2025 in public domain
{{Short description|Overview of works entering public domain}}
When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of works is not uniform. The following lists list creators whose works entered the public domain in 2025 under the most common copyright regimes.
Countries with life + 80 years
{{See also|2015_in_public_domain#Entering_the_public_domain_in_Europe|label 1=Works that entered the public domain in countries with life + 70 years in 2015}}
Spain has a copyright term of life + 80 years for creators that died before 1987. In Colombia and Equatorial Guinea, a work enters the public domain 80 years after the creator's death.
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!Names !Country !Birth !Death !Occupation !Notable work |
Joaquín Álvarez Quintero
| {{flag|Spain}} | {{dts|1873|01|20|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1944|06|14|format=dmy}} | Playwright | |
Miguel Asín Palacios
| {{flag|Spain}} | {{dts|1871|07|05|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1944|08|12|format=dmy}} | Scholar | El Islam cristianizado |
Manuel Chaves Nogales
| {{flag|Spain}} | {{dts|1879|08|07|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1944|05|08|format=dmy}} | Writer, journalist | Juan Belmonte, matador de toros; su vida y sus hazañas |
Enrique Díez Canedo
| {{flag|Spain}} | {{dts|1879|01|07|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1944|06|06|format=dmy}} | Poet | |
Francisco Gómez-Jordana Sousa
| {{flag|Spain}} | {{dts|1876|02|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1944|08|03|format=dmy}} | Politician | Milicia y Diplomacia: Diarios Del Conde de Jordana, 1936–1944 |
Elías Mauricio Soto Uribe
| {{flag|Colombia}} | {{dts|1858|09|22|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1944|10|11|format=dmy}} | Instrumentalist | |
Antonio Videgain
| {{flag|Spain}} | {{dts|1869|03|10|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1944|02|09|format=dmy}} | Composer | |
Countries with life + 70 years
{{See also|2005 in public domain#Entered the public domain in countries with life + 50 years|label 1=Works that entered the public domain in countries with life + 50 years in 2005}}
With the exception of Belarus (Life + 50 years) 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.
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!Names !Country !Birth !Death !Occupation !Notable work | |
Alexander Abasheli
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1884|08|27|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|09|27|format=dmy}} | Writer | {{interlanguage link|A Woman in the Mirror|ka|ქალი სარკეში}} | |
Sait Faik Abasıyanık
| {{flag|Turkey}} | {{dts|1906|11|18|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|05|11|format=dmy}} | Writer | Semaver | |
Ahmed Agdamski
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1884|01|05|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|04|01|format=dmy}} | Singer | |
Franco Alfano
| {{flag|Italy}} | {{dts|1875|3|8|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|10|27|format=dmy}} | Composer | |
Juan Álvarez
| {{flag|Argentina}} | {{dts|1878|09|03|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|04|08|format=dmy}} | Historian | Essay on the history of Santa Fe | |
Maximiano Alves
| {{flag|Portugal}} | {{dts|1888|08|22|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|01|22|format=dmy}} | Sculptor | |
Ahmad Amin
| {{flag|Egypt}} | {{dts|1886|10|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|05|30|format=dmy}} | Writer | Dawn of Islam | |
Martin Andersen Nexø
| {{flag|Denmark}} | {{dts|1869|06|26|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|06|01|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Oswald de Andrade
| {{flag|Brazil}} | {{dts|1890|01|11|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|10|22|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Bruno Angoletta
| {{flag|Italy}} | {{dts|1889|09|07|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|01|07|format=dmy}} | Cartoonist | |
Peter van Anrooy
| {{flag|Netherlands}} | {{dts|1879|10|13|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|12|31|format=dmy}} | Composer | Piet Hein Rhapsodie voor symfonieorkest | |
John L. Balderston
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1889|10|22|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|03|08|format=dmy}} | Playwright | |
Lionel Barrymore
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1878|04|28|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|11|15|format=dmy}} | Actor, film director | |
Constantin Beldie
| {{flag|Romania}} | {{dts|1887|09|08|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|06|11|format=dmy}} | Journalist, writer | Gloss on the Bookish Spirit | |
Jacinto Benavente
| {{flag|Spain}} | {{dts|1866|08|12|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|07|14|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Frans G. Bengtsson
| {{flag|Sweden}} | {{dts|1894|10|04|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|12|19|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Maxwell Bodenheim
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1892|05|26|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|02|06|format=dmy}} | novelist, poet, memoirist, journalist. | My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village | |
Hakon Børresen
| {{flag|Denmark}} | {{dts|1876|06|02|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|10|06|format=dmy}} | Composer | |
Vitaliano Brancati
| {{flag|Italy}} | {{dts|1907|07|24|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|09|25|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
