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January 01, 1970

When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of works that entered the public domain in 2007. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.

Entered the public domain in countries with life + 70 years edit

With the exception of Belarus (Life + 50 years) and Spain (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.[1][2] The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator that entered the public domain on January 1, 2007.

Names Country Birth Death Occupation Notable work
James Churchward   United Kingdom 27 February 1851 4 January 1936 occult writer. The Lost Continent of Mu, the Motherland of Men, The Children of Mu
Ramón del Valle-Inclán   Spain 28 October 1866 5 January 1936 dramatist, novelist. El marqués de Bradomín. Coloquios románticos (The Marquis of Bradomin. Romantic meetings), Bohemian Lights
Mateiu Caragiale   Romania 25 March 1885 17 January 1936 novelist, poet. Craii de Curtea-Veche (Rakes of the Old Court), Remember
Rudyard Kipling   United Kingdom 30 December 1865 18 January 1936 novelist, poet, short-story writer. The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book
Elizabeth Robins Pennell   United States 21 February 1855 7 February 1936 art critic, biographer, memoirist, travel writer. Nights: Rome & Venice in the Aesthetic Eighties, London & Paris in the Fighting Nineties
Rahel Sanzara   Germany 9 February 1894 8 February 1936 novelist. Das verlorene Kind (The Lost Child), Die glückliche Hand
Lidia Veselitskaya   Russia 17 March 1857 23 February 1936 novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, translator. Mimi's Marriage, Mimi at the Springs, Mimi Poisons Herself
Mikhail Kuzmin   Russia 18 October 1872 1 March 1936 musician, novelist, poet. Wings, Alexandrian Songs
A. de Herz   Romania 15 December 1887 9 March 1936 playwright, poet, short-story writer. Păianjenul (The Spider), Noaptea Învierii (Resurrection Night)
Marguerite Durand   France 24 January 1864 16 March 1936 journalist, pamphlet writer. founder of the newspaper La Fronde (The Sling)
A. E. Housman   United Kingdom 26 March 1859 30 April 1936 classical scholar, poet. A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems
Robert E. Howard   United States 22 January 1906 11 June 1936 sword and sorcery writer. The Hour of the Dragon, Worms of the Earth
M. R. James   United Kingdom 1 August 1862 12 June 1936 ghost story writer, medievalist, antiquarian. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, More Ghost Stories
Karl Kraus   Austria 28 April 1874 12 June 1936 essayist, playwright, poet, satirist. Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (The Last Days of Mankind), Literatur oder man wird doch da sehn (Literature, or You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet)
G. K. Chesterton   United Kingdom 29 May 1874 14 June 1936 mystery writer, philosopher, lay theologian, apologist. The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Man Who Was Thursday
Maxim Gorky   Russia 28 March 1868 18 June 1936 novelist, playwright, poet, short-story writer. The Life of Klim Samgin, The Artamonov Business
Donald Maxwell   United Kingdom 14 April 1877 25 July 1936 travel writer, illustrator. regular illustrator for the newspapers The Graphic and Church Times
F. J. Harvey Darton   United Kingdom 22 September 1878 26 July 1936 literary historian, novelist, publisher. The Story of English Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life, Alibi Pilgrimage
Mourning Dove   United States 1884 8 August 1936 Western novelist, folklore writer. Cogewea, Coyote Stories
Grazia Deledda   Italy 27 September 1871 15 August 1936 novelist. After the Divorce, Canne al vento (Reeds in the wind)
Federico García Lorca   Spain 5 June 1898 19 August 1936 playwright, poet. The Butterfly's Evil Spell, The Billy-Club Puppets
Juliette Adam   France 4 October 1836 23 August 1936 novelist, memoirist. Mes premières armes littéraires et politiques, Mes sentiments et nos idées avant 1870
J. Slauerhoff   Netherlands 15 September 1898 5 October 1936 novelist, poet. Het verboden rijk (The forbidden kingdom), Oost-Azië (East Asia)
Stefan Grabiński   Poland 26 February 1887 12 November 1936 horror writer. Z Wyjątków. W Pomrokach Wiary (Exceptions: In the Dark of Faith), Na Wzgórzu Róż (On the Hill of Roses)
Luigi Pirandello   Italy 28 June 1867 10 December 1936 dramatist, novelist, poet, short-story writer. The Late Mattia Pascal, Six Characters in Search of an Author
Frances Garnet Wolseley, 2nd Viscountess Wolseley   United Kingdom 15 September 1872 24 December 1936 gardening writer. Gardening for Women, Women on the Land
Kristína Royová   Slovakia 18 August 1860 27 December 1936 novelist, poet. Bez Boha na svete (Without God in the world), Bludári (Heretics)
John Cornford   United Kingdom 27 December 1915 28 December 1936 poet. Full Moon At Tierz
Miguel de Unamuno   Spain 29 September 1864 31 December 1936 classics scholar, novelist, playwright, philosopher. Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion, Mist

