2021 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 creators whose works entered the public domain in 2021. 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 Belarus (where the copyright protection is life + 50 years)[https://archive.today/20050321142536/http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/by/by003en.html Law 194-3 of 11 August 1998]{{rp|Art. 22(1)}} and Spain (which has a copyright term of life + 80 years for creators that died before 1987), a work enters the public domain in Europe 70 years after the creator's death, if it was published during the creator's lifetime. For previously unpublished material, those who publish it first will have the publication rights for 25 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator that entered the public domain on 1 January 2021.
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!Names !Country !Birth !Death !Occupation !Notable work | ||
Octave-Louis Aubert
| {{flag|France}} | {{dts|1870|01|08|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|01|14|format=dmy}} | Writer, journalist | Le Livre de la Bretagne | ||
Irving Bacheller
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1859|09|26|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|02|24|format=dmy}} | Writer, journalist | ||
Sergei Bakhrushin
| {{flag|Russia}} | {{dts|1882|10|08|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|03|08|format=dmy}} | Historian | | ||
Miklós Bánffy
| {{flag|Hungary}} | {{dts|1873|12|30|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|06|05|format=dmy}} | Nobleman, politician, writer | ||
Pavel Bazhov
| {{flag|Russia}} | {{dts|1879|01|27|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|12|3|format=dmy}} | Writer | ||
Max Beckmann
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1884|02|12|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|12|27|format=dmy}} | Painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor | | ||
William Rose Benét
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1886|02|02|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|05|04|format=dmy}} | Writer, poet, editor | ||
Lev Berg
| {{flag|Russia}} | {{dts|1876|3|14|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|12|24|format=dmy}} | Geographer, biologist and ichthyologist | | ||
Ben Black
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1889|12|11|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|12|26|format=dmy}} | Composer, lyricist | "Moonlight and Roses" | ||
Léon Blum
| {{flag|France}} | {{dts|1872|4|9|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|3|30|format=dmy}} | Politician | Les Problèmes de la Paix | ||
{{interlanguage link|Ambrogio Bollati|it}}
| {{flag|Italy}} | {{dts|1871|11|26|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|03|26|format=dmy}} | General, Historian | Works | ||
D. K. Broster
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1877|09|02|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|02|07|format=dmy}} | Novelist | The Flight of the Heron | ||
Herbert Ashwin Budd
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1881 | |format=dmy}}
| {{dts|1950 | |format=dmy}}
| Painter | |
Joe Burke
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1884|03|18|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|06|09|format=dmy}} | Songwriter, Composer, pianist | "Dancing With Tears in My Eyes", "Painting the Clouds With Sunshine", "Rambling Rose", "Tip-Toe Through the Tulips" | ||
Edgar Rice Burroughs
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1875|09|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|03|19|format=dmy}} | Author of adventure and science fiction | ||
J. Carlos
| {{flag|Brazil}} | {{dts|1884|07|18|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|10|02|format=dmy}} | Cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer, sculptor | | ||
Basilio Cascella
| {{flag|Italy}} | {{dts|1860|10|02|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|07|24|format=dmy}} | Artist | {{interlanguage link|Il bagno della pastora|it}} | ||
Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao
| {{flag|Spain}} | {{dts|1886|1|29|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|1|7|format=dmy}} | Painter | | ||
Neville William Cayley
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1886|1|7|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|3|17|format=dmy}} | Ornithologist & artist | "What Bird is That?", 1931 | ||
Francesco Cilea
| {{flag|Italy}} | {{dts|1866|07|26|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|11|20|format=dmy}} | Composer | ||
Leôncio Correia (pt)
| {{flag|Brazil}} | {{dts|1865|01|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|06|19|format=dmy}} | Lawyer, politician, writer and journalist | | ||
Erle Cox
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1873|08|15|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|11|20|format=dmy}} | Journalist and science fiction writer | Out of the Silence | ||
Walter Damrosch
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1862|01|30|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|12|22|format=dmy}} | Composer | | ||
Frank Parker Day