{{interlanguage link|Roman Bratkowski|uk|Братковський Роман}}
| {{flag|Ukraine}}/{{flag|Poland}} | {{dts|1869|09|02|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|09|05|format=dmy}} | Painter | Pejzaż zimowy | |
Walter Braunfels
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1882|12|19|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|03|19|format=dmy}} | Composer | |
Pauline Brunius
| {{flag|Sweden}} | {{dts|1881|10|02|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|03|30|format=dmy}} | Actress, film director | |
Claude Cahun
| {{flag|France}} | {{dts|1894|10|25|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|12|08|format=dmy}} | Photographer, writer | |
Robert Capa
| {{flag|Hungary}} | {{dts|1913|10|22|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|05|25|format=dmy}} | Photographer | |
| {{interlanguage link|Enrico Cavacchioli|it}}
|{{flag|Italy}} |{{dts|1885|03|15|format=dmy}} |{{dts|1954|01|04|format=dmy}} | Writer |{{ill|List of works by Enrico Cavacchioli|it|Enrico Cavacchioli#Opere}} | |
Papa Celestin
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1884|01|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|12|15|format=dmy}} | Musician | |
E. K. Chambers
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1866|03|16|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|01|21|format=dmy}} | Literary scholar | The Elizabethan Stage | |
{{interlanguage link|Dmytro Chornovil|uk|Чорновіл Дмитро Семенович}}
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1902|11|07|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|03|08|format=dmy}} | Architect | {{interlanguage link|State Academic Music Drama Theatre in Vinnytsia|uk|Вінницький обласний академічний український музично-драматичний театр імені Миколи Садовського}} | |
Eugen Coca
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1893|04|15|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|01|09|format=dmy}} | Composer | Maria's Fortune | |
Colette
| {{flag|France}} | {{dts|1873|01|28|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|08|03|format=dmy}} | Writer | Gigi | |
Julian Coolidge
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1873|09|28|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|03|05|format=dmy}} | Mathematician | |
Duff Cooper
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1890|02|22|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|01|01|format=dmy}} | Politician, historian | |
Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha
| {{flag|Portugal}} | {{dts|1869|10|13|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|11|23|format=dmy}} | Socialite | Doida, Não! | |
Stig Dagerman
| {{flag|Sweden}} | {{dts|1923|10|05|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|11|04|format=dmy}} | Writer, journalist | |
Jibanananda Das
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1899|02|17|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|10|22|format=dmy}} | Poet | |
Ludovic Dauș
| {{flag|Romania}} | {{dts|1873|10|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|11|17|format=dmy}} | Writer, translator | Unto Death | |
Russell Davenport
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1899 | |format=dmy}}
| {{dts|1954|04|19|format=dmy}} | Writer | My Country, A Poem of America |
Alcide De Gasperi
| {{flag|Italy}} | {{dts|1881|04|03|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|08|19|format=dmy}} | Politician | Nella lotta per la democrazia | |
{{interlanguage link|Danylo Demutskyi|uk|Демуцький Данило Порфирович}}
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1893|07|16|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|05|07|format=dmy}} | Photographer, camera operator | Earth | |
André Derain
| {{flag|France}} | {{dts|1880|06|10|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|09|08|format=dmy}} | Painter, sculptor | |
Leonard Eugene Dickson
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1874|01|22|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|01|17|format=dmy}} | Mathematician, writer | |
Nadiya Dobrovolska-Zavadska
| {{flag|Russian Empire}}/{{flag|France}} | {{dts|1878|09|25|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|10|31|format=dmy}} | Geneticist | Sur la mortification spontanée de la queue chez la souris nouveau-née et sur l'existence d'un caractère (facteur) héréditaire "non-viable" | |
Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski
| {{flag|Poland}} | {{dts|1872|06|06|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|04|27|format=dmy}} | Geophysicist | Historia naturalna lodu | |
{{interlanguage link|Oles Donchenko|uk|Донченко Олесь Васильович}}
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1902|08|19|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|04|12|format=dmy}} | Writer | Star Fortress | |
Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin
| {{flag|Ireland}}/{{flag|South Africa}} | {{dts|1874|05|17|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|08|25|format=dmy}} | Photographer | | |
Carl Eldh
| {{flag|Sweden}} | {{dts|1873|05|10|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|01|26|format=dmy}} | Sculptor | |
Enrico Fermi
| {{flag|Italy}}/{{flag|USA}} | {{dts|1901|09|29|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|11|28|format=dmy}} | Physicist | |
Arthur Fickenscher
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1885|03|09|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|04|15|format=dmy}} | Composer and academic | Willowwood | |
Bud Fisher
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1885|04|03|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|09|07|format=dmy}} | Cartoonist | |
{{ill|Constantin Font|fr}}