Entered the public domain in countries with life + 50 years edit

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.

Names Country Birth Death Occupation Notable work
Wickham Steed   United Kingdom 10 October 1871 13 January 1956 historian, journalist. Hitler Whence and Whither?, The Meaning of Hitlerism
Sheila Kaye-Smith   United Kingdom 4 February 1887 14 January 1956 novelist. Joanna Godden, The End of the House of Alard
H. L. Mencken   United States 12 September 1880 29 January 1956 cultural critic, essayist, satirist. The American Language, The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
A. A. Milne   United Kingdom 18 January 1882 31 January 1956 novelist, playwright, poet. Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
Edmund Clerihew Bentley   United Kingdom 10 July 1875 30 March 1956 humorist, mystery novelist, poet. Trent's Last Case, Trent's Own Case
Arthur Talmage Abernethy   United States 10 October 1872 15 May 1956 poet, theologian. The Hell You Say!: A Novel, The Jew a Negro; Being a Study of the Jewish Ancestry from an Impartial Standpoint
Max Beerbohm   United Kingdom 24 August 1872 20 May 1956 caricaturist, humorist, novelist, parodist. Zuleika Dobson, The Happy Hypocrite
Ion Călugăru   Romania 14 February 1902 22 May 1956 novelist, short-story writer. Copilăria unui netrebnic (The Childhood of a Ne'er-do-well), Oțel și pîine (Steel and Bread)
Walter de la Mare   United Kingdom 25 April 1873 22 June 1956 children's writer, horror writer. Memoirs of a Midget, Collected Stories for Children
Nicos Nicolaides   Greece 3 April 1884 24 June 1956 dramatist, short-story writer, painter. To Stravoxylo (The Peevish Fellow), O Skelethras Diegimata B (The Skeleton Short Stories'. Book 2)
Gottfried Benn   Germany 2 May 1886 7 July 1956 essayist, poet. Morgue und andere Gedichte (Morgue and other Poems), Doppelleben (Double Life)
Giovanni Papini   Italy 9 January 1881 8 July 1956 novelist, short-story writer, philosopher. Gog, Il crepuscolo dei filosofi (The Twilight of the Philosophers)
Bertolt Brecht   Germany 10 February 1898 14 August 1956 playwright, poet. The Threepenny Opera, The Flight Across the Ocean
Michael Ventris   United Kingdom 12 July 1922 6 September 1956 classics scholar, philologist. Documents in Mycenaean Greek, Introducing the Minoan Language
A. L. Zissu   Romania 25 January 1888 6 September 1956 dramatist, essayist, novelist, polemicist. Nu există cult mozaic (No Such Thing as a Mosaic Religion), Calea Calvarului (The Path of Calvary)
Hans Carossa   Germany 15 December 1878 12 September 1956 novelist, poet. Stella Mystica, Ungleiche Welten (Unequal Worlds)
Pío Baroja   Spain 28 December 1872 30 October 1956 novelist. The Tree of Knowledge, Memorias de un Hombre de Acción (Memories of a Man of Action)
Pío Baroja   Spain 28 December 1872 30 October 1956 novelist. The Tree of Knowledge, Memorias de un Hombre de Acción (Memories of a Man of Action)
B. R. Ambedkar   India 14 April 1891 6 December 1956 economist, political writer, journal writer. Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development, The Buddha and His Dhamma
Arthur Grimble   United Kingdom 11 June 1888 13 December 1956 travel writer, memoirist. A Pattern of Islands, Return to the Islands
Robert Walser    Switzerland 15 April 1878 25 December 1956 novelist, poet, short-story writer. Jakob von Gunten, Der Gehülfe (The Assistant)