| {{flag|Canada}} | {{dts|1881|05|09|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|07|30|format=dmy}} | Author and academic | | ||
Warwick Deeping
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1877|05|28|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|04|20|format=dmy}} | Author | ||
Buddy DeSylva
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1895|01|27|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|07|11|format=dmy}} | Songwriter | Avalon, Look For the Silver Lining, Somebody Loves Me | ||
Edward d'Evry
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1869|06|06|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|12|25|format=dmy}} | Composer | | ||
Lancelot de Mole
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1880|3|12|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|5|6|format=dmy}} | Engineer & inventor | Tracked armoured vehicle, 1911 | ||
Clément Doucet
| {{flag|Belgium}} | {{dts|1895|04|09|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|10|15|format=dmy}} | Composer, pianist | | ||
Anatoly Drozdov (ru)
| {{flag|Russia}} | {{dts|1883|11|04|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|09|10|format=dmy}} | Composer, pianist | | ||
Theodor Duesterberg
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1875|10|19|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|11|4|format=dmy}} | Politician | The Steel Helmet and Hitler | ||
Walter Eucken
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1891|1|17|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|3|20|format=dmy}} | Economist | Works | ||
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1876|09|07|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|07|05|format=dmy}} | Author of children and young adult literature | | ||
Yevgeny Gunst
| {{flag|Russia}} | {{dts|1877|06|07|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|01|30|format=dmy}} | Composer | | ||
John Gould Fletcher
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1886|01|03|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|05|10|format=dmy}} | Poet | Selected Poems | ||
Ernest Haycox
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1899|10|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|10|13|format=dmy}} | Author of Western fiction | | ||
John Rippiner Heath
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1887|01|04|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|12|23|format=dmy}} | Doctor, musician, composer | Three Macedonian Sketches | ||
William Hovgaard
| {{flag|Denmark}} | {{dts|1857|11|28|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|01|05|format=dmy}} | Professor, Writer | Submarine Boats, The Voyages Of The Norsemen To America | ||
Heydar Huseynov
| {{flag|Azerbaijan}} | {{dts|1908|04|03|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|08|15|format=dmy}} | Philosopher | Dialectical Materialism | ||
Rex Ingram
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1892|01|15|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|07|02|format=dmy}} | Film director, producer, writer and actor | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Prisoner of Zenda | ||
George Cecil Ives
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1867|10|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|06|04|format=dmy}} | Writer, penal reformer | ||
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
| {{flag|Switzerland}} | {{dts|1865|07|06|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|07|01|format=dmy}} | Composer, music educator | | ||
Johannes V. Jensen
| {{flag|Denmark}} | {{dts|1873|01|20|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|11|25|format=dmy}} | Author | ||
Charles L. Johnson
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1876|12|03|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|12|28|format=dmy}} | Composer | | ||
Al Jolson
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1886|05|26|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|10|23|format=dmy}} | Songwriter | | ||
Eddie Kilfeather
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1900|04|05|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|01|13|format=dmy}} | Composer | | ||
Alfred Korzybski
| {{flag|Russian Empire}} | {{dts|1879|07|03|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|03|01|format=dmy}} | Engineer and founder of Institute of General Semantics | Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics | ||
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
| {{flag|Russia}} | {{dts|1887|02|11|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|12|28|format=dmy}} | Writer | | ||
Harold Laski
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1893|06|30|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|03|24|format=dmy}} | Political theorist, economist | A Grammar of Politics | ||
Harry Lauder
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1870|08|04|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|02|26|format=dmy}} | Comedian, Singer/songwriter | ||
Lilian Sophia Locke
