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When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of creators whose works enter the public domain in 2028. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works is not uniform.

Entering the public domain in countries with life + 70 years

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With the exception of Belarus (Life + 50 years) and Spain (which has a copyright term of Life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988), 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 For previously unpublished material, those who publish it first will have the publication rights for 25 years. In addition, several other countries in the world have a limit of 70 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator.

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!Names

!Country

!Birth

!Death

!Occupation

!Notable work

René Auberjonois

| {{flag|Switzerland}}

| {{dts|1872|08|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1957|10|11|format=dmy}}

| Painter

|

Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya

|{{flag|Russian Empire}}
{{flag|Soviet Union}}

|{{dts|1872|02|12|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1957|06|18|format=dmy}}

|Painter

|landscape paintings

André Chevrillon

|{{flag|France}}

|{{dts|1864|05|03|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1957|07|09|format=dmy}}

| Writer

|Publications

Miguel Covarrubias

|{{flag|Mexico}}

|{{dts|1904|11|22|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1957|2|04|format=dmy}}

|Painter, illustrator

|

Alfred Döblin

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1878|08|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1957|06|26|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Berlin Alexanderplatz

{{interlanguage link|Jérôme Doucet|fr}}

|{{flag|France}}

|{{dts|1865|03|05|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1957|02|01|format=dmy}}

| Writer

|Works

Virgilio Giotti

|{{flag|Italy}}

|{{dts|1885|01|15|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1957|09|21|format=dmy}}

| Poet

|Works

Heinrich Hoffman

|{{flag|Germany}}

|{{dts|1885|09|12|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1957|12|16|format=dmy}}

| Photographer

|

Léon Homo

|{{flag|France}}

|{{dts|1872|12|16|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1957|08|16|format=dmy}}

| Historian

|Works

Nikos Kazantzakis

| {{flag|Greece}}

| {{dts|1883|03|02|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1957|10|26|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| The Saviors of God, Captain Michalis, The Last Temptation of Christ, Zorba the Greek

František Kupka

| {{flag|Czech Republic}}

| {{dts|1871|09|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1957|06|24|format=dmy}}

| Painter

| The Cathedral (Katedrála)

Josef Lada

| {{flag|Czech Republic}}

| {{dts|1887|12|17|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1957|12|14|format=dmy}}

| Painter, illustrator and writer

| Kater Mikesch, illustrations for The Good Soldier Švejk

Curzio Malaparte

|{{flag|Italy}}

|{{dts|1898|06|09|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1957|07|19|format=dmy}}

|Writer

|Main writings

Mait Metsanurk

|{{flag|Estonia}}

|{{dts|1879|11|19|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1957|08|21|format=dmy}}

| Writer

|Ümera jõel

{{ill|Blanche Odin|fr}}

|{{flag|France}}

|{{dts|1865|02|26|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1957|08|03|format=dmy}}

| Painter

|

Charles Kay Ogden

|{{flag|United Kingdom}}

|{{dts|1879|06|01|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1957|03|20|format=dmy}}

| Linguist, philosopher, and writer

|Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar

Diego Rivera

| {{flag|Mexico}}

| {{dts|1886|12|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1957|11|24|format=dmy}}

| Painter

| Man at the Crossroads

José Lins do Rego

|{{Flag|Brazil}}

|{{dts|1901|07|3|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1957|09|12|format=dmy}}

|Writer

|Novels

William Runyan

|{{Flag|United States of America}}

|{{dts|1870|01|21|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1957|07|29|format=dmy}}

|Composer

|Great is Thy Faithfulness

Umberto Saba

|{{flag|Italy}}

|{{dts|1883|03|09|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1957|08|26|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

|Works

Gaetano Salvemini

|{{flag|Italy}}

|{{dts|1873|09|08|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1957|09|06|format=dmy}}

| Politician

|Works

Dorothy Sayers

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1893|06|13|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1957|12|17|format=dmy}}

| Writer, Translator, Poet, Editor

| List of works by Dorothy L. Sayers

Jean Sibelius

| {{flag|Finland}}

| {{dts|1865|12|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1957|09|20|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| List of compositions by Jean Sibelius

Viktor Stretti

| {{flag|Czech Republic}}

| {{dts|1878|04|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1957|03|03|format=dmy}}

| Etcher, lithographer and painter

|

Georg Tappert

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1880|10|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1957|11|16|format=dmy}}

| Painter

|

Laura Ingalls Wilder

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1867|02|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1957|02|10|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Little House on the Prairie