Entering the public domain in the United States edit

See also: Public domain in the United States

In the United States, the copyright status of works extends for the life of the author or artists, plus 70 years.[3][4] If the work is owned by a corporation, then the copyright extends 95 years.[5]

Due to the passing of the Copyright Term Extension Act (Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act) in 1998, no new works would enter the public domain in this jurisdiction until 2019.[6]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ . Billboard.biz. 2011-09-12. Archived from the original on 2013-01-06. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
  2. ^ Directive 2006/116/EC
  3. ^ "What Could Have Entered the Public Domain | Duke University School of Law".
  4. ^ "S.505 - One Hundred Fifth Congress of the United States of America at the Session Session. An act to amend the provisions of title 17, United States Code, with respect to the duration of copyright, and for other purposes" (PDF). U.S. Copyright Office.
  5. ^ "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States | Copyright Information Center".
  6. ^ . Archived from the original on 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2012-06-02.

External links edit

  • Winnie the Pooh, the Public Domain and Winnie’s Canadian Connection

January 01, 1970
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When a work s copyright expires it enters the public domain The following is a list of works that entered the public domain in 2007 Since laws vary globally the copyright status of some works are not uniform Contents 1 Entered the public domain in countries with life 70 years 2 Entered the public domain in countries with life 50 years 3 Entering the public domain in the United States 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksEntered the public domain in countries with life 70 years editWith the exception of Belarus Life 50 years and Spain 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 1 2 The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator that entered the public domain on January 1 2007 Names Country Birth Death Occupation Notable work James Churchward nbsp United Kingdom 27 February 1851 4 January 1936 occult writer The Lost Continent of Mu the Motherland of Men The Children of Mu Ramon del Valle Inclan nbsp Spain 28 October 1866 5 January 1936 dramatist novelist El marques de Bradomin Coloquios romanticos The Marquis of Bradomin Romantic meetings Bohemian Lights Mateiu Caragiale nbsp Romania 25 March 1885 17 January 1936 novelist poet Craii de Curtea Veche Rakes of the Old Court Remember Rudyard Kipling nbsp United Kingdom 30 December 1865 18 January 1936 novelist poet short story writer The Jungle Book The Second Jungle Book Elizabeth Robins Pennell nbsp United States 21 February 1855 7 February 1936 art critic biographer memoirist travel writer Nights Rome amp Venice in the Aesthetic Eighties London amp Paris in the Fighting Nineties Rahel Sanzara nbsp Germany 9 February 1894 8 February 1936 novelist Das verlorene Kind The Lost Child Die gluckliche Hand Lidia Veselitskaya nbsp Russia 17 March 1857 23 February 1936 novelist short story writer memoirist translator Mimi s Marriage Mimi at the Springs Mimi Poisons Herself Mikhail Kuzmin nbsp Russia 18 October 1872 1 March 1936 musician novelist poet Wings Alexandrian Songs A de Herz nbsp Romania 15 December 1887 9 March 1936 playwright poet short story writer Păianjenul The Spider Noaptea Invierii Resurrection Night Marguerite Durand nbsp France 24 January 1864 16 March 1936 journalist pamphlet writer founder of the newspaper La Fronde The Sling A E Housman nbsp United Kingdom 26 March 1859 30 April 1936 classical