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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 2004. 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, 2004.

NamesCountryBirthDeathOccupationNotable work
J. M. Robertson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 14 November 18565 January 1933politician, journalist.Trade and Tariffs, The Fallacy of Saving – A Study in Economics, History of Freethought in the Nineteenth Century, Pagan Christs – Studies in Comparative Hierology, The Historical Jesus: A Survey of Positions, The Jesus Problem: Restatement of the Myth Theory, Jesus and Judas
Hugo Zöller Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 12 January 18521933explorer, journalist.Rund um die Erde, Die Deutschen im brasilianischen Urwald, Pampas und Anden
George Moore Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 24 February 185221 January 1933novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Confessions of a Young Man , Esther Waters
Sara Teasdale Flag of the United States.svg  United States 8 August 188429 January 1933 lyric poet.Love Songs, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, Helen of Troy and Other Poems, Rivers to the Sea
John Galsworthy Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 14 August 186731 January 1933novelist, playwright. The Forsyte Saga , The Silver Box , A Modern Comedy, End of the Chapter
Takiji Kobayashi Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 13 October 190320 February 1933novelist, proletarian literature writer. Kani Kōsen (The Crab Cannery Ship), Fuzaijinushi (The Absentee Landlord), March 15, 1928, Life of a Party Member, The Dogs That Kill Men
Earl Derr Biggers Flag of the United States.svg  United States 26 August 18845 April 1933novelist, playwright, detective fiction writer, journalist. The House Without a Key , The Chinese Parrot , Behind That Curtain , The Black Camel
E. W. Hobson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 27 October 185619 April 1933 mathematician.The theory of functions of a real variable and the theory of Fourier's series, Mathematics, from the points of view of the Mathematician and of the Physicist, John Napier and the Invention of Logarithms, 1614, The Theory of Spherical and Ellipsoidal Harmonics
Janet Milne Rae Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 8 July 184424 April 1933novelist, missionary.Morag: A Tale of Highland Life, Geordie's Tryst: A Tale of Scottish Life, A Bottle in the Smoke: A Tale of Anglo-Indian Life, The Awakening of Priscilla
Constantine P. Cavafy Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 29 April 186329 April 1933poet, journalist, civil servant. Waiting for the Barbarians , Ithaca , In Sparta , The God Abandons Antony , Kaisarion
Anna de Noailles Flag of France.svg  France 15 November 187630 April 1933novelist, poet, autobiographer.Les Innocentes, ou La Sagesse des femmes, Le Livre de ma vie, Les Vivants et les Morts, Les Forces éternelles
Leonard Huxley Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 11 December 18603 May 1933 biographer, magazine editor, schoolteacher.Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch
John Henry Mackay Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 6 February 186416 May 1933 anarchist philosopher, sports novelist. Die Anarchisten (The Anarchists: A Picture of Civilization at the Close of the Nineteenth Century), Leidenschaft(The Swimmer: The Story of a Passion), Die Bücher der namenlosen Liebe von Sagitta (Sagitta's Books of the Love without a Name), Der Freiheitsucher (The Freedom Seeker), Der Puppenjunge (The Hustler).
Horatio Bottomley Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 23 March 186026 May 1933 nationalist politician, World War I-era propagandist, magazine editor, newspaper proprietor, journalist, financier, fraudster.Founder of John Bull , co-founder of Financial Times , regular writer of the column series The World, the Flesh and the Devil, writer of Why Not a Women's Parliament?
Dragutin Domjanić Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 12 September 18757 June 1933poet, writer of puppet plays Fala, Popevke sam slagal, Petrica Kerempuh and the Smart Ass
Anthony Hope Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 9 February 18638 July 1933 adventure fiction writer, playwright The Prisoner of Zenda , Rupert of Hentzau , Tales of Two People , A Man of Mark, The Dolly Dialogues
Alexandru Philippide Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 1 May 185912 August 1933 linguist, philologist, university professor, polemicist Introducere în istoria limbei și literaturei române (Introduction to the History of Romanian Language and Literature), Gramatică elementară a limbii române (Elementary Grammar of the Romanian Language), Un specialist român la Lipsca (A Romanian Specialist at Leipzig),