| {{flag|France}} | {{dts|1890|01|11|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|01|25|format=dmy}} | Painter | | |
Miles Franklin
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1879|10|14|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|09|19|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Wilhelm Furtwängler
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1886|01|25|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|11|30|format=dmy}} | Conductor, composer | |
Jacques Gachot
| {{flag|Germany}}/{{flag|France}} | {{dts|1885|01|11|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|12|15|format=dmy}} | Painter | |
Nina Genke-Meller
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1893|03|19|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|08|25|format=dmy}} | Painter | Suprematist Composition | |
E. Ray Goetz
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1886|06|12|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|06|12|format=dmy}} | Composer, lyricist | |
Lil Green
|{{flag|United States}} |22 December 1901 |14 April 1954 |Singer, songwriter |"Why Don't You Do Right?", "Romance in the Dark" | |
W. J. Gruffydd
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1881|02|14|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|09|29|format=dmy}} | Writer, scholar | Lyrics | |
Heinz Guderian
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1888|06|17|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|05|14|format=dmy}} | Military officer, writer | |
Niqula Haddad
| {{flag|Lebanon}} | 1878 | 1954 | Writer | | |
Thea von Harbou
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1888|12|27|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|07|01|format=dmy}} | Writer, film director | |
Jack Harvey
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1881|09|16|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|11|09|format=dmy}} | Film director | |
Ferenc Herczeg
| {{flag|Hungary}} | {{dts|1863|09|22|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|02|24|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
James Hilton
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1900|09|09|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|12|20|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Ludwik Hirszfeld
| {{flag|Poland}} | {{dts|1884|08|05|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|03|07|format=dmy}} | Microbiologist | Über Vererbung gruppenspezifischer Strukturen des Blutes | |
Earnest Hooton
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1887|11|20|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|05|03|format=dmy}} | Anthropologist, cartoonist | Up From The Ape | |
{{interlanguage link|Ostap Hrytsai|uk|Остап Грицай}}
| {{flag|Ukraine}}/{{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1881|11|02|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|05|07|format=dmy}} | Writer, translator | The Escape of Oleksa Perkhun | |
Raymond Hubbell
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1879|06|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|12|13|format=dmy}} | Composer, lyricist | "Poor Butterfly" | |
Ivan Ilyin
| {{flag|Russian Empire}}/{{flag|Switzerland}} | {{dts|1883|04|09|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|12|21|format=dmy}} | Philosopher | {{interlanguage link|Resistance to Evil By Force|ru|О сопротивлении злу силою}} | |
Charles Ives
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1874|10|20|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|05|19|format=dmy}} | Composer | |
Ayaz İshaki
| {{flag|Russian Empire}}/{{flag|Turkey}} | {{dts|1878|02|22|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|07|22|format=dmy}} | Writer | {{interlanguage link|Mullah's Wife|tt|Остазбикә (әсәр)}} | |
Norbert Jacques
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1880|06|06|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|05|15|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Hans Janowitz
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1890|12|02|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|05|25|format=dmy}} | Screenwriter | |
Arthur Johnston
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1898|01|10|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|05|01|format=dmy}} | Composer | |
Frida Kahlo
| {{flag|Mexico}} | {{dts|1907|07|06|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|07|13|format=dmy}} | Painter | |
Mikhas Klimkovich
| {{flag|Belarus}} | {{dts|1899|11|20|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|11|05|format=dmy}} | Poet | "My Belarusy" | |
Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius
| {{flag|Lithuania}} | {{dts|1882|10|19|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|07|17|format=dmy}} | Writer, politician | |
Kalki Krishnamurthy
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1899|09|09|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|12|05|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
{{interlanguage link|Zygmunt Kurczyński|pl}}
| {{flag|Poland}} | {{dts|1886|04|02|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|03|11|format=dmy}} | Sculptor | Grave of Tadeusz Rutowski | |
Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels
| {{flag|Austria}} | {{dts|1874|09|17|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|04|20|format=dmy}} | Political theorist | Ostara | |
Henri Laurens
| {{flag|France}} | {{dts|1885|02|18|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|05|05|format=dmy}} | Sculptor | |
Alphonse Laverrière
| {{flag|Switzerland}} | {{dts|1872|05|16|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|03|11|format=dmy}} | Architect | |