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1869|6|6|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|7|1|format=dmy}} | Suffragette & Trade-unionist | Secretary of the United Council for Woman's Suffrage, 1890s | ||
Heinrich Mann
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1871|03|27|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|03|11|format=dmy}} | Writer | ||
Edgar Lee Masters
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1868|08|23|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|03|05|format=dmy}} | Writer | ||
F. O. Matthiessen
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1902|02|19|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|04|01|format=dmy}} | literary critic | American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman | ||
Marcel Mauss
| {{flag|France}} | {{dts|1872|05|10|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|02|10|format=dmy}} | Sociologist | The Gift | ||
Ernest John Moeran
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1894|12|31|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|12|01|format=dmy}} | Composer | | ||
Alfred Edward Moffat
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1863|12|04|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|06|06|format=dmy}} | Composer, collector of music | Meister-Schule der alten Zeit | ||
Edna St Vincent Millay
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1892|02|22|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|10|19|format=dmy}} | Poet, playwright | ||
Ali Moustafa Mosharafa
| {{flag|Egypt}} | {{dts|1898|07|11|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|01|16|format=dmy}} | Theoretical physicist | | ||
Lewis Muir
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1881 | |format=dmy}}
| {{dts|1950|01|19|format=dmy}} | Songwriter | |
Pavel Muratov
| {{flag|Russia}} | {{dts|1881|03|03|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|02|05|format=dmy}} | Writer, art historian | Images of Italy | ||
Nikolai Myaskovsky
| {{flag|Russia}} | {{dts|1881|04|20|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|08|08|format=dmy}} | Composer | ||
Vaslav Nijinsky
| {{flag|Russia}} | {{dts|1889|3|12|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|4|8|format=dmy}} | Ballet dancer and choreographer | Diary | ||
George Orwell
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1903|06|25|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|01|21|format=dmy}} | Journalist and author | Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four also see George Orwell bibliography | ||
Cesare Pavese
| {{flag|Italy}} | {{dts|1908|09|09|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|08|27|format=dmy}} | Writer, translator | ||
Max Pemberton
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1863|06|19|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|02|22|format=dmy}} | Novelist of adventure and mystery literature | | ||
Octávio Pinto
| {{flag|Brazil}} | {{dts|1890|11|03|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1944|10|31|format=dmy}} | Composer, architect | | ||
Ernest Poole
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1880|01|23|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|01|10|format=dmy}} | Writer | His Family | ||
Gustaf John Ramstedt
| {{flag|Russian Empire}} | {{dts|1873|10|22|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|11|25|format=dmy}} | Explorer, linguist, diplomat | Seitsemän retkeä itään | ||
R. R. Ryan
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1882|12|14|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|10|18|format=dmy}} | Author | | ||
Eliel Saarinen
| {{flag|Russian Empire}} | {{dts|1873|08|20|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|07|01|format=dmy}} | Architect | Works | ||
Rafael Sabatini
| {{flag|Italy|1861}} | {{dts|1875|04|29|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|02|13|format=dmy}} | Writer | The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, The Odissey of Captain Blood, Bellarion the Fortunate | ||
Theophrastos Sakellaridis
| {{flag|Greece}} | {{dts|1883|09|07|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|01|02|format=dmy}} | Composer, conductor | Ο Βαφτιστικός | ||
Guðjón Samúelsson
| {{flag|Iceland}} | {{dts|1887|04|16|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|04|25|format=dmy}} | Architect | Hallgrímskirkja, National Theatre of Iceland, Akureyrarkirkja | ||
Joseph Schumpeter
| {{flag|Austria}} | {{dts|1883|02|08|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|01|08|format=dmy}} | Economist | ||
Milton Schwarzwald
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1891|09|16|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|03|02|format=dmy}} | Director, composer | | ||
George Bernard Shaw
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1856|07|26|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|11|02|format=dmy}} | Writer | ||
Adaline Shepherd
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1883|08|19|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|03|12|format=dmy}} | Composer | | ||
Forrest Shreve
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1878|07|08|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|07|19|format=dmy}} | Botanist | Works | ||
