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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 2002. 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, 2002.

NamesCountryBirthDeathOccupationNotable work
L. Adams Beck Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 18623 January 1931fantasy writer, novelist, short story writer, biographer, esotericist The Openers of The Gate and Other Stories of the Occult, The Splendour of Asia: The Story and Teaching of the Buddha, The Way of Power: Studies in the Occult, The Divine Lady: A Romance of Nelson and Emma Hamilton, The Thunderer: A Romance of Napoleon and Joséphine
Henry Gauthier-Villars Flag of France.svg France 8 August 185912 January 1931novelist, music critic, literary editorCo-writer and editor of the novel series Claudine in collaboration with his wife Colette [3] , marketed a line of dolls based on the novels.
Graça Aranha Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil 21 June 186826 January 1931 modernist writer, novelist, dramatist, essayist, diplomat, judgeCanaã, Malazarte, Estética da Vida (An Aesthetics of Life)
Ida B. Wells Flag of the United States.svg United States 16 July 186225 March 1931 investigative journalist, sociologist, educator Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases, The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
Arnold Bennett Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 27 May 186727 March 1931novelist, short story writer, dramatist, diarist Anna of the Five Towns , The Old Wives' Tale , The Clayhanger Family , Riceyman Steps
André Michelin Flag of France.svg France 16 January 18534 April 1931industrialist, engineerEponymous founder and publisher of the guide book series Michelin Guide [4]
Kahlil Gibran Flag of the United States.svg United States 6 January 188310 April 1931poet, visual artist, philosopher The Prophet , The Madman , The Earth Gods
Nérée Beauchemin Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada 20 February 185029 June 1931poetLes Floraisons Matutinales (The Morning Blossoming), Patrie intime: Harmonies (Intimate Homeland: Harmonies)
Harald Høffding Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark 11 March 18432 July 1931philosopher, theologian, university professor Søren Kierkegaard as Philosopher , Den nyere Filosofis Historie (History of Modern Philosophy), Psychology, the Problems of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Vasile Cijevschi Flag of Romania.svg Romania 17 October 188014 July 1931 Orientalist, nationalist politician, polemicist, journalistFounder and owner of the Russian-language newspaper Golos Kishinyova, editor of the regional Russian-language newspaper Nashe Slovo (Our Word), [5] wrote the short story Unei prietene (To a Lady Friend)
Bertha McNamara Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 28 September 18531 August 1931labour activist, political writer, booksellerHome Talk on Socialism, Commercialism and Distribution of the Nineteenth Century, Forgery and Workingmen's Homes, How to Become Rich Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, Shylock Exposed
Delfín Chamorro Flag of Paraguay.svg Paraguay 24 December 186315 August 1931language teacher, grammarian, poetGrammar Castellana
Frank Harris Flag of the United States.svg United States 14 February 185626 August 1931 memoirist, novelist, short story writer, publisher, editor My Life and Loves , The Bomb , The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life Story, The Veils of Isis, and Other Stories, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions, My Reminiscences as a Cowboy
Hall Caine Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 14 May 185331 August 1931novelist, dramatist, short story writer, poet, critic, World War I-era propagandist The Christian , She's All the World to Me: A Novel , The Manxman , The Master of Man: The Story of a Sin , The Woman of Knockaloe: A Parable
