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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 2001. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.

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Entered the public domain in countries with life + 70 years

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, 2001.

NamesCountryBirthDeathOccupationNotable work
Iso Mutsu Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 18671930historian, travel writerKamakura: Fact and Legend
Edward Bok Flag of the United States.svg United States 9 October 18639 January 1930magazine editor, non-fiction writerWhy I Believe in Poverty, The Americanization of Edward Bok, A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After, A Man from Maine
Johannes Gillhoff Flag of Germany.svg Germany 24 May 186116 January 1930teacher, researcher of the expressions and speech patterns of Low German, novelistMecklenburgischen Volksrätseln (Mecklenburg folk riddles), Jürnjakob Swehn der Amerikafahrer (Jürnjakob Swehn, the Traveler to America), Mecklenburgischen Monatshefte (Mecklenburg monthly notes)
Rebecca Latimer Felton Flag of the United States.svg United States 10 June 183524 January 1930 white supremacist politician, activist for prison reform, women's suffrage and education reform,My Memoirs of Georgia Politics, Country Life in Georgia in the Days of my Youth, The Romantic Story of Georgia's Women
Alice Williams Brotherton Flag of the United States.svg United States 4 April 18489 February 1930poet, essayist, children's writer, literary scholar, specialist on the works of William Shakespeare Beyond the veil, What the wind told to the tree-tops, The sailing of King Olaf : and other poems, The real Hamlet and the Hamlet oldest of all, Debasing the Poetic Coinage the Quality and Function of Poetry
George Haven Putnam Flag of the United States.svg United States 2 April 184427 February 1930publisher, president of the publishing company G. P. Putnam's Sons, activist for copyright protection for authors, memoirist, children's writer Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages, Censorship of the Church of Rome and Its Influence Upon the Production and Distribution of Literature, A Prisoner of War in Virginia, Memories of a Publisher, Some Memories of the Civil War, The Little Gingerbread Man
Joseph Wright Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 31 October 185527 February 1930 Germanic philologist, university professor, lexicographer The English Dialect Dictionary , An Old High-German Primer, A Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill in the West Riding of Yorkshire: Illustrated by a Series of Dialect Specimens, Phonetically Rendered; with a Glossarial Index of the Words Used in the Grammar and Specimens, A Primer of the Gothic Language, The English Dialect Grammar, comprising the dialects of England, of the Shetland and Orkney islands, and of those parts of Scotland, Ireland & Wales where English is habitually spoken, Comparative Grammar of the Greek Language
C. K. Scott Moncrieff Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 25 September 188928 February 1930short story writer, satirist, translator, literary criticEvensong and Morwe Song, The Strange and Striking Adventure of Four Authors in Search of a Character, 1926
D. H. Lawrence Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 11 September 18852 March 1930novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic Sons and Lovers , The Rainbow , Women in Love , Lady Chatterley's Lover
Alois Jirásek Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czechoslovakia 23 August 185112 March 1930history teacher, historical novelist, playwright Ancient Bohemian Legends , Mezi proudy (Between the Currents), Proti všem , The Philosophers' Story or Psohlavci
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman Flag of the United States.svg United States 31 October 185213 March 1930short story writer, novelist, ghost story writer A New England Nun , Pembroke , Collected Ghost Stories , co-writer of The Whole Family
Alfred Williams Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 7 February 187710 April 1930poet, prose writer, collector of folk song lyricsLife in a Railway Factory, Songs in Wiltshire
Sigurd Ibsen Flag of Norway.svg Norway 23 December 185914 April 1930politician, Prime Minister of Norway in Stockholm, lawyer, political writer Unionen, founder of the magazine Ringeren
Vladimir Mayakovsky Flag of Russia.svg Russia 19 July 189314 April 1930poet, playwright, poster artist, manifesto co-writer for Russian Futurism A Cloud in Trousers , Backbone Flute , The Bedbug , The Bathhouse
John B. Sheridan Flag of the United States.svg United States 22 January 187014 April 1930 sports journalist, whistleblower regular writer of the sports column Back of Home Plate
Robert Bridges Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 23 October 184421 April 1930poet, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, playwright, hymn writer, literary critic, World War I propagandist for the War Propaganda Bureau Milton's Prosody , Humdrum and Harum-Scarum , Eros and Psyche , The Feast of Bacchus, Achilles in Scyros, The Return of Ulysses, Demeter: A Mask, Prometheus the Firegiver: A Mask in the Greek Manner
Jeppe Aakjær Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark 10 November 186622 April 1930novelist, playwright, poet, member of the Jutland Movement Bondens Søn (The Peasant's Son), Vredens børn, et tyendes saga (Children of Wrath: A Hired Man's Saga),Arbejdets Glæde (The Joy of Work), Jens Langkniv, Rugens sange (Songs of the Rye), Heimdal's Wanderings
Maria Polydouri Flag of Greece.svg Greece 1 April 190229 April 1930poet, representative of Neo-romanticism, diarist, theatrical actress, dressmaker The Pain of the Mother, The Chirps that faint, Echo over chaos
William John Locke Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 20 March 186315 May 1930short story writer, novelist, playwright The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne , The Beloved Vagabond , The Glory of Clementina Wing , The Adventure of the Fickle Goddess
Florence Bell Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 9 September 185116 May 1930playwrightA Collection of Plays and Monologues for the Drawing Room, At the Works: Study of a Manufacturing Town, Middlesbrough, The Heart of Yorkshire, The Letters of Gertrude Bell Vol 1 and 2, Petit theâtre des enfants: twelve tiny french plays for children