Martinus Sieveking
| {{flag|Netherlands}} | {{dts|1867|03|24|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|11|26|format=dmy}} | Composer, music teacher | | ||
Jan Smuts
| {{flag|South Africa}} | {{dts|1870|05|24|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|09|11|format=dmy}} | Statesman, military leader, and philosopher | ||
John M. Stahl
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1886|01|21|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|01|12|format=dmy}} | Film Director and Producer | Father Was a Fullback | ||
Olaf Stapledon
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1886|05|10|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|09|06|format=dmy}} | Philosopher and science fiction author | Star Maker, Last and First Men and Odd John | ||
Henry L. Stimson
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1867|09|21|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|10|20|format=dmy}} | Politician | Democracy And Nationalism In Europe | ||
Tatiana Sukhotina-Tolstaya
| {{flag|Russia}} | {{dts|1864|10|4|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|9|21|format=dmy}} | Painter and memoirist | | ||
Attilio Teruzzi
| {{flag|Italy}} | {{dts|1882|5|5|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|4|26|format=dmy}} | Politician | Cirenaica Verde | ||
Trilussa
| {{flag|Italy}} | {{dts|1871|10|26|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|12|21|format=dmy}} | Poet | Works | ||
Orhan Veli Kanık
| {{flag|Turkey}} | {{dts|1914|04|14|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|11|14|format=dmy}} | Poet | Garip, Collected Poems | ||
Xavier Villaurrutia
| {{flag|Mexico}} | {{dts|1903|3|27|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|12|25|format=dmy}} | Poet, Playwright | Works | ||
Archibald P. Wavell
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1883|05|05|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|05|24|format=dmy}} | General | Generals And Generalship | ||
Kurt Weill
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1900|3|2|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|4|3|format=dmy}} | Composer | ||
Yi Gwangsu
| {{flag|South Korea}} | {{dts|1892|02|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|10|25|format=dmy}} | Writer, independence activist | Heartless |
Entering the public domain in countries with life + 80 years
Spain (for creators that died before 1987), Colombia and Equatorial Guinea have a copyright term of life + 80 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes one notable work that entered the public domain on 1 January 2021 for each creator.
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|+List of authors !Names !Country !Birth !Death !Occupation !Notable work | |
J.-H. Rosny aîné
|{{flag|France}} |{{dts|1856|2|17|format=dmy}} |{{dts|1940|2|11|format=dmy}} |Writer | |
{{interlanguage link|Xerardo Álvarez Limeses|es}}
|{{flag|Spain}} |1871 |1940 |Teacher, writer | | |
Manuel Azaña
|{{flag|Spain}} |1880 |1940 |Politician, political writer, Prime Minister | | |
Julián Besteiro
|{{flag|Spain}} |21 September 1870 |27 September 1940 | | | |
E. F. Benson
|{{flag|United Kingdom}} |{{dts|1867|7|24|format=dmy}} |{{dts|1940|2|29|format=dmy}} |Writer, archaeologist | |
Mikhail Bulgakov
|{{flag|Russia}} |{{dts|1891|5|15|format=dmy}} |{{dts|1940|3|10|format=dmy}} |Writer, playwright, medical doctor | |
{{interlanguage link|Rafael Flores Nieto|es|El Piyayo}}
|{{flag|Spain}} |1 May 1864 |25 November 1940 |Flamenco singer and guitarist | | |
Philip Francis Nowlan
|{{flag|United States}} |{{dts|1888|11|13|format=dmy}} |{{dts|1940|2|1|format=dmy}} |Writer | |
F. Scott Fitzgerald
|{{flag|United States}} |{{dts|1896|09|24|format=dmy}} |{{dts|1940|12|21|format=dmy}} |Novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer |This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night | |
{{interlanguage link|Carlos Gómez Carrera|es}}
|{{flag|Spain}} |1903 or 1907 |28 June 1940 |Cartoonist | | |
{{interlanguage link|Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent|es}}
|{{flag|Spain}} |1884 |1940 |Playwright | |
Louis J. Panella
|{{flag|United States}} |{{dts|1881 | |format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1940|03|03|format=dmy}} |Composer | |
{{interlanguage link|Enrique Peinador|es}}
|{{flag|Spain}} |1880 |1940 |Businessman | | |
{{interlanguage link|Indalecio Varela Lenzano|es}}
|{{flag|Spain}} |1856 |1940 |Musicologist, music critic | | |
María Vinyals
|{{flag|Spain}} |1875 |1940 |Publicist, essayist | |
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 |
Vai. Mu. Kothainayaki Ammal
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1901|12|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1960|02|20|format=dmy}} | Novelist | |
Rajshekhar Basu
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1880|03|16|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1960|04|27|format=dmy}} | Chemist | |
A. Chakravarti
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1880|05|17|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1960|02|10|format=dmy}} | Professor | |
Indira Devi Chaudhurani