John von Neumann

| {{flag|Hungary}}
{{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1903|12|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1957|02|08|format=dmy}}

| Mathematician, physicist, computer scientist

| List of scientific publications by John von Neumann

J. Allen St. John

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1872|10|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1957|05|23|format=dmy}}

| Writer, artist, illustrator

| Illustrator of Edgar Rice Burroughs novels

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

J. R. Ackerley

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1896|11|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|06|04|format=dmy}}

| Writer, editor

| My Dog Tulip, We Think the World of You

Ciro Alegría

| {{flag|Peru}}

| {{dts|1909|11|09|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|02|17|format=dmy}}

| Journalist, novelist

| El mundo es ancho y ajeno

Gordon Allport

| {{flag|United States}}

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

| {{dts|1967|10|09|format=dmy}}

| psychologist

| Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality

Norman Angell

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1872|12|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|10|07|format=dmy}}

| journalist, author, politician

| The Great Illusion

Tudor Arghezi

| {{flag|Romania}}

| {{dts|1880|05|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|07|14|format=dmy}}

| poet, novelist, essayist

| Cuvinte Potrivite, Zdreanță

Marcel Aymé

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1902|03|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|10|14|format=dmy}}

| Novelist, children's writer, playwright

| The passer-through-walls

Margaret Ayer Barnes

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1886|04|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|10|25|format=dmy}}

| playwright, novelist, short-story writer

| Years of Grace

Vladimir Bartol

| {{flag|Slovenia}}

| {{dts|1903|02|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|09|12|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Alamut

Frank Bruno

| {{flag|New Zealand}}

| 1910

| {{dts|1967|07|12|format=dmy}}

| Writer, cartoonist, boxer

| Black Noon at Ngutu, The Hellbuster

John Coltrane

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1926|09|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|07|17|format=dmy}}

| Saxophonist, composer

| Giant Steps

Isaac Deutscher

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1907|04|03|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|08|19|format=dmy}}

| Biographer

| Stalin: a Political Biography

Julien Duvivier

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1896|10|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|10|29|format=dmy}}

| film director, screenwriter

| Sous le ciel de Paris

Ilya Ehrenburg

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1891|01|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|08|31|format=dmy}}

| writer, journalist, translator

| Black Book, The Thaw

Sidney Bradshaw Fay

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1876|04|13|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|08|29|format=dmy}}

| Historian

| The Origins of the World War

Varian Fry

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1907|10|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|09|13|format=dmy}}

| Journalist

| The Peace that Failed, Surrender on Demand

{{ill|Hein Gorny|de}}

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1904|04|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|06|14|format=dmy}}

| Photographer

| [http://www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/kue/70048121 Collection at Deutsche Fotothek]

Che Guevara

| {{flag|Argentina}}
{{flag|Cuba}}

| {{dts|1928|06|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|10|09|format=dmy}}

| Communist revolutionary, author

| Guerrilla Warfare

Robert van Gulik

| {{flag|Netherlands}}

| {{dts|1910|08|09|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|09|24|format=dmy}}

| writer, diplomat, translator

| The Chinese Maze Murders

Woody Guthrie

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1912|07|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|10|03|format=dmy}}

| singer-songwriter

| This Land Is Your Land

Edward Hopper

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1882|07|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|05|15|format=dmy}}

| Painter

| Nighthawks

Langston Hughes

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1902|02|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|05|22|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| The Weary Blues

Lajos Kassák

| {{flag|Hungary}}

| {{dts|1887|03|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|07|22|format=dmy}}

| Poet, writer, painter

|

Margaret Kennedy

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1896|04|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|07|31|format=dmy}}

| Novelist, playwright

| The Constant Nymph, Troy Chimneys

Joseph Kesselring

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1902|07|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|11|05|format=dmy}}

| playwright

| Arsenic and Old Lace

Zoltán Kodály

| {{flag|Hungary}}

| {{dts|1882|12|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|03|06|format=dmy}}

| Composer, philosopher, ethnomusicologist

| Psalmus Hungaricus

Wolfgang Köhler

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1887|01|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|06|11|format=dmy}}

| Psychologist

| The Mentality of Apes, Gestalt Psychology

{{Interlanguage link|Josefina Lerena Acevedo de Blixen|es}}

| {{flag|Uruguay}}

| {{dts|1889|02|13|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|11|12|format=dmy}}

