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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 2030. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.
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 |
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| Darryl F. Zanuck |  United States
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5 September 1902 | 22 December 1979 | Filmmaker |
United States
[edit]Since Donald Duck and Clara Cluck debuted in 1934 in the Silly Symphony cartoon The Wise Little Hen and Mickey Mouse cartoon Orphan's Benefit respectively, they will become public domain in 2030.
The most famous feature films of 1934 entering the public domain in 2030 are Frank Capra's Best Picture Academy Award-winner It Happened One Night starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, which is known for its famous hitchhiking scene, and the Laurel and Hardy adaptation of Babes in Toyland, which is also known under its alternative title March of the Wooden Soldiers.
Other notable films entering the public domain in 2030 include Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra, W. S. Van Dyke's The Thin Man and Forsaking All Others, the musical film Stand Up and Cheer! which marked the breakthrough of child actress Shirley Temple, Little Miss Marker, Victor Fleming's adaptation of Treasure Island, Mark Sandrich's The Gay Divorcee starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, John Ford's Judge Priest starring Will Rogers, Lloyd Bacon's Here Comes the Navy and Raymond Bernard's adaptation of Les Miserables.
In music, popular Christmas song Winter Wonderland by Felix Bernard and Richard Bernhard Smith will enter public domain in 2030, this version does not include later 1947 lyrics intended for a child audience that change the snowman from Parson Brown to a circus clown.