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1873|12|29|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1960|08|12|format=dmy}} | Musician | |
Sudhindranath Dutta
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1901|10|30|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1960|06|25|format=dmy}} | Poet, journalist | |
M. Raghava Iyengar
| {{flag|India}} | 1870 | 1960 | Literary scholar | |
Jigar Moradabadi
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1890|04|06|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1960|09|09|format=dmy}} | Poet | Yeh Hai Maikada |
Bal Krishna Sharma Naveen
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1897|12|08|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1960|04|29|format=dmy}} | Poet, journalist, activist | |
Kesari Balakrishna Pillai
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1889|04|23|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1960|12|18|format=dmy}} | Literary critic, journalist | Kesari |
Nathuram Premi
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1881|01|26|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1960|01|30|format=dmy}} | Poet, publisher | |
Navaratna Rama Rao
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1877|05|27|format=dmy}} | 1960 | Political leader, scholar | |
Sushila Samad
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1996|06|07|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1960|12|10|format=dmy}} | Poet, journalist | |
Govind Sakharam Sardesai
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1865|05|17|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1959|11|21|format=dmy}} | Historian | |
Sripada Krishnamurty Sastry
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1866|10|29|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1960|12|29|format=dmy}} | Poet |
Kshitimohan Sen
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1880|12|02|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1960|03|12|format=dmy}} | Professor | |
Acharya Chatursen Shastri
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1891|08|26|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1960|02|02|format=dmy}} | Writer |
Krishnalal Shridharani
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1911|09|16|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1960|07|23|format=dmy}} | Poet, playwright | |
C. J. Thomas
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1918|11|14|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1960|07|14|format=dmy}} | Playwright, academic, artist | |
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, Egypt 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 | |
Abdul Hosein Amini
| {{flag|Iran}} | 1902 | {{dts|1970|07|03|format=dmy}} | Theologian | |
Rita Angus
|{{flag|New Zealand}} |12 March 1908 |25 January 1970 |Painter |Cass | |
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
| {{flag|Israel}} | {{dts|1888|07|17|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|02|17|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Fernando Arbello
| {{flag|Puerto Rico}} | {{dts|1907|05|30|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|07|26|format=dmy}} | Musician | | |
Otto Baecker
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1898|01|07|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|05|22|format=dmy}} | Cinematographer | Gold | |
Archibald Baxter
|{{flag|New Zealand}} |13 December 1881 |10 August 1970 |Socialist, pacifist | |
William Beaudine
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1892|01|15|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|03|18|format=dmy}} | Film director, actor | |
George Blair
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1905|12|06|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|04|19|format=dmy}} | Film Director | | |
R. V. C. Bodley
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1892|03|03|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|05|26|format=dmy}} | Army officer, author | Algeria From Within | |
Louise Bogan
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1897|08|11|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|02|04|format=dmy}} | Poet | Body of This Death | |
Vera Brittain
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1893|12|29|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|03|29|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
William J. Brown
| {{flag|United States}} | | {{dts|1970 | |format=dmy}}
| Architect | |
Mohamed Fadhel Ben Achour
| {{flag|Tunisia}} | {{dts|1909|10|16|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|04|20|format=dmy}} | Theologian | Works | |
Dulce Carman
|{{flag|New Zealand}} |1883 |1970 |Author |Neath the Maori Moon | |
Rudolf Carnap
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1891|05|18|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|09|14|format=dmy}} | Philosopher | Der Logische Aufbau der Welt | |
{{interlanguage link|Émile Coderre|fr}}
| {{flag|Canada}} | {{dts|1893|06|10|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|04|06|format=dmy}} | Poet | Works | |
Charles Cotton (geologist)