Édouard Le Roy
| {{flag|France}} | {{dts|1870|06|18|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|11|10|format=dmy}} | Philosopher, mathematician | Les Origines humaines et l'évolution de l'intelligence | |
Alain LeRoy Locke
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1885|09|13|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|06|09|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Pyotr Leshchenko
| {{flag|Russian Empire}}/{{flag|Romania}} | {{dts|1898|06|14|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|07|16|format=dmy}} | Singer | Heart | |
Achille Longo
|{{flag|Italy}} |{{dts|1900|03|28|format=dmy}} |{{dts|1954|05|28|format=dmy}} | Composer | |
Gino Loria
|{{flag|Italy}} |{{dts|1862|05|19|format=dmy}} |{{dts|1954|01|30|format=dmy}} | Mathematician | |
Auguste Lumière
| {{flag|France}} | {{dts|1862|10|19|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|04|10|format=dmy}} | Film director | |
Wincenty Lutosławski
| {{flag|Poland}} | {{dts|1863|06|06|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|12|28|format=dmy}} | Philosopher | The Polish Nation | |
Jan Maklakiewicz
| {{flag|Poland}} | {{dts|1899|11|24|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|02|08|format=dmy}} | Composer | Cagliostro in Warsaw | |
{{interlanguage link|Ivan Malozyomov|uk|Малозьомов Іван Іванович}}
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1899|10|08|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|11|19|format=dmy}} | Architect | Interiors of Derzhprom | |
William March
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1893|09|18|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|05|15|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Henri Matisse
| {{flag|France}} | {{dts|1869|12|31|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|11|03|format=dmy}} | Painter, sculptor | |
Joe May
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1880|11|07|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|04|29|format=dmy}} | Film director | |
George McManus
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1884|01|23|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|10|22|format=dmy}} | Cartoonist | |
Emilis Melngailis
| {{flag|Latvia}}/{{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1874|02|15|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|12|10|format=dmy}} | Composer | |
Mihri Müşfik Hanım
| {{flag|Turkey}} | {{dts|1886|02|26|format=dmy}} | 1954 | Painter | | |
Zofia Nałkowska
| {{flag|Poland}} | {{dts|1884|11|10|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|12|17|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Herms Niel
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1888|04|17|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|07|16|format=dmy}} | Composer | "Erika" | |
Aleksandr Orlov
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1880|04|06|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|01|28|format=dmy}} | Astronomer | Selected works in 3 volumes | |
Yukio Ozaki
| {{flag|Japan}} | {{dts|1858|12|24|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|10|06|format=dmy}} | Politician | The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan | |
Auguste Perret
| {{flag|France}} | {{dts|1874|02|12|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|02|25|format=dmy}} | Architect | |
Washington Phillips
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1880|01|11|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|09|20|format=dmy}} | Singer | |
Dimitrie Pompeiu
| {{flag|Romania}} | {{dts|1873|10|04|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|10|08|format=dmy}} | Mathematician | Sur la continuité des fonctions de variables complexes | |
Fred Raymond
| {{flag|Austria}} | {{dts|1900|04|20|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|01|10|format=dmy}} | Composer | |
{{interlanguage link|Yuri Repin|fr|Iouri Repine}}
| {{flag|Russian Empire}}/{{flag|Finland}} | {{dts|1877|04|10|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|08|09|format=dmy}} | Painter | Tyurenchen. Eternal life in a glorious death | |
Grantland Rice
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1880|11|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|07|13|format=dmy}} | Sportswriter | Songs of the Stalwart | |
Fred Rose
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1898|08|24|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|12|01|format=dmy}} | Songwriter | |
Leon Schiller
| {{flag|Poland}} | {{dts|1887|03|14|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|03|25|format=dmy}} | Screenwriter | {{interlanguage link|Pastorale (play)|pl|Pastorałka (misterium)}} | |
{{interlanguage link|Dmytro Sheludko|de|Dimitri Scheludko}}
| {{flag|Ukraine}}/{{flag|Bulgaria}} | {{dts|1892|09|21|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|08|05|format=dmy}} | Diplomat, literary scientist | Zur Geschichte des Natureinganges bei den Trobadors | |
C. Fox Smith
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1882|02|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|04|08|format=dmy}} | Writer | All the Way Round: Sea Roads to Africa | |
Oscar Straus
| {{flag|Austria}} | {{dts|1870|03|06|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|01|11|format=dmy}} | Composer | |
Ionel Teodoreanu
| {{flag|Romania}} | {{dts|1897|01|06|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|02|03|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Lucien Tesnière
| {{flag|France}} | {{dts|1893|05|13|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|12|06|format=dmy}} | Linguist | Elements of Structural Syntax | |
Jan Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz
| {{flag|Ukraine}}/{{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1885|06|24|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|11|18|format=dmy}} | Diplomat, heraldist | Diariy Getmana Pylypa Orlika | |
Alan Turing
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1912|06|23|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|06|07|format=dmy}} | Mathematician | |
William Van Alen
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1883|08|10|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|05|24|format=dmy}} | Architect | |
Getúlio Vargas
| {{flag|Brazil}} | {{dts|1882|04|19|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|08|24|format=dmy}} | Politician | |
Dziga Vertov
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1896|01|02|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|02|12|format=dmy}} | Film director | |
{{ill|Adrien Voisard-Margerie|fr}}
| {{flag|France}} | {{dts|1867|04|28|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|07|20|format=dmy}} | Painter | |
{{interlanguage link|Mykhailo Vozniak|de|Mychajlo Wosnjak}}
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1881|10|03|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|11|20|format=dmy}} | Literary scholar | History of Ukrainian literature | |
Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1882|10|12|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|06|14|format=dmy}} | Composer | |
Clara Westhoff
| {{flag|Germany}} | {{dts|1878|09|21|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|03|09|format=dmy}} | Sculptor | Bust of Paula Modersohn-Becker | |
Eduard Wiiralt
| {{flag|Estonia}} | {{dts|1898|03|20|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|01|08|format=dmy}} | Graphic artist | Hell | |
Chester Wilmot
| {{flag|Australia}} | {{dts|1911|06|21|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|01|10|format=dmy}} | War Correspondent | The Struggle for Europe | |
Hella Wuolijoki
| {{flag|Finland}} | {{dts|1886|07|22|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|02|02|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
{{interlanguage link|Yuriy Yanovskyi|de|Jurij Janowskyj}}
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1902|08|27|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|02|25|format=dmy}} | Writer | {{interlanguage link|The Horseriders|uk|Вершники (роман)}} | |
Francis Brett Young
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1884|06|29|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1954|03|28|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Zhang Shichuan
| {{flag|China}} | 1890 | 1954 | Film director |
Countries with life + 60 years
{{see also|2025 in Indian public domain}}
In Bangladesh, Haiti, 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 |
Dr. Atl
| {{flag|Mexico}} | {{dts|1875|10|3|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1964|08|15|format=dmy}} | Painter, writer | |
Fernando Leal
| {{flag|Mexico}} | {{dts|1896|2|26|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1964|10|7|format=dmy}} | Painter, muralist, lithographer, engraver | |
Bharathidasan
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1891|04|29|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1964|04|21|format=dmy}} | Poet |
Birinchi Kumar Barua
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1908|10|16|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1964|03|30|format=dmy}} | Scholar, writer | |
Carlos Brandt
| {{flag|Venezuela}} | {{dts|1875|10|11|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1964|02|27|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Guru Dutt
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1925|07|09|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1964|10|10|format=dmy}} | Film director | Pyaasa |
Mushtaq Hussain Khan
| {{flag|India}} | 1878 | {{dts|1964|08|13|format=dmy}} | Musician | |
Jawaharlal Nehru
| {{flag|India}} | {{dts|1889|11|14|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1964|05|27|format=dmy}} | Politician |
Countries with life + 50 years
In most countries of Africa and Asia, as well as Belarus, Bolivia and New Zealand, a work enters the public domain 50 years after the creator's death.
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!Names !Country !Birth !Death !Occupation !Notable work |
Jean Absil
| {{flag|Belgium}} | {{dts|1893|10|23|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|02|02|format=dmy}} | Composer | |
Gilbert Archey
| {{flag|New Zealand}} | {{dts|1890|08|04|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|10|20|format=dmy}} | Zoologist | The Moa, a Study of the Dinornithiformes |
Miguel Ángel Asturias
| {{flag|Guatemala}} |{{dts|1899|10|19|format=dmy}} |{{dts|1974|06|09|format=dmy}} | Poet-diplomat |
Farid al-Atrash
| {{flag|Egypt}} | 1917 | {{dts|1974|12|26|format=dmy}} | Composer | |
Kurt Atterberg
| {{flag|Sweden}} | {{dts|1887|12|12|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|02|15|format=dmy}} | Composer |
H. E. Bates
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1905|05|16|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|01|29|format=dmy}} | Writer |
Erick Berry
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1892|01|04|format=dmy}} | February 1974 | Writer |
Bobby Bloom
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1946|01|15|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|02|28|format=dmy}} | Singer-songwriter | "Montego Bay" |
Hector Bolitho
| {{flag|New Zealand}} | {{dts|1897|05|28|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|09|12|format=dmy}} | Writer | Albert the Good and the Victorian Reign |
Buddhadeb Bosu
| {{flag|Bangladesh}} | 1908 | 1974 | Writer | |