scholar poet A Shropshire Lad Last Poems Robert E Howard nbsp United States 22 January 1906 11 June 1936 sword and sorcery writer The Hour of the Dragon Worms of the Earth M R James nbsp United Kingdom 1 August 1862 12 June 1936 ghost story writer medievalist antiquarian Ghost Stories of an Antiquary More Ghost Stories Karl Kraus nbsp Austria 28 April 1874 12 June 1936 essayist playwright poet satirist Die letzten Tage der Menschheit The Last Days of Mankind Literatur oder man wird doch da sehn Literature or You Ain t Seen Nothing Yet G K Chesterton nbsp United Kingdom 29 May 1874 14 June 1936 mystery writer philosopher lay theologian apologist The Napoleon of Notting Hill The Man Who Was Thursday Maxim Gorky nbsp Russia 28 March 1868 18 June 1936 novelist playwright poet short story writer The Life of Klim Samgin The Artamonov Business Donald Maxwell nbsp United Kingdom 14 April 1877 25 July 1936 travel writer illustrator regular illustrator for the newspapers The Graphic and Church Times F J Harvey Darton nbsp United Kingdom 22 September 1878 26 July 1936 literary historian novelist publisher The Story of English Children s Books in England Five Centuries of Social Life Alibi Pilgrimage Mourning Dove nbsp United States 1884 8 August 1936 Western novelist folklore writer Cogewea Coyote Stories Grazia Deledda nbsp Italy 27 September 1871 15 August 1936 novelist After the Divorce Canne al vento Reeds in the wind Federico Garcia Lorca nbsp Spain 5 June 1898 19 August 1936 playwright poet The Butterfly s Evil Spell The Billy Club Puppets Juliette Adam nbsp France 4 October 1836 23 August 1936 novelist memoirist Mes premieres armes litteraires et politiques Mes sentiments et nos idees avant 1870 J Slauerhoff nbsp Netherlands 15 September 1898 5 October 1936 novelist poet Het verboden rijk The forbidden kingdom Oost Azie East Asia Stefan Grabinski nbsp Poland 26 February 1887 12 November 1936 horror writer Z Wyjatkow W Pomrokach Wiary Exceptions In the Dark of Faith Na Wzgorzu Roz On the Hill of Roses Luigi Pirandello nbsp Italy 28 June 1867 10 December 1936 dramatist novelist poet short story writer The Late Mattia Pascal Six Characters in Search of an Author Frances Garnet Wolseley 2nd Viscountess Wolseley nbsp United Kingdom 15 September 1872 24 December 1936 gardening writer Gardening for Women Women on the Land Kristina Royova nbsp Slovakia 18 August 1860 27 December 1936 novelist poet Bez Boha na svete Without God in the world Bludari Heretics John Cornford nbsp United Kingdom 27 December 1915 28 December 1936 poet Full Moon At Tierz Miguel de Unamuno nbsp Spain 29 September 1864 31 December 1936 classics scholar novelist playwright philosopher Abel Sanchez The History of a Passion MistEntered the public domain in countries with life 50 years editIn 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 Names Country Birth Death Occupation Notable work Wickham Steed nbsp United Kingdom 10 October 1871 13 January 1956 historian journalist Hitler Whence and Whither The Meaning of Hitlerism Sheila Kaye Smith nbsp United Kingdom 4 February 1887 14 January 1956 novelist Joanna Godden The End of the House of Alard H L Mencken nbsp United States 12 September 1880 29 January 1956 cultural critic essayist satirist The American Language The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche A A Milne nbsp United Kingdom 18 January 1882 31 January 1956 novelist playwright poet Winnie the Pooh The House at Pooh Corner Edmund Clerihew Bentley nbsp United Kingdom 10 July 1875 30 March 1956 humorist mystery novelist poet Trent s Last Case Trent s Own Case Arthur Talmage Abernethy nbsp United States 10 October 1872 15 May 1956 poet theologian The Hell You Say A Novel The Jew a Negro Being a Study of the