Sue A. Sanders Flag of the United States.svg United States 25 March 18428 September 1931teacher, social leader, diaristA journey to on and from the "golden shore"
Matilda Cugler-Poni Flag of Romania.svg Romania 2 April 18519 September 1931poet, short story writer, comedy writerUnei tinere fete (To a Young Girl), Un tutor
Jane Meade Welch Flag of the United States.svg United States 11 March 185430 September 1931historian, journalistThe War of 1812, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, The Territorial Development of the United States, The Marking of Historic Sites on the Niagara Frontier
Ernst Didring Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden 18 October 186813 October 1931 naturalist writer, novelist, leader of the Swedish Red Cross Malm (iron ore), Grålöga—Trilogin (former life in the Stockholm archipelago ), Världsspindeln (The World's Spider), Det mörkblå frimärket (The Dark Blue Stamp)
Arthur Schnitzler Flag of Austria.svg Austria 15 May 186221 October 1931 Modernist writer, novelist, dramatist Professor Bernhardi , Der Weg ins Freie (The Road into the Open), Reigen , Fräulein Else
Lucas Malet Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 4 June 185227 October 1931novelist, short story writer, ghost story writer, fiction writer about sadomasochism The Wages of Sin, The History of Sir Richard Calmady, Colonel Enderby's Wife, The Gateless Barrier
Juan Zorrilla de San Martín Flag of Uruguay.svg Uruguay 28 December 18553 November 1931poet Tabaré , La leyenda patria (The Fatherland Legend), Himno al Arbol (Hymn to the Tree)
Ole Edvart Rølvaag Flag of the United States.svg United States 22 April 18765 November 1931novelist Giants in the Earth [6] , Peder Seier (Peder Victorious), Den Signede Dag (Their Father's God)
Xu Zhimo Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China 15 January 189719 November 1931poet, translator, founder of the literary society Crescent Moon Society Zaibie Kangqiao (Taking Leave of Cambridge Again)
Vachel Lindsay Flag of the United States.svg United States 10 November 18795 December 1931poet, illustrator, writer on film criticism The Art of the Moving Picture, Rhymes To Be Traded For Bread, The Jazz Birds, The Congo, Every Soul A Circus
Enrico Corradini Flag of Italy.svg Italy 20 July 186510 December 1931novelist, dramatist, essayist, journalist, nationalist political writerIl volere d'Italia (Italy's Desire), L'ora di Tripoli (Tripoli's Moment), La patria lontana (The Distant Fatherland), La guerra lontana (The Distant War), Julius Caesar: A Play in Five Acts
Melvil Dewey Flag of the United States.svg United States 10 December 185126 December 1931librarian, educator, founder of the Columbia University School of Library Service eponymous creator of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, founder and editor of the Library Journal , writer of Librarianship as a profession for college-bred women. An address delivered before the Association of collegiate alumnæ, on March 13, 1886, by Melvil Dewey and Statistics of libraries in the state of New York numbering over 300 volumes
Alfred Perceval Graves Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland 22 July 184627 December 1931poet, songwriter, folklorist, president of the Irish Literary Society Father O'Flynn, Songs of Old Ireland, Irish Songs and Ballads, Irish Folk-Songs, Songs of Erin [7]
Ieronim Yasinsky Flag of Russia.svg Russia 30 April 185031 December 1931novelist, poet, literary critic, essayist, science fiction writer, children's writer The Kiev Stories, Natashka, The Sleeping Beauty, Irinarkh Plutarkhov, The Old Friend, The Great Man, Under Satan's Cloak