Rosario Castellanos
| {{flag|Mexico}} | {{dts|1925|05|25|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|08|07|format=dmy}} | Poet, novelist | The Nine Guardians |
Nellie Coad
| {{flag|New Zealand}} | {{dts|1883|10|15|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|09|06|format=dmy}} | Teacher, writer | |
Phillis Emily Cunnington
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1887|11|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|10|24|format=dmy}} | Physician, historian | Handbook of English Mediaeval Costume |
Maurice Duggan
| {{flag|New Zealand}} | {{dts|1922|11|25|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|12|11|format=dmy}} | Writer | Summer in the Gravel Pit |
Duke Ellington
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1899|04|29|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|05|24|format=dmy}} | Composer |
Julius Evola
| {{flag|Italy}} | {{dts|1898|05|19|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|06|11|format=dmy}} | Philosopher |
Allal al-Fassi
| {{flag|Morocco}} |{{dts|1910|01|10|format=dmy}} |{{dts|1974|05|13|format=dmy}} | Writer | The Independence Movements in Arab North Africa |
Dorothy Fields
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1904|07|15|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|03|28|format=dmy}} | Film lyricist |
Louise Fitzhugh
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1928|10|05|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|11|19|format=dmy}} | Writer |
Georgette Heyer
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1902|08|16|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|07|04|format=dmy}} | Writer |
Ali Ismael
| {{flag|Egypt}} |{{dts|1922|12|28|format=dmy}} |{{dts|1974|06|16|format=dmy}} | Composer | Fida'i |
Marie Luise Kaschnitz
| {{flag|Germany}} |{{dts|1901|01|31|format=dmy}} |{{dts|1974|10|10|format=dmy}} | Writer | Menschen und Dinge 1945 |
Erich Kästner
| {{flag|Germany}} |{{dts|1899|02|23|format=dmy}} |{{dts|1974|07|29|format=dmy}} | Poet, screenwriter |
Muhammad Ayub Khan
| {{flag|Pakistan}} |{{dts|1907|05|14|format=dmy}} |{{dts|1974|04|19|format=dmy}} | Politician | Books |
Pär Lagerkvist
| {{flag|Sweden}} | {{dts|1891|05|23|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|07|11|format=dmy}} | Writer | Barabbas |
Eve Langley
| {{flag|New Zealand}} | {{dts|1904|09|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|06|01|format=dmy}} | Writer |
Charles Lindbergh
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1902|02|04|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|08|26|format=dmy}} | Aviator, writer |
Eric Linklater
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1899|03|08|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|11|07|format=dmy}} | Writer, poet |
Walter Lippmann
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1889|09|23|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|12|14|format=dmy}} | Writer |
Margaret MacPherson
| {{flag|New Zealand}} | {{dts|1895|06|19|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|09|14|format=dmy}} | Writer, journalist | A Symposium Against War |
P. Schuyler Miller
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1912|02|21|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|10|13|format=dmy}} | Writer | |
Henry de Monfreid
| {{flag|France}} | {{dts|1879|11|14|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|12|13|format=dmy}} | Adventurer, writer | Secrets of the Red Sea |
Stanley Mullen
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1911|06|20|format=dmy}} | 1974 | Artist, writer |
Leslie Munro
| {{flag|New Zealand}} | {{dts|1901|02|26|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|02|13|format=dmy}} | Politician, writer | United Nations: hope for a divided world |
Douglas Robb
| {{flag|New Zealand}} | 1899 | 1974 | Physician, writer | Medical Odyssey |
David Alfaro Siqueiros
| {{flag|Mexico}} | {{dts|1896|12|29|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|01|06|format=dmy}} | Painter, muralist | Portrait of the Bourgeoisie (1939–1940), The March of Humanity (1957–1971) |
William Sloane
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1906|08|15|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|09|25|format=dmy}} | Writer | To Walk the Night |
Zaharia Stancu
| {{flag|Romania}} | {{dts|1902|10|07|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|12|05|format=dmy}} | Writer |
Sheila Stuart
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | 1892 | 1974 | Writer | Alison's Highland Holiday |
Jacqueline Susann
| {{flag|United States}} | {{dts|1918|08|20|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|09|21|format=dmy}} | Writer |
Sándor Szathmári
| {{flag|Hungary}} | {{dts|1897|06|29|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|07|16|format=dmy}} | Writer, mechanical engineer |
Whanki Kim
| {{flag|South Korea}} | {{dts|1913|04|03|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|07|25|format=dmy}} | Painter | What Form, Shall We Meet Again? (어디서 무엇이 되어 다시 만나랴) |
Robert Charles Zaehner
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} | {{dts|1913|04|08|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1974|11|24|format=dmy}} | Scholar | Zurvan, Mysticism, Our Savage God |
Russia
{{See also|Copyright law of Russia}}
Russia has a copyright term of life + 70 years in general, with two special provisions:
- extra 4 years for those who fought in or worked during the so-called Great Patriotic War in 1941–1945, and/or
- copyright term starting from the date of rehabilitation for unlawfully prosecuted and posthumously rehabilitated.
1954 marks the first large wave of posthumous rehabilitations.
