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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 For previously unpublished material, those who publish it first will have the publication rights for 25 years.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.

Names Country Birth Death Occupation Notable work
André Chevrillon  France 3 May 1864 9 July 1957 Writer Publications
Miguel Covarrubias  Mexico 22 November 1904 4 February 1957 Painter, illustrator
Alfred Döblin  Germany 10 August 1878 26 June 1957 Writer Berlin Alexanderplatz
Jérôme Doucet [fr]  France 5 March 1865 1 February 1957 Writer Works
Virgilio Giotti  Italy 15 January 1885 21 September 1957 Poet Works
Heinrich Hoffman  Germany 12 September 1885 16 December 1957 Photographer
Léon Homo  France 16 December 1872 16 August 1957 Historian Works
Nikos Kazantzakis  Greece 2 March 1883 26 October 1957 Writer Ασκητική. Salvatores dei, Captain Michalis, The Last Temptation of Christ, Zorba the Greek
František Kupka  Czech Republic 23 September 1871 24 June 1957 Painter The Cathedral (Katedrála)
Josef Lada  Czech Republic 17 December 1887 14 December 1957 Painter, illustrator and writer Kater Mikesch, illustrations for The Good Soldier Švejk
Curzio Malaparte  Italy 9 June 1898 19 July 1957 Writer Main writings
Diego Riviera  Mexico 8 December 1886 24 November 1957 Painter Man at the Crossroads
José Lins do Rego  Brazil 3 July 1901 12 September 1957 Writer Novels
Umberto Saba  Italy 9 March 1883 26 August 1957 Novelist Works
Gaetano Salvemini  Italy 8 September 1873 6 September 1957 Politician Works
Jean Sibelius  Finland 8 December 1865 20 September 1957 Composer List of compositions by Jean Sibelius
Laura Ingalls Wilder  United States 7 February 1867 10 February 1957 Writer Little House on the Prairie
John von Neumann  Hungary
 United States
28 December 1903 8 February 1957 Mathematician, physicist, computer scientist List of scientific publications by John von Neumann

Countries with life + 60 years

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

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.

Names Country Birth Death Occupation Notable work
Margaret Escott  New Zealand 9 July 1908 15 August 1977 Author Show Down
Edmond Hamilton  United States 21 October 1904 1 February 1977 Author Captain Future
H. H. Hollis  United States 7 October 1921 1977 SF Author "The Guerrilla Trees"
Vladimir Nabokov  Russia 22 April 1899 2 July 1977 Author Lolita
Anaïs Nin  France 21 February 1903 14 January 1977 Author Delta of Venus
Elvis Presley  United States 8 January 1935 16 August 1977 Musician Jailhouse Rock
H. A. Rey  Germany 16 September 1898 26 August 1977 Author Curious George
Dennis Wheatley  United Kingdom 8 January 1897 10 November 1977 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.

United States

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Creative Commons-licensed fan art of Conan the Barbarian, 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.[1] 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, 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, Guy Endore's The Werewolf of Paris, 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, the first appearances of villain Bluto in E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre, 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.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Copyright and the Public Domain". Public Domain Information Project. Archived from the original on 2014-08-01.
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