos, Alto Alegre

Karl Zuchardt

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1887|02|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|11|12|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| Wie lange noch, Bonaparte?

Entering the public domain in Australia

{{See also|Copyright law of Australia}}

In 2004 copyright in Australia changed from a "plus 50" law to a "plus 70" law, in line with the United States and the European Union. But the change was not made retroactive (unlike the 1995 change in the European Union which brought some e.g. British authors back into copyright, especially those who died from 1925 to 1944). Hence the work of an author who died before 1955 is normally in the public domain in Australia; but the copyright of authors was extended to 70 years after death for those who died in 1955 or later, and no more Australian authors would come out of copyright until 1 January 2026 (those who died in 1955).

On January 1, 2019, any unpublished work by an author who died in 1948 or before entered the public domain.{{cite web|title=New copyright duration changes coming|url=https://www.communications.gov.au/departmental-news/new-copyright-duration-changes-coming|website=Australian Government-Department of Communications & The Arts|accessdate=23 April 2018|date=2018-04-23}} Additionally, any published literary, artistic, dramatic, or musical work (other than computer programs) by a not generally known author (anonymous or pseudonymous) from 1948 or before entered the public domain.

Entering the public domain in the United States

{{See also|Public domain in the United States}}

File:Safety Last! (1923) by Fred C. Newmeyer.webm entered the public domain in the US in 2019.]]

2019 was the first year since 1998 in which the majority of media from a previous year entered the public domain after the expiration of its copyright term.{{cite news|last=Fleishman |first=Glenn |title=A Landslide of Classic Art Is About to Enter the Public Domain |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copywritten-so-dont-copy-me/557420/ |work=The Atlantic |date=8 April 2018 |accessdate=9 May 2018 }} 2019 is also the first year in this annual process, where 1923 works become public domain that year, then 1924 works in 2020, and so on forward.

Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books, films, and other works published in the United States in 1923 entered the public domain in 2019.{{cite web |title=Copyright and the Public Domain |publisher=Public Domain Information Project |url=http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php |accessdate=2015-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140801121535/http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php |archive-date=2014-08-01 |url-status = dead}} Additionally, unpublished works whose authors died in 1948 entered the public domain. Foreign works from 1923 that were never published in the United States may be in the public domain as well.{{Cite web|url=https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain#Footnote_12|title=Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States {{!}} Copyright Information Center|website=copyright.cornell.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-04-25}} This was the first time since January 1, 1998, that a new group of works entered the public domain in the United States. From now on, works governed by the Copyright Act of 1909 will enter the public domain at the end of the 95th calendar year from publication. For example, 1924 works entered the public domain on January 1, 2020, 1925 works in 2021, and so forth.

No United States audio recordings entered the public domain (as those fixed before February 15, 1972 were covered by state laws only), but international audio recordings published in 1923 entered the public domain in 2019. Under the Music Modernization Act, 1923 domestic audio recordings entered the public domain in 2024. However, all sheet music published in 1923 in the United States entered the public domain in 2019.

Some of the works that entered public domain are The Great American Novel by William Carlos Williams, Charlie Chaplin's The Pilgrim, Harold Lloyd's Safety Last!, Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie, Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments, Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay, and the first 2 volumes of Winston Churchill’s The World Crisis. While Christie, Huxley, and Churchill were all non-American authors, these works were also published in the United States and their copyright was registered and renewed.{{Cite web|url=https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals|title=Copyright Renewals|website=Spotlight at Stanford|language=en|access-date=2018-04-25}} Hence, copyright expired in 2019.

On January 24th 2019 it was announced that Nina Paley was placing her 2018 film Seder-Masochism in the public domain.{{Cite web|url=https://sedermasochism.com/2019/01/02/press-release-seder-masochism-to-go-public-domain-january-31-2019/|title=PRESS RELEASE: Seder-Masochism to go Public Domain January 31, 2019|website=sedermasochism|language=en|access-date=2024-11-17}}

See also

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