| Writer, journalist

| Reyles

Douglas MacLean

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1890|01|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|07|09|format=dmy}}

| actor, writer

| Mama Loves Papa

René Magritte

| {{flag|Belgium}}

| {{dts|1898|11|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|08|15|format=dmy}}

| Painter

| The Difficult Crossing, The Treachery of Images

John Masefield

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1878|06|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|05|12|format=dmy}}

| Poet, novelist

| The Everlasting Mercy, Sea-Fever

André Maurois

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1885|07|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|10|09|format=dmy}}

| author

| The Silence of Colonel Bramble

Carson McCullers

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1917|02|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|09|29|format=dmy}}

| Novelist, playwright, poet

| The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding

Edgar Neville

| {{flag|Spain}}

| {{dts|1899|12|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|04|23|format=dmy}}

| playwright, film director

|

Christopher Okigbo

| {{flag|Nigeria}}

| {{dts|1932|08|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|09|format=dmy}}

| Writer

|

J. Robert Oppenheimer

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1904|04|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|02|18|format=dmy}}

| Physicist, professor

|

Joe Orton

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1933|01|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|08|09|format=dmy}}

| Playwright

| The Ruffian on the Stair, Entertaining Mr Sloane

Dorothy Parker

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1893|08|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|06|07|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Enough Rope

Violeta Parra

|{{Flag|Chile}}

| {{dts|1917|10|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|02|05|format=dmy}}

| Composer, songwriter

|Gracias a la Vida

Arthur Ransome

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1884|01|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|06|03|format=dmy}}

| Writer, journalist

| Swallows and Amazons series

Otis Redding

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1941|11|09|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|12|10|format=dmy}}

| Singer, songwriter

| Respect

Elmer Rice

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1892|09|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|05|08|format=dmy}}

| playwright

| The Adding Machine, Street Scene

Gerhard Ritter

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1888|04|06|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|07|01|format=dmy}}

| Historian

| Luther: Gestalt und Symbol

José Martínez Ruiz

| {{flag|Spain}}

| {{dts|1873|06|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|03|02|format=dmy}}

| Novelist, essayist, literary critic

| La ruta de Don Quijote, La voluntad, Antonio Azorín

Carl Sandburg

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1878|01|06|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|07|22|format=dmy}}

| Poet, writer, journalist

| Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Chicago Poems

Siegfried Sassoon

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1886|09|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|09|01|format=dmy}}

| poet, soldier, writer

| Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

Philippa Schuyler

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1931|08|02|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|05|09|format=dmy}}

| Journalist, pianist

| Adventures in Black and White

Walter Terence Stace

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1886|11|17|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|08|02|format=dmy}}

| Philosopher, academic,

| Mysticism and Philosophy

Billy Strayhorn

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1915|11|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|05|31|format=dmy}}

| Composer, lyricist

| Take the "A" Train, Lush Life

Jean Toomer

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1894|12|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|03|30|format=dmy}}

| Poet, novelist

| Cane

Pavlo Tychyna

| {{flag|Ukraine}}

| {{dts|1891|01|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|09|16|format=dmy}}

| Poet, statesman

|

Paul Whiteman

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1890|03|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|12|29|format=dmy}}

| Bandleader, composer

| Flamin' Mamie

Ossip Zadkine

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1890|07|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|11|25|format=dmy}}

| Artist

| The Destroyed City

Wolfgang Zeller

|{{flag|Germany}}

|{{dts|1893|09|12|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1967|01|11|format=dmy}}

|Composer

|

João Guimarães Rosa

|{{Flag|Brazil}}

|{{dts|1908|06|27|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1967|11|19|format=dmy}}

|Writer

|Sagarana

Countries with life + 50 years

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In most countries of Africa and Asia, as well as Belarus, Bolivia, 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

María Esther Ballivián

| {{flag|Bolivia}}

| {{dts|1927|6|13|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1977|6|23|format=dmy}}

| Artist

| Naturaleza muerta

Margaret Escott

| {{flag|New Zealand}}

| {{dts|1908|07|09|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1977|08|15|format=dmy}}

| Author

| Show Down

Edmond Hamilton

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1904|10|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1977|02|01|format=dmy}}

| Author

| Captain Future

H. H. Hollis

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1921|10|07|format=dmy}}

| 1977

| SF Author

| "The Guerrilla Trees"