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!Names !Country !Birth !Death !Occupation !Notable work |
Pavel Bazhov
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1879|01|27|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|12|03|format=dmy}} | Writer |
Yustin Djanelidze
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1883|08|01|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|01|14|format=dmy}} | Doctor | A case of the repair of an injury of the ascending aorta |
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1887|02|11|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|12|28|format=dmy}} | Writer |
Andrey Kryachkov
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1876|11|24|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|08|25|format=dmy}} | Architect |
Nikolai Luzin
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1883|12|09|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|02|28|format=dmy}} | Mathematician |
Nikolai Myaskovsky
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1881|04|20|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|08|08|format=dmy}} | Composer |
Antonina Nezhdanova
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1873|06|16|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|06|26|format=dmy}} | Singer | Vocalise |
{{interlanguage link|Vladimir Sorin|de|Wladimir Gordejewitsch Sorin}}
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1893}} | {{dts|1944|10|format=dmy}} | Historian | Lenin in the Brest days |
Viktor Vesnin
| {{flag|Soviet Union}} | {{dts|1882|04|09|format=dmy}} | {{dts|1950|09|17|format=dmy}} | Architect | Palace of Culture of the Proletarsky district, Moscow |
Australia and Canada
{{See also|Copyright law of Australia|Copyright law of Canada}}
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 (British and possibly other) 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).{{cite web |title=How long does copyright last? |url=https://www.library.gov.au/research/access-collection/copyright-library-collections/how-long-does-copyright-last |access-date=19 December 2024 |website=National Library of Australia |archive-date=20 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241220023947/https://www.library.gov.au/research/access-collection/copyright-library-collections/how-long-does-copyright-last |url-status=live }}
Similarly, Canada amended its Copyright Act in 2022 from a "plus 50" law to a "plus 70" law, coming into force on December 30, 2022, but does not revive expired copyright.{{cite web |url=https://parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-19/royal-assent |title=An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on April 7, 2022 and other measures |author= |date=2022-06-23 |publisher=Parliament of Canada |access-date=2022-11-28 |archive-date=2023-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101194325/https://parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-19/royal-assent |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.php?attach=42842 |title=PC Number: 2022-1219 |author= |date=2022-11-17 |publisher=Government of Canada |access-date=2022-11-28 |archive-date=2022-11-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128095404/https://orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.php?attach=42842 |url-status=live }} No more new Canadian authors will come out of copyright until 1 January 2043 (those who died in 1972). Crown copyright was not changed, thus any government works published in 1974 entered the public domain in 2025.{{cite web |title=Crown Copyright - FAQ |url=https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/copyright-droits-FAQ-eng.htm |website=Government of Canada |publisher=www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca |access-date=13 March 2024 |archive-date=7 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207120516/https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/copyright-droits-FAQ-eng.htm |url-status=live }}
United States
{{See also|Public domain in the United States}}
File:Duke Law - Public Domain Day 2025 Preview.webm
File:Tintin and Snowy from Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1929).jpg (seen here with his dog Snowy) was among the characters who entered the public domain in the United States in 2025.]]
Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books and other works published in 1929 and films released in 1929 entered the public domain in 2025.{{cite web |title=Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States |publisher=Cornell University Library Copyright Information Center |last=Hirtle |first=Peter B. |url=https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain |date=3 January 2020 |access-date=17 December 2020 |archive-date=11 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911204703/https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Copyright and the Public Domain |publisher=Public Domain Information Project |url=http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php |access-date=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 }} Sound recordings that were published in 1924 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1954 also entered the public domain. The character Captain Easy, Popeye the Sailor Man, Disney's Horace Horsecollar, and Hergé's Tintin entered the public domain through their respective debut appearances in 2025.{{Cite web |date=2021-03-26 |title=Eat Your Spinach with a Side of Public Domain |url=https://www.harriscountylawlibrary.org/ex-libris-juris/2021/3/26/eat-your-spinach-with-a-side-of-public-domain |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326183536/https://www.harriscountylawlibrary.org/ex-libris-juris/2021/3/26/eat-your-spinach-with-a-side-of-public-domain |archive-date=2021-03-26 |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library |language=en-US}}{{Efn|Tintin was not published in the United States until 1959; therefore, the American localization of his character will remain under copyright until 2055.}} The same happened for the first Tarzan strips illustrated by Hal Foster{{Cite web |date=2023-12-19 |title=Public Domain: Mickey and More in '24 - The Daily Cartoonist |url=https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/12/19/public-domain-mickey-and-more-in-24/ |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=www.dailycartoonist.com |language=en-US}} and for the character Buck Rogers, whose first comic strips also appeared in U.S. newspapers in 1929.
Notable musical works entering the public domain include George Gershwin's composition An American in Paris and the first recordings of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Among the popular songs that entered the public domain in 2025 are "Ain't Misbehavin'", "Can't We Be Friends?", "Honeysuckle Rose", "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan", "Just You, Just Me", "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)", "More Than You Know", "Singin' in the Rain", "Stardust" (the 1929 version with words by Mitchell Parish), "What Is This Thing Called Love?", "With a Song in My Heart", and "Without a Song".