|{{flag|New Zealand}} |24 February 1885 |29 June 1970 |Geologist |Geomorphology of New Zealand | |
Mohamed Abdelaziz Djaït
| {{flag|Tunisia}} | 1886 | {{dts|1970|01|05|format=dmy}} | Theologian | Works | |
William Dobell
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1899|09|24|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|05|13|format=dmy}} | Artist | |
Guy Endore
|{{flag|United States}} |{{dts|1901|7|4|format=dmy}} |{{dts|1970|2|12|format=dmy}} |Author, screenwriter | |
E. M. Forster
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1879|01|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|06|07|format=dmy}} | Writer | Works | |
Babbis Friis-Baastad
| {{flag|Norway}} | {{dts|1921|08|21|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|01|10|format=dmy}} | Children's writer | Ikke ta Bamse | |
Erle Stanley Gardner
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1889|07|17|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|03|11|format=dmy}} | Author, lawyer | Perry Mason series of books | |
Maurice Gemayel
| {{flag|Lebanon}} | 1910 | {{dts|1970|10|31|format=dmy}} | Politician | Tripoli and Decentralization | |
L. Wolfe Gilbert
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1886|08|31|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|07|12|format=dmy}} | Songwriter | |
Rube Goldberg
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1883|07|04|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|12|07|format=dmy}} | Cartoonist, News reporter, Sculptor, Engineer | | |
John Gunther
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1901|08|30|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|05|29|format=dmy}} | Author | |
Muhsin al-Hakim
| {{flag|Iraq}} | 1889 | 1970 | Theologian | Minhaj as-Saleheen | |
Alice Hamilton
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1869|02|27|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|09|22|format=dmy}} | Physician, research scientist | |
Lawren Harris
| {{flag|Canada}} | {{dts|1885|10|23|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|01|29|format=dmy}} | Painter | | |
Marlen Haushofer
| {{flag|Austria}} | {{dts|1920|04|11|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|03|21|format=dmy}} | Writer | | |
Erich Heckel
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1883|07|31|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|01|27|format=dmy}} | Artist | Roquairol | |
Jimi Hendrix
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1942|11|27|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|09|18|format=dmy}} | Musician, singer-songwriter | "Purple Haze" | |
Roman Ingarden
| {{flag|Poland}} | {{dts|1893|02|05|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|06|14|format=dmy}} | Philosopher | The Literary Work of Art | |
Michał Kalecki
| {{flag|Poland}} | {{dts|1899|06|22|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|04|18|format=dmy}} | Economist | Próba teorii koniunktury | |
William Archibald Mackintosh
| {{flag|Canada}} | {{dts|1895|05|21|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|12|29|format=dmy}} | Economist | Economic Problems Of The Prairie Provinces | |
Leopoldo Marechal
| {{flag|Argentina}} | {{dts|1900|06|11|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|06|26|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
François Mauriac
| {{flag|France}} | {{dts|1885|10|11|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|09|01|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Bruce McLaren
|{{flag|New Zealand}} |30 August 1937 |2 June 1970 |Racing car driver | |
Yukio Mishima
| {{flag|Japan}} | {{dts|1925|1|14|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|11|25|format=dmy}} | Novelist, playwright, poet, writer, essayist, critic | Works | |
Gamal Abdel Nasser
| {{flag|Egypt}} | {{dts|1918|1|15|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|9|28|format=dmy}} | Politician | Philosophy of Revolution | |
Charles Olson
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1910|12|27|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|01|10|format=dmy}} | Poet | Works | |
John Dos Passos
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1896|01|14|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|09|28|format=dmy}} | Novelist | |
Waldo Peirce
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1884|12|17|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|03|08|format=dmy}} | Painter | Legends of the Hudson | |
Vladimir Propp
| {{flag|Russia}} | {{dts|1895|04|29|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|08|22|format=dmy}} | Folklorist | Morphology of the Tale | |
Alf Prøysen
| {{flag|Norway}} | {{dts|1914|07|23|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|11|23|format=dmy}} | Musician, Writer, Composer | Works | |
Erich Maria Remarque
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1898|06|22|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|09|25|format=dmy}} | Novelist | |
Ali Riahi
| {{flag|Tunisia}} | {{dts|1912|03|30|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|03|27|format=dmy}} | Musician | | |
Gonzalo Roig
| {{flag|Cuba}} | {{dts|1890|07|20|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|06|13|format=dmy}} | Composer | |