Vladimir Nabokov

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1899|04|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1977|07|02|format=dmy}}

| Author

| Lolita

Anaïs Nin

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1903|02|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1977|01|14|format=dmy}}

| Author

| Delta of Venus

Peruchín

| {{flag|Cuba}}

| {{dts|1913|01|31|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1977|12|24|format=dmy}}

| Pianist

|

Elvis Presley

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1935|01|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1977|08|16|format=dmy}}

| Musician

| Jailhouse Rock

{{ill|Pedro Antonio Ramos|es}}

| {{flag|Venezuela}}

| {{dts|1905|10|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1977|5|1|format=dmy}}

| Composer, bassoonist

| "Himno a José María Carreño"

H. A. Rey

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1898|09|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1977|08|26|format=dmy}}

| Author

| Curious George

Dennis Wheatley

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1897|01|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1977|11|10|format=dmy}}

| Author

| The Devil Rides Out

Countries with life + 80 years

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Spain has a copyright term of life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988. 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

James Agate

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1877|09|09|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|06|06|format=dmy}}

| Writer, critic

| Ego

Tilly Aston

| {{flag|Australia}}

| {{dts|1873|12|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|11|01|format=dmy}}

| Educator, writer

|

Joseph Barcroft

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1872|07|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|03|21|format=dmy}}

| Physiologist

| The Respiratory Function of the Blood

W. Augustus Barratt

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1873|06|03|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|04|12|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Sir Patrick Spens

Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1868|08|05|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|11|14|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| The Lodger

J. D. Beresford

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1873|03|17|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|02|01|format=dmy}}

| Science fiction and horror author

| The Hampdenshire Wonder

{{Interlanguage link|Augustin Bernard|fr}}

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1865|08|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|12|29|format=dmy}}

| Geographer

| Les Confins algéro-marocains

Tristan Bernard

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1866|09|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|12|07|format=dmy}}

| Playwright

| Mémoires d'un jeune homme rangé

Jean-Richard Bloch

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1884|05|25|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|03|15|format=dmy}}

| Writer

|

{{Interlanguage link|Luigi Bonelli (orientalist)|it|3=Luigi Bonelli (orientalista)|lt=Luigi Bonelli|vertical-align=sup}}

| {{flag|Italy}}

| {{dts|1865|09|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|01|26|format=dmy}}

| Orientalist

| Lessico italiano-turco

Pierre Bonnard

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1867|10|03|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|01|23|format=dmy}}

| Painter, printmaker

|

Wolfgang Borchert

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1921|05|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|11|20|format=dmy}}

| Playwright

| Draußen vor der Tür

Angela Brazil

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1868|11|30|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|03|13|format=dmy}}

| Children's books author

|

Óscar Castro Zúñiga

| {{flag|Chile}}

| {{dts|1910|3|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|10|1|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Llampo de Sangre, Camino en el alba, Comarca del jazmín

Willa Cather

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1873|12|7|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|4|24|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| My Ántonia

{{Interlanguage link|Dmitry Censor|ru|3=Цензор, Дмитрий Михайлович|lt=Dmitry Censor|vertical-align=sup}}

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1877|12|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|12|26|format=dmy}}

| Poet

|

George Chatterton-Hill

| {{flag|Ireland}}

| 1883

| {{dts|1947|01|12|format=dmy}}

| Philosopher

| Heredity and Selection in Sociology

Édouard Chatton

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1883|10|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|4|23|format=dmy}}

| Biologist

|

Winston Churchill

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1871|11|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|3|12|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| The Celebrity

Ananda Coomaraswamy

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1877|08|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|09|09|format=dmy}}

| historian, philosopher

| The Dance of Shiva

Aleister Crowley

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1875|10|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|12|01|format=dmy}}

| Poet

| Bibliography

Franz Cumont

| {{flag|Belgium}}

| {{dts|1868|01|03|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|08|20|format=dmy}}

| archeologist

| Texts and Illustrated Monuments Relating to the Mysteries of Mithra

Petras Cvirka

| {{flag|Lithuania}}

| {{dts|1909|03|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|05|02|format=dmy}}

| Author

| Frank Kruk

Josef Čapek

| {{flag|Czech Republic}}

| {{dts|1887|03|23|format=dmy}}

| April 1945Josef Čapek's remains were never found. In 1948 [http://kultura.zpravy.idnes.cz/autorska-prava-josefa-capka-dpc-/literatura.aspx?c=A160108_130210_literatura_ob the court officially set the date of his death], the day which he did not survive being 30 April 1947.

| Painter, writer

| All About Doggie and Pussycat

Anton Denikin

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1872|12|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|08|08|format=dmy}}

| Soldier, writer

| Russian Turmoil

Walter Donaldson

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1893|02|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|07|15|format=dmy}}

| Songwriter

| Makin' Whoopee, Yes Sir, That's My Baby

Hans Fallada

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1893|07|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|02|05|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Der junge Goedeschal, Little Man, What Now?