Herbert Croly Flag of the United States.svg United States 23 January 186917 May 1930 political philosopher, intellectual leader of the progressive movement, biographer The Promise of American Life , Progressive Democracy, Marcus Alonso Hanna: His Life and Work, The Effect on American Institutions of a Powerful Military and Naval Establishment
Arthur St John Adcock Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 17 January 18649 June 1930novelist, poet, journalist, magazine editor, one of the "Cockney school novelists" who imitated Charles Dickens [3] East End Idylls, An unfinished martyrdom and other stories, In The Wake of the War, Songs of the War, The Luck of Private Foster: A Romance of Love and War, The World that Never Was. A London Fantasy, Australasia Triumphant! With the Australians and New Zealanders in the Great War on Land And Sea, For Remembrance. Soldier Poets who have Fallen in the War. With nineteen portraits
Herbert Warren Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 21 October 18539 June 1930academic, college president, college rugby football player, poetBy Severn Sea and Other Poems, The Death of Virgil
Israel Gollancz Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 13 July 186323 June 1930literary scholar, specialist on the works of William Shakespeare, college professor, translatorco-founder of the British Academy and director of the Early English Text Society, editor of the "Temple" Shakespeare collection of Shakespeare's works and of the anthology A Book of Homage to Shakespeare, article writer for the Dictionary of National Biography
Arthur Conan Doyle Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 22 May 18597 July 1930writer in the fields of crime fiction, detective fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction A Study in Scarlet , Micah Clarke , The Mystery of Cloomber , The Sign of the Four , The White Company , The Great Shadow , The Hound of the Baskervilles , The Lost World , The Land of Mist
Pavlos Karolidis Flag of Greece.svg Greece c. 184926 July 1930historian, politicianKappadokika, a historical and archaeological dissertation on Cappadocia, History of the 19th Century, Universal or World History, The Ethnic Ancestry of the Orthodox Christians of Syria and Palestine, Contemporary History
Lucien Wolf Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 20 January 185723 August 1930historian, diplomat, journalistThe Russian Conspiracy or Russian Monopoly in Opposition to Britain Interest in the East, Menasseh ben Israel’s Mission to Oliver Cromwell, The Myth of the Jewish Menace in World Affairs: The Truth about the Forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The Queen's Jewry 1837–1897
William Archibald Spooner Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 22 July 184429 August 1930 cleric, university don, lecturer on ancient history, divinity and philosophy, specialist on the works of Aristotle The Moral Philosophy Of Aristotle, Bishop Butler
Thomas Nicoll Hepburn Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 21 April 18611 September 1930novelist, biographer, poet, representative of the literary movement Kailyard school The Child World, Barncraig: Episodes in the Life of a Scottish Village, Sunshine and Haar: Some Further Glimpses of Life at Barncraig, Robert Burns, The Skipper of Barncraig
Vladimir Arsenyev Flag of Russia.svg Russia 10 November 18724 September 1930explorer of the Far East, travel writer, memoiristPo Ussuriyskomu krayu (Along the Ussuri land), Dersu Uzala, Skvoz taygu (Through the taiga)
Georges de Porto-Riche Flag of France.svg France 20 May 18495 September 1930dramatist, novelist, comedy writer Le Vertige, Les Deux Fautes, La Chance de Françoise, L'Infidèle, Amoureuse, Le Passé, Les Malefilâtre
Karam Singh British Raj Red Ensign.svg British India 18 March 188418 September 1930historian, poster artist, diaristBanda Bahadur, Katak Ki Visakh, Jeevan Harnaam Kaur, Maharaja Ala Singh
Arthur Way Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 13 February 184725 September 1930 classical scholar, translatorHomer, Greek through English, Sons of the Violet-Crowned, a Tale of Ancient Athens
Olena Pchilka Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine 29 June 18494 October 1930publisher, ethnographer, translator, collector of folk songs, newspaper editor Ukrainian Folk Ornament, To Ukrainian Children, Thoughts of a Net, Tovaryshky
Roy Horniman Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 31 July 186811 October 1930playwright, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, animal welfare and free speech activistIsrael Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal, The Sin of Atlantis, The Living Buddha, A Nonconformist Parson, Lord Cammarleigh's Secret: A Fairy Story of To-Day
James Surtees Phillpotts Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 18 July 183916 October 1930educational writer, classics scholar Stories from Herodotus in Attic Greek, King and Commonwealth: A History of Charles I and the Great Rebellion, Shakespeare's Tempest, Homer without a Lexicon for Beginners, Selections Adapted from Xenophon
William B. Hanna Flag of the United States.svg United States 5 January 186620 November 1930 sports journalist sports columns for various newspapers based in New York City, received posthumous recognition by the New York Baseball Writers Association
Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada 12 April 185521 November 1930 missionary, linguist, newspaper publisher Practical Chinook vocabulary, Prayers in the Okanagan language, Polyglott manual of prayers, Chinook rudiments
Florbela Espanca Flag of Portugal (official).svg Portugal 8 December 18948 December 1930poetO livro D'ele (His book), Livro de Mágoas (The Book of Sorrows), Livro de Soror Saudade (Sister Saudade's Book), Charneca em Flor (Heath in Bloom)
Neil Munro Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 3 June 186322 December 1930 historical novelist, short story writer, journalist, newspaper editor, literary critic The New Road , John Splendid, Doom Castle, The Daft Days
Marion Manville Pope Flag of the United States.svg United States 13 July 185922 December 1930 children's writer, poetOver the divide and other verses, Up the matterhorn in a boat, Between two gods : [an allegory],