Mark Rothko
|{{flag|United States}} |25 September 1903 |25 February 1970 |Abstract painter | |
Bertrand Russell
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1872|05|18|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|02|02|format=dmy}} | Philosopher, mathematician | |
Nelly Sachs
| {{flag|German Empire}} | {{dts|1891|10|10|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|05|12|format=dmy}} | Poet, Writer | Works | |
Ruth Sawyer
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1880|08|05|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|06|03|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Slim Harpo
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1924|01|11|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|01|31|format=dmy}} | Blues Musician | |
William Stewart Wallace
| {{flag|Canada}} | {{dts|1884|06|23|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|03|11|format=dmy}} | Historian | |
Hassan Taqizadeh
| {{flag|Iran}} | {{dts|1878|09|27|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|01|28|format=dmy}} | Politician | Old Iranian Calendars | |
Sophie Treadwell
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1885|10|03|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|02|20|format=dmy}} | Playwright | Machinal | |
Jacob Viner
| {{flag|Canada}} | {{dts|1892|05|03|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|09|12|format=dmy}} | Economist | Works | |
Otto Heinrich Warburg
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1883|10|08|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|08|01|format=dmy}} | Physiologist | |
Leonard Wild
|{{flag|New Zealand}} |28 October 1889 |23 July 1970 |Agricultural scientist, writer |An Experiment in Self-government, Soils and Manures in New Zealand | |
Harry M. Woods
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1896|11|04|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|01|14|format=dmy}} | Songwriter | |
Abraham Zapruder
|{{flag|United States}} |15 May 1905 |30 August 1970 |Clothing manufacturer | |
Mahmoud Zulfikar
| {{flag|Egypt}} | {{dts|1914|02|18|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1970|05|22|format=dmy}} | Director | |
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 America and the European Union. However, the change was not made retroactive (unlike the 1995 change in the European Union which brought the works of those who died from 1925 to 1944 back into copyright). 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).
Unpublished works by authors who died in 1950 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}} Any published literary, artistic, dramatic, or musical work (other than computer programs) by a not generally known author (anonymous or pseudonymous) from 1950 also entered the public domain.
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!Names !Country !Birth !Death !Occupation !Notable work |
Cyril Tenison White
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1890|8|17|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|8|16|format=dmy}} | Botanist/Explorer |Made significant contributions to knowledge of the flora of Queensland and northern New South Wales, and was regarded as an authority on tropical plants. |
Erle Cox
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1873|8|17|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|11|20|format=dmy}} | Writer |"Out of the Silence" |
Dame Mary Cook
| {{flag|Australia}} | 1863 | {{dts|1950|9|24|format=dmy}} | Social Work | Vice President of the "War Chest Society" and President of the "Parramatta Branch of the Red Cross Society" |
Frank Brennan
| {{flag|Australia}} | 1873 | {{dts|1950|11|6|format=dmy}} | Politician | Noted Pacifist |
Ted Colson
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1881|6|3|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|2|27|format=dmy}} | Anthropologist | Crossing of the Simpson Desert |
Ian Morrison
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1913|5|13|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|8|12|format=dmy}} | Journalist | "This War against Japan : Thoughts on the Present Conflict in the Far East" 1944 |
Andrew Oswald Wilson
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1866|10|12|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|6|19|format=dmy}} | Architect | Boulder Town Hall |
George Ainsworth
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1878|10|20|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|10|11|format=dmy}} | Meteorologist & photographer | Leader of the Macquarie Island party of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, December 1911 to November 1913 |
Neville William Cayley
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1886|1|7|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|3|17|format=dmy}} | Ornithologist & artist | "What Bird is That?", 1931 |
Lilian Sophia Locke
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1869|6|6|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|7|1|format=dmy}} | Suffragette & Trade-unionist | Secretary of the United Council for Woman's Suffrage, 1890s |