Irving Fisher

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1867|02|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|04|29|format=dmy}}

| Economist

| The Purchasing Power of Money

Desmond FitzGerald

| {{flag|Ireland}}

| {{dts|1888|02|13|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|04|09|format=dmy}}

| Architect

|

Henry Ford

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1863|07|30|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|04|07|format=dmy}}

| Business magnate

| The International Jew

John Ulrich Giesy

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1877|08|06|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|09|08|format=dmy}}

| Writer, physician

| Palos of the Dog Star Pack

Victor Goldschmidt

| {{flag|Norway}}

| {{dts|1888|01|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|03|20|format=dmy}}

| Mineralogist

| Geochemische Verteilungsgesetze der Elemente

Reynaldo Hahn

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1874|08|09|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|01|28|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Ciboulette

G. H. Hardy

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1877|02|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|12|01|format=dmy}}

| Mathematician

| A Mathematician's Apology

Frank Heller

| {{flag|Sweden}}

| {{dts|1886|07|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|10|14|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| The London Adventures of Mr. Collin

Frederick Gowland Hopkins

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1861|06|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|05|16|format=dmy}}

| Biochemist

| Feeding experiments illustrating the importance of accessory factors in normal dietaries

Blanche Hoschedé Monet

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1865|11|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|12|08|format=dmy}}

| Painter

|

Victor Horta

| {{flag|Belgium}}

| {{dts|1861|06|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|08|09|format=dmy}}

| Architect

|

Albert Howard

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1873|12|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|10|20|format=dmy}}

| Botanist

| An Agricultural Testament

Ricarda Huch

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1864|07|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|11|17|format=dmy}}

| Author

| The Deruga Case

{{Interlanguage link|Stanislav Hudeček|cs|Stanislav Hudeček (malíř)}}

| {{flag|Czech Republic}}

| {{dts|1872|03|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|04|15|format=dmy}}

| Painter and illustrator

|

E.M. Hull

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1880|08|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|02|11|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| The Sheik

Pierre Janet

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1859|05|30|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|02|24|format=dmy}}

| Psychologist

| La médecine psychologique

Afevork Ghevre Jesus

| {{flag|Ethiopia}}

| {{dts|1868|07|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|09|25|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Ləbb Wälläd Tarik

Elizabeth Jordan

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1865|05|09|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|02|24|format=dmy}}

| Journalist, suffragist, author

|

Pyotr Krasnov

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1869|09|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|01|17|format=dmy}}

| Soldier, writer

| From Double Eagle To the Red Flag

{{Interlanguage link|Karel Langer|cs}}

| {{flag|Czech Republic}}

| {{dts|1878|01|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|05|02|format=dmy}}

| Painter

|

Richard Le Gallienne

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1866|01|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|09|15|format=dmy}}

| author, poet

|

C. Louis Leipoldt

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| {{dts|1880|12|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|04|12|format=dmy}}

| Poet

|

Philipp Lenard

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1862|06|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|05|20|format=dmy}}

| Physicist

| Quantitative on cathode rays

{{Interlanguage link|Friedrich von Lerch|de}}

| {{flag|Austria}}

| {{dts|1878|05|30|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|12|19|format=dmy}}

| Physicist

| Separation of radium C from radium E

Hugh Lofting

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1886|01|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|09|26|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Doctor Dolittle series