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
Maila Talvio Flag of Finland.svg Finland 17 October 18716 January 1951novelist, short story writer, dramatist, non-fiction writer on the temperance movement Aili, Kaksi rakkautta, Kansan seassa, Pimeän pirtin hävitys
René Guénon Flag of France.svg France 15 November 18867 January 1951writer on metaphysics, esotericist, Sufist The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times , Introduction to the Study of the Hindu doctrines, Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta, The Symbolism of the Cross
Sinclair Lewis Flag of the United States.svg United States 7 February 188510 January 1951novelist, short-story writer, playwright. Main Street , Babbitt , Arrowsmith , Elmer Gantry , Dodsworth , It Can't Happen Here
James Bridie Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 3 January 188829 January 1951playwright, screenwriter, physician. A Sleeping Clergyman , Mary Read , Daphne Laureola , wrote the screenplays for the films The Paradine Case , Under Capricorn , and Stage Fright
Lloyd C. Douglas Flag of the United States.svg United States 27 August 187713 February 1951 historical novelist, Lutheran and Congregationalist minister The Robe , The Big Fisherman , Magnificent Obsession , Home for Christmas
Henri-René Lenormand Flag of France.svg France 3 May 188216 February 1951playwright, popularized Freudian theories of psychoanalysis La Grande Mort, Le Réveil de l'instinct, Les Ratés, Confessions d'un auter dramatique
André Gide Flag of France.svg France 22 November 186919 February 1951Novelist, essayist, dramatist The Immoralist , Strait Is the Gate , The Pastoral Symphony , The Counterfeiters , The Fruits of the Earth
Vsevolod Vishnevsky Flag of Russia.svg Russia 21 December 190028 February 1951playwright, screenwriter, journalist, war correspondent An Optimistic Tragedy , We Are from Kronstadt , Battle at West, By the Walls of Leningrad, We, Russian People
János Zsupánek Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary 6 January 186111 March 1951poet, hymn writer Magyar dalok (Hungarian Songs), Vu iméni Ocsé, i Sziná, i Dühá, szvétoga Ámen (In the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen), Mrtvecsne peszmi (Dirges), Szenje blázsene device Marie (The Fair of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Novine)
Oscar Micheaux Flag of the United States.svg United States 2 January 188425 March 1951novelist, film director, independent film producer The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer, The Forged Note, The Homesteader: A Novel, The Wind from Nowhere, Masquerade, a Historical Novel
Henrik Visnapuu Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia 2 January 18903 April 1951playwright, Symbolist poet, school teacher, freelance journalist Amores, Ad astra, Mare Balticum, Linnutee
Sadegh Hedayat Flag of Iran.svg Iran 17 February 19039 April 1951 Modernist writer, novelist, short story writer, satirist, poet, translator The Blind Owl , The Stray Dog , The Benefits of Vegetarianism [8] , Three Drops of Blood
Henry de Vere Stacpoole Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland 9 April 186312 April 1951 romance novelist, memoirist, translator, conservation movement activist focusing on the protection of seabirds The Blue Lagoon , The Garden of God , The Gates of Morning , The Beach of Dreams: A Story of the True World
Ludwig Wittgenstein Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 26 April 188929 April 1951philosopher, lexicographer Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus , Some Remarks on Logical Form , Philosophical Investigations , Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough
Alphonse de Châteaubriant Flag of France.svg France 25 March 18772 May 1951novelist, fascist and Nazist political writer Monsieur des Lourdines , La Brière , ...Des saisons et des jours... Journal de l'auteur, 1911-1924, Fragments d'une confession – La sainteté
Paula von Preradović Flag of Austria.svg Austria 12 October 188725 May 1951poet, lyricist, diarist Land der Berge, Land am Strome (Land of the Peaks, Land by the Stream), Wiener Chronik, Die Versuchung des Columba, Pave und Pero
Hermann Broch Flag of Austria.svg Austria 1 November 188630 May 1951 Modernist writer, novelist, short story writer, non-fiction writer on mass psychology The Sleepwalkers , The Death of Virgil [9] [10] , The Guiltless, The Spell
Håkon Evjenth Flag of Norway.svg Norway 26 December 189410 June 1951short story writer, children's writer, jurist, ethnographer with research focused on the Sami culture Folk under fot, 3 på to og 2 på fire, På to og fire i Suonjo, Over kjølen i kano, En fiskergutt i Sameland
W. C. Sellar Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 27 December 189811 June 1951 humourist, history teacher, schoolmaster 1066 and All That , And Now All This, Horse Nonsense, Garden Rubbish and other Country Bumps, contributor to the humour magazine Punch
William Randolph Hearst Flag of the United States.svg United States 29 April 186314 August 1951newspaper publisher, politicianeponymous founder of the media conglomerate Hearst Communications, co-founder of the print syndication company King Features Syndicate [11] , founder and owner of the animation studio International Film Service which produced animated adaptations of the comic strips Krazy Kat , The Katzenjammer Kids , And Her Name Was Maud , Happy Hooligan , Jerry on the Job , Bringing Up Father , Abie the Agent , and Judge Rummy . [12]

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. [13] [14] If the work is owned by a corporation, then the copyright extends 95 years. [15]

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. [16]

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References

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  2. Directive 2006/116/EC
  3. Southworth, Helen (2004), The intersecting realities and fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette, Ohio State University Press, p. 111, ISBN   978-0-8142-5136-2
  4. Mayyasi, Alex (23 June 2016). "Why Does a Tire Company Publish the Michelin Guide?". Priceonomics. Archived from the original on 16 October 2016.
  5. Ileana-Stanca Desa, Dulciu Morărescu, Ioana Patriche, Adriana Raliade, Iliana Sulică, Publicațiile periodice românești (ziare, gazete, reviste). Vol. III: Catalog alfabetic 1919-1924, p. 651. Bucharest: Editura Academiei, 1987
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  7. Wikisource-logo.svg One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Graves, Alfred Perceval". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 383.
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  14. "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.
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