Jewish Ancestry from an Impartial Standpoint Max Beerbohm nbsp United Kingdom 24 August 1872 20 May 1956 caricaturist humorist novelist parodist Zuleika Dobson The Happy Hypocrite Ion Călugăru nbsp Romania 14 February 1902 22 May 1956 novelist short story writer Copilăria unui netrebnic The Childhood of a Ne er do well Oțel și piine Steel and Bread Walter de la Mare nbsp United Kingdom 25 April 1873 22 June 1956 children s writer horror writer Memoirs of a Midget Collected Stories for Children Nicos Nicolaides nbsp Greece 3 April 1884 24 June 1956 dramatist short story writer painter To Stravoxylo The Peevish Fellow O Skelethras Diegimata B The Skeleton Short Stories Book 2 Gottfried Benn nbsp Germany 2 May 1886 7 July 1956 essayist poet Morgue und andere Gedichte Morgue and other Poems Doppelleben Double Life Giovanni Papini nbsp Italy 9 January 1881 8 July 1956 novelist short story writer philosopher Gog Il crepuscolo dei filosofi The Twilight of the Philosophers Bertolt Brecht nbsp Germany 10 February 1898 14 August 1956 playwright poet The Threepenny Opera The Flight Across the Ocean Michael Ventris nbsp United Kingdom 12 July 1922 6 September 1956 classics scholar philologist Documents in Mycenaean Greek Introducing the Minoan Language A L Zissu nbsp Romania 25 January 1888 6 September 1956 dramatist essayist novelist polemicist Nu există cult mozaic No Such Thing as a Mosaic Religion Calea Calvarului The Path of Calvary Hans Carossa nbsp Germany 15 December 1878 12 September 1956 novelist poet Stella Mystica Ungleiche Welten Unequal Worlds Pio Baroja nbsp Spain 28 December 1872 30 October 1956 novelist The Tree of Knowledge Memorias de un Hombre de Accion Memories of a Man of Action Pio Baroja nbsp Spain 28 December 1872 30 October 1956 novelist The Tree of Knowledge Memorias de un Hombre de Accion Memories of a Man of Action B R Ambedkar nbsp India 14 April 1891 6 December 1956 economist political writer journal writer Castes in India Their Mechanism Genesis and Development The Buddha and His Dhamma Arthur Grimble nbsp United Kingdom 11 June 1888 13 December 1956 travel writer memoirist A Pattern of Islands Return to the Islands Robert Walser nbsp Switzerland 15 April 1878 25 December 1956 novelist poet short story writer Jakob von Gunten Der Gehulfe The Assistant Entering the public domain in the United States editSee also Public domain in the United States In the United States the copyright status of works extends for the life of the author or artists plus 70 years 3 4 If the work is owned by a corporation then the copyright extends 95 years 5 Due to the passing of the Copyright Term Extension Act Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act in 1998 no new works would enter the public domain in this jurisdiction until 2019 6 See also edit1936 in literature and 1956 in literature for deaths of writers Public Domain Day Creative CommonsReferences edit EU Extends Copyright Term To 70 Years Billboard Billboard biz 2011 09 12 Archived from the original on 2013 01 06 Retrieved 2014 01 07 Directive 2006 116 EC What Could Have Entered the Public Domain Duke University School of Law S 505 One Hundred Fifth Congress of the United States of America at the Session Session An act to amend the provisions of title 17 United States Code with respect to the duration of copyright and for other purposes PDF U S Copyright Office Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States Copyright Information Center United States Copyright Law Archived from the original on 2014 08 01 Retrieved 2012 06 02 External links editWinnie the Pooh the Public Domain and Winnie s Canadian Connection Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php 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