Ernst Lubitsch

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1892|01|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|11|30|format=dmy}}

| Director

|

Manuel Machado

| {{flag|Spain}}

| {{dts|1874|08|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|01|19|format=dmy}}

| Poet and playwright

| La Lola se va a los puertos

Arthur Machen

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1863|03|03|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|12|15|format=dmy}}

| Fantasy and horror author

| The Great God Pan, The Three Impostors, The Hill of Dreams, The White People

Karl Mannheim

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1893|03|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|01|09|format=dmy}}

| Sociologist

| Ideology and Utopia

Henri Manuel

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1874|04|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|09|11|format=dmy}}

| Photographer

|

William Moulton Marston

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1893|05|09|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|05|02|format=dmy}}

| Psychologist, inventor, comic book writer

| Wonder Woman, DISC assessment

Anatole de Monzie

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1876|11|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|01|11|format=dmy}}

| Encyclopaedist

| Grandeur et servitude judiciaires

Yone Noguchi

| {{flag|Japan}}

| {{dts|1875|12|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|07|13|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| The American Diary of a Japanese Girl

Emma Orczy

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1865|09|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|11|12|format=dmy}}

| Novelist, Playwright

| The Scarlet Pimpernel

P. D. Ouspensky

|{{flag|Russia}}

|{{dts|1878|03|05|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1947|10|02|format=dmy}}

|Mathematician, esotericist

|

Friedrich Paschen

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1865|01|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|02|25|format=dmy}}

| Physicist

| Ueber die zum Funkenübergang in Luft, Wasserstoff und Kohlensäure bei verschiedenen Drucken erforderliche Potentialdifferenz

John Henry Patterson

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1867|11|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|06|18|format=dmy}}

| Soldier, hunter, author

| The Man-Eaters of Tsavo

Reginald Payne

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1909|06|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|12|20|format=dmy}}

| Illustrator

| The Railway Series

Júlio Afrânio Peixoto

| {{Flag|Brazil}}

| {{dts|1876|12|17|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|01|12|format=dmy}}

| Writer

|

Max Planck

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1858|04|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|10|04|format=dmy}}

| Scientist

|

R. I. Pocock

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1863|03|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|08|09|format=dmy}}

| Zoologist

| The Fauna of British India

Carl Adolph Preyer

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1863|07|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|11|16|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| Festal Polonaise, Op.14

Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

| {{flag|Switzerland}}

| {{dts|1878|09|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|05|23|format=dmy}}

| Author

| Beauty on Earth

Forrest Reid

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1875|06|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|01|04|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| Young Tom

Nicholas Roerich

| {{flag|Russia}}
{{flag|India}}

| {{dts|1874|10|9|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|12|13|format=dmy}}

| Painter, writer

|

{{Interlanguage link|Borys Romanowski|ka|3=ბორის რომანოვსკი|lt=Borys Romanowski|vertical-align=sup}}

| {{flag|Georgia}}

| 1879

| 1947

| Polish painter active in Georgia

|

Margaret Marshall Saunders

|{{flag|Canada}}

|{{dts|1861|05|13|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1947|02|15|format=dmy}}

|Writer

|

{{Interlanguage link|Johannes Schubert (physicist)|ar|يوهانس_شوبرت|de|Johannes Schubert (Physiker)|lt=Johannes Schubert|vertical-align=sup}}

| {{flag|Austria}}

| {{dts|1859|06|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|09|29|format=dmy}}

| Physicist

|

Emil Schovánek

| {{flag|Czech Republic}}

| {{dts|1885|09|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|07|11|format=dmy}}

| Painter

|

Alexander Scott

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1853|12|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|03|10|format=dmy}}

| Chemist

| An Introduction to Chemical Theory

Kathleen Scott

|{{flag|United Kingdom}}

|{{dts|1878|03|27|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1947|07|25|format=dmy}}

|Sculptor

|

Victor Serge

| {{flag|Belgium}}

| {{dts|1890|12|30|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|11|17|format=dmy}}

| Marxist revolutionary, writer

| From Lenin to Stalin, Destiny of a Revolution

M. P. Shiel

| {{flag|Montserrat}}

| {{dts|1865|07|21|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|02|17|format=dmy}}

| Horror and science fiction author

| The Purple Cloud, The Yellow Danger{{Broken anchor|date=2025-04-17|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Yellow Peril#Fiction|reason= The anchor (Fiction) has been deleted.|diff_id=899843212}}

Andrei Shkuro

| {{flag|Russia}}

| {{dts|1887|01|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|01|17|format=dmy}}

| Soldier, memoirist

|

Alfred Walter Stewart

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1880|09}}

| {{dts|1947|07|01|format=dmy}}

| Chemist, Writer

| Nordenholt's Million

Alan Sullivan

| {{flag|Canada}}

| {{dts|1868|11|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|08|06|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| The Great Divide