File:The Broadway Melody (Harry Beaumont, 1929).webm, MGM's first musical film and the winner of the second Academy Award for Best Picture, entered the public domain in 2025]]
Among the films that entered public domain in 2025 are the following:
- The Cocoanuts, the first film of the Marx Brothers;
- The Broadway Melody, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first musical film and the first sound film (and second overall film) to win the Academy Award for Best Picture;
- The Hollywood Revue, MGM's second musical film, starring Conrad Nagel and Jack Benny;
- Say It with Songs, the first all-talking film starring Al Jolson;
- Spite Marriage, Buster Keaton's final full-length feature as a director;
- Welcome Danger, Harold Lloyd's first sound film;
- On with the Show!, the first sound film in color;
- Hallelujah, one of the first films with an all-African American cast produced by a major studio;
- The Cock-Eyed World, sequel to 1926's What Price Glory?;
- Show Boat, containing some songs from the 1927 musical;
- Blackmail, Alfred Hitchcock's first sound film and the first British sound film;
- The Black Watch, John Ford's first sound film;
- Dynamite, Cecil B. DeMille's first sound film;
- Eternal Love, John Barrymore's last silent film;
- The Virginian, Gary Cooper's and Victor Fleming's first sound film;
- Where East Is East, Lon Chaney's last collaboration with Tod Browning;
- Atlantic, the first sound film about the Titanic disaster;
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes, the first sound film to star the titular detective;
- Behind That Curtain, the first sound film to star the character Charlie Chan;
- The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu, the first sound film to star the titular Chinese villain;
- Bulldog Drummond, the first sound film to star the character of the same name;
- the first French sound film The Three Masks (Les trois masques);
- the first German sound film Land Without Women (Das Land ohne Frauen);
- Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond);
- G. W. Pabst's Pandora’s Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) and Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen), both starring Louise Brooks;
- Pabst and Arnold Fanck's The White Hell of Pitz Palu (Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü), starring Leni Riefenstahl;
- Drifters, a documentary film about Britain's North Sea herring fishery;
- Un Chien Andalou, directed by Luis Buñuel and cowritten by Salvador Dalí;
- Man Ray's The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice (Les mystères du Château du Dé);
- the Dutch documentary short Rain, directed by Joris Ivens;
- the sound versions of the Mickey Mouse cartoons The Gallopin' Gaucho and Plane Crazy, as well as Mickey's 1929 cartoons, including The Karnival Kid (in which Mickey speaks his first words); and
- Walt Disney's first five Silly Symphony cartoons, including The Skeleton Dance.
File:A Farewell to Arms (1929) cover.jpg by Ernest Hemingway]]
Examples of important literary works entering the public domain include Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms, William Seabrook's novel The Magic Island (the first book to introduce the concept of a zombie). Ellery Queen's detective novel The Roman Hat Mystery, Margery Allingham's detective novel The Crime at Black Dudley, the first English translation of Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front, Alfred Döblin's novel Berlin Alexanderplatz in its original German, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's novel Pather Panchali in its original Bengali, Lynd Ward's wordless novel Gods' Man, William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury, Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest, Edgar Rice Burroughs's novel Tarzan and the Lost Empire, Ruth Plumly Thompson's novel Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, Bertrand Russell's book Marriage and Morals, Patrick Hamilton's play Rope, A. A. Milne's play Toad of Toad Hall, Virginia Woolf's essay A Room of One's Own, Ludwig Wittgenstein's essay Some Remarks on Logical Form and the first part of the 14th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica (full in public domain by 2029).
Important artworks entering the public domain include Salvador Dalí's paintings The Great Masturbator and The Accommodations of Desire, Wassily Kandinsky's painting Upward, Edward Hopper's painting Chop Suey, Kawamura Kiyoo's painting Founding of the Nation, Julio Romero de Torres' painting La Fuensanta, M. C. Escher's print Strada di Scanno, the first design of the Barcelona chair and August Sander's photograph Berlin Coal Carrier and other photographs from his 1929 photobook Face of our Time. The public domain status of René Magritte's painting The Treachery of Images is contentious.{{Update inline|date=January 2025}}{{Cite web |url=https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/#ftnref6 |title=Public Domain Day 2025 | Duke University School of Law |access-date=2025-01-03 |archive-date=2025-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250102101230/https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/#ftnref6 |url-status=live }}
See also
- List of American films of 1929
- 1954 in literature and 1974 in literature for deaths of writers
- Public Domain Day
- Creative Commons
Notes
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References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline}}
- {{cite web |url = http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/abyod/1954.htm |title = Authors by Year of Death – 1954|work = AuthorAndBookInfo.com}}
- [https://www.goodreads.com/book/popular_by_date/1929 Popular Books of 1929] at Goodreads
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