Entered the public domain in countries with life + 50 years

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.

NamesCountryBirthDeathOccupationNotable work
Basil Williams Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 4 April 18675 January 1950historian The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham , Botha, Smuts and South Africa, The Whig Supremacy
Joseph Schumpeter Flag of Austria.svg Austria 8 February 18838 January 1950 political economist Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy , The theory of economic development: an inquiry into profits, capital, credit, interest, and the business cycle, Economic doctrine and method: an historical sketch, The sociology of imperialisms, Social classes in an ethnically homogeneous environment, Depressions: Can we learn from past experience?
George Orwell Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 26 June 190321 January 1950 dystopian fiction writer, novelist, essayist, journalist, critic Animal Farm , Nineteen Eighty-Four , The Road to Wigan Pier , Homage to Catalonia , Burmese Days
D. K. Broster Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 2 September 18777 February 1950 historical novelist, horror fiction writer, short-story writer The Flight of the Heron , "Mr. Rowl" , Couching at the Door: Strange and Macabre Tales, Clairvoyance, Juggernaut, The Pestering
Rafael Sabatini Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 29 April 187513 February 1950 romance and adventure novelist, short story writer, playwright The Sea Hawk , Scaramouche , Captain Blood , Bellarion the Fortunate
Irving Bacheller Flag of the United States.svg United States 26 September 185924 February 1950novelist, journalist Eben Holden , The Master of Silence, Still House of O'Darrow, The Light in the Clearing, A Man for the Ages, The Master of Chaos
Edgar Lee Masters Flag of the United States.svg United States 23 August 18685 March 1950novelist, dramatist, biographer, poet Spoon River Anthology , To-morrow is My Birthday, Across Spoon River: An Autobiography, Lincoln: The Man, Mark Twain: A Portrait, The Blood of the Prophets, The Fate of the Jury: An Epilogue to Domesday Book, The Tide of Time
Heinrich Mann Flag of Germany.svg Germany 27 March 187111 March 1950novelist Der Untertan , Professor Unrat , Die Jugend des Königs Henri Quatre, Die Vollendung des Königs Henri Quatre
Edgar Rice Burroughs Flag of the United States.svg United States 1 September 187519 March 1950writer in the genres of adventure fiction, science fiction, and fantasy A Princess of Mars , Thuvia, Maid of Mars , Llana of Gathol , Tarzan and the Lost Empire , Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar , Land of Terror , The Land That Time Forgot
Emmanuel Mounier Flag of France.svg France 1 April 190522 March 1950philosopher, theologian, representative of personalism Révolution personnaliste et communautaire, De la propriété capitaliste à la propriété humaine, Manifeste au service du personnalisme, Pacifistes ou Bellicistes, L'éveil de l'Afrique noire
Henric Streitman Flag of Romania.svg Romania 16 February 1870c. 30 March 1950politician, journalist, translatorÎntre da și nu (Between Yes and No), Mi se pare că... (Signs Point to...)

Entering the 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. [4] [5] If the work is owned by a corporation, then the copyright extends 95 years. [6]

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. [7]

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References

  1. "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.
  2. Directive 2006/116/EC
  3. Johnson, George Malcolm. "Ridge, William Pett". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/56888.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  4. "What Could Have Entered the Public Domain | Duke University School of Law".
  5. "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.
  6. "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States | Copyright Information Center".
  7. "United States Copyright Law". Archived from the original on 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2012-06-02.