Lancelot de Mole
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1880|3|12|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|5|6|format=dmy}} | Engineer & inventor | Tracked armoured vehicle, 1911 |
Ada May Plante
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1876|10|4|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|7|3|format=dmy}} | Painter | Founding exhibitor at Pioneering Post-Impressionist Melbourne Contemporary Group, 1932 |
Beaumont Smith
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1885|8|15|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|1|2|format=dmy}} | Film director | "Our Friends the Hayseeds", 1917 |
Horace Stevens
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1876|10|27|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|11|18|format=dmy}} | Opera singer | Samuel Coleridge Taylor's "Hiawatha" London premiere, 1924 |
Clas Edvard Friström
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1864|1|26|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|3|27|format=dmy}} | Painter | Exhibited 53 paintings with the Queensland Art Society, 1899-1902 |
Constance Elizabeth Darcy
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1879|6|1|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|4|25|format=dmy}} | Gynaecologist | Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London |
Gustavus Athol Waterhouse
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1877|5|21|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|7|29|format=dmy}} | Entomologist | "The butterflies of Australia", 1914 and "What butterfly is that? A guide to the butterflies of Australia", 1932 |
Alexandrine Seager
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1870|11|10|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|3|12|format=dmy}} | Businessperson | Founded the Cheer-Up Society to provide comfort and entertainment for World War One soldiers |
Ted Theodore
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1884|12|28|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|2|9|format=dmy}} | Politician | State president, Queensland Australian Workers' Union |
Entering the public domain in the United States
{{See also|Public domain in the United States}}
File:The Great Gatsby Cover 1925 Retouched.jpg entered the public domain in the US in 2021.]]
Under the Copyright Term Extension Act,
books published in 1925,
films released in 1925,
and other works published in 1925, entered the public domain in 2021.{{cite web |title=Copyright and the Public Domain |publisher=Public Domain Information Project |url=http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php |accessdate=2019-01-23 |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 1950 entered the public domain.
No sound recordings entered the public domain; under the Music Modernization Act, those published in 1925 will not enter the public domain until 2026.{{cite web |title=Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States |last=Hirtle |first=Peter B. |date=2020-01-03 |url=https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain |accessdate=2020-12-08 |publisher=Cornell University Library Copyright Information Center}} However, all musical compositions published in 1925 entered the public domain in 2021.
Notable books that entered the public domain in 2021 in the United States include The Great Gatsby, Mrs Dalloway, the original German-language version of The Trial, An American Tragedy, The Secret of Chimneys, In Our Time, and Arrowsmith.{{cite web |url=https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2021/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231230451/https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2021/ |title=Public Domain Day 2021 |last=Jenkins |first=Jennifer |website=Center for the Study of the Public Domain |publisher=Duke University |date=December 12, 2020 |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=January 3, 2022 |url-status=live}}
See also
- List of American films of 1925
- List of countries' copyright lengths
- Public Domain Day
- Creative Commons
- Public Domain
- Over 300 public domain authors available in Wikisource (any language), with descriptions from Wikidata
- 1950 in literature, 1960 in literature, 1970 in literature
References
{{Reflist}}
Further reading
- {{citation |url=https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2021/ |title=Public Domain Day 2021 |author=Jennifer Jenkins |publisher=Duke Law School Center for the Study of the Public Domain |location=US |date=December 2020 }}
- {{citation |url=http://blog.archive.org/2020/12/15/1925-public-domain-riches/ |title=January 1st brings public domain riches from 1925 |date= December 15, 2020 |author= Alexis Rossi |work=Archive.org |location=US }}
External links
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- {{cite web |url = http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/abyod/1950.htm |title = Authors by Year of Death - 1950|work = AuthorAndBookInfo.com}}
- [https://www.goodreads.com/book/popular_by_date/1925 Popular Books of 1925] at Goodreads
{{Years in Public Domain}}
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