Flora Thompson

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1876|12|05|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|05|21|format=dmy}}

| Novelist, poet

| Lark Rise to Candleford

{{Interlanguage link|Mstislav Tsyavlovsky|ru|3=Цявловский, Мстислав Александрович|lt= Mstislav Tsyavlovsky|vertical-align=sup}}

| {{flag|Russia}}
{{flag|USSR}}

| {{dts|1883|06|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|11|11|format=dmy}}

| Literary scholar

|

Jim Tully

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1886|06|03|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|06|22|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| Beggars of Life

Marcel Varnel

| {{flag|France}}

| {{dts|1892|10|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|07|13|format=dmy}}

| Film Director

|

E. C. Vivian

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1882|10|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|05|21|format=dmy}}

| Writer, editor

| Fields of Sleep

Sidney Webb

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1859|07|13|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|10|13|format=dmy}}

|

|

Alfred North Whitehead

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1861|02|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|12|30|format=dmy}}

| Mathematician

| Process and Reality

Anna Wickham

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1883}}

| {{dts|1947|04|30|format=dmy}}

| Poet

| Songs of John Oland

Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman

| {{flag|Belgium}}

| {{dts|1866|10|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|7|24|format=dmy}}

| Botanist

|

Almroth Wright

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1861|08|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|04|30|format=dmy}}

| Bacteriologist

| The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage

Riichi Yokomitsu

|{{flag|Japan}}

|{{dts|1898|03|17|format=dmy}}

|{{dts|1947|12|30|format=dmy}}

|Writer

|

{{Interlanguage link|Eduard von Zambaur|de}}

| {{flag|Austria}}

| {{dts|1866|05|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1947|10|10|format=dmy}}

| Orientalist

| Die Münzprägungen des Islams

United States

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

File:Conan colors by rodrigokatrakas ddcrjw1-fullview.jpg, a character who has long been subject of copyright disputes and ambiguity, and will definitively enter the public domain in 2028.]]

Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1932, films released in 1932, and other works published in 1932, will enter the public domain in 2028.{{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 |accessdate=17 December 2020}}{{cite web |title=Copyright and the Public Domain |publisher=Public Domain Information Project |url=http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php|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 1927 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1957 will also enter the public domain.

Among the films that will enter the public domain in 2028 are the original Scarface, The Mummy with Boris Karloff, Tarzan the Ape Man with Johnny Weissmuller, Best Picture Academy Award-winner Grand Hotel, Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express with Marlene Dietrich, Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise, The Music Box starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Katharine Hepburn's film debut A Bill of Divorcement, Shirley Temple's film debut The Red-Haired Alibi, the earliest Looney Tunes short films that were still under copyright when the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992 was implemented, Horse Feathers with the Marx Brothers, Tod Browning's Freaks, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr, Alfred Hitchcock's Number Seventeen, the John Ford films Air Mail and Flesh (the latter of which was co-written by William Faulkner), Jean Renoir's Boudu Saved from Drowning, Yasujirō Ozu's I Was Born, But..., the first Mexican sound film Santa, the first Egyptian sound film Sons of Aristocrats, the first Marathi language sound film and oldest surviving Indian film Ayodhyecha Raja, Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees (the first cartoon produced in Technicolor), and Mickey's Revue with the first appearance of Dippy Dawg, the character who would later become Goofy.

Examples of important literary works entering the public domain include Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, William Faulkner's Light in August, Samuel Becket's Dream of Fair to Middling Women, Graham Greene's Stamboul Train, Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, Zelda Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz, John Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot detective novel Peril at End House, John Dos Passos's Nineteen Nineteen, Robert E. Howard's first Conan the Barbarian short story The Phoenix on the Sword, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods, Herge's Tintin in America in its original French unedited black-and-white version, and W. E. Johns’ first Biggles-collection The Camels Are Coming.

Important artworks entering the public domain include Pablo Picasso's Nude in a Black Armchair and Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, Oskar Schlemmer's painting Bauhaus Stairway, Otto Dix's triptych The War, Henri Matisse's mural The Dance II, David Alfaro Siqueiros' fresco América Tropical, Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals, Alberto Giacometti's sculpture The Palace at 4 a.m., Man Ray's photograph Larmes and some of the earliest professional photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson including Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare and Hyères, France.

Among the better-known songs entering the public domain are "Try a Little Tenderness", "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" and "Love Is the Sweetest Thing".

See also

References

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