Originea românilor (The Origin of the Romanians)

Annie Besant Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 1 October 184720 September 1933political writer, Theosophist, women's rights activist, activist for both Irish and Indian Self-governance Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History, A Study in Consciousness: A contribution to the science of psychology., Esoteric Christianity, Man's Life in This and Other Worlds, The Life and Teaching of Muhammad, Sins of the Church: Threatenings and Slaughters
György Almásy Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 11 August 186723 September 1933 zoologist, ornithologist, ethnographer Madártani betekintés a román Dobrudzsába(Ornithological investigation into the Romanian Dobruja),Utazásom orosz Turkesztánba (My Journey to Russian Turkestan), Vándor-utam Ázsia szívébe (My Travels to the Heart of Asia)
Ring Lardner Flag of the United States.svg  United States 6 March 188525 September 1933sports columnist, novelist, short-story writer, satirist regular writer for the column series In the Wake of the News, wrote You Know Me Al , Haircut , Alibi Ike , Elmer, the Great , June Moon
Pascal Poirier Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 15 February 185225 September 1933politician, historian, lawyerL'Origine des Acadiens, Les Acadiens de Philadelphie, Le Père Lefebvre et l'Acadie, Le Parler franco-acadien et ses origines
G. R. S. Mead Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 22 March 186328 September 1933historian, translator, magazine editor, Theosophist Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, Did Jesus Live 100 BC?, Thrice Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis, The Mysteries Of Mithra, The Chaldæan Oracles, Gnostic John the Baptizer: Selections from the Mandæan John-Book
Herminie Templeton Kavanagh Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 6 May 186130 October 1933short-story writer, playwrightDarby O'Gill and the Good People, Ashes of Old Wishes and Other Darby O'Gill Tales, The Color Sergeant, Swift-Wing of the Cherokee
F. Holland Day Flag of the United States.svg  United States 23 July 186423 November 1933 photographer, publisherThe Seven Last Words
Augustine Birrell Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 19 January 185020 November 1933politician, essayist, humorist, college professorObiter Dicta, Res Judicatae: Papers and Essays, More Obiter Dicta, Things Past Redress, Eight Years of Tory Government, 1895-1903; home affairs; handbook for the use of liberals
Minnie Earl Sears Flag of the United States.svg  United States 17 November 187328 November 1933 librarian, cataloguer, bibliographer writer of the Sears List of Subject Headings and the List of Subject Headings for Small Libraries, editor of the Standard Catalog for Public Libraries and the Standard Catalog for High School Libraries, co-editor of the Essay and General Literature Index
Annie Armitt Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 185030 November 1933novelist, poet, short story writer, essayistThe Garden at Monkholme, In Shallow Waters, Man and His Relatives: A Question of Morality
Stefan George Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 12 July 18684 December 1933 symbolist poet, translatorDer Krieg (The War), Das neue Reich (The New Realm), Die Bücher der Hirten- und Preisgedichte, der Sagen und Sänge, und der hängenden Gärten(The Books of Eclogues and Eulogies, of Legends and Lays, and of the Hanging Gardens), Der siebente Ring (The Seventh Ring)
Robert W. Chambers Flag of the United States.svg  United States 26 May 186516 December 1933short-story writer, supernatural horror writer, weird fiction writer The King in Yellow , The Maker of Moons , The Mystery of Choice , The Tree of Heaven
Georgina Castle Smith Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 9 May 184527 December 1933children's writerNothing to Nobody, Froggy's Little Brother, Five Little Partridges, or, The Pilot's House, The Secret Terror
Jennie M. Bingham Flag of the United States.svg  United States 16 March 185927 June 1933short-story writer, poet, biographerA Grain of Mustard Seed, Melissa's Successful Failure, Margy's Holy Grail, Charlotte Brontë, Rembrandt and His Picture, The Anatomy Lesson

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
Rachilde Flag of France.svg  France 11 February 18604 April 1953novelist, playwright Monsieur Vénus , La Marquise de Sade, La Jongleuse
Idris Davies Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 6 January 19056 April 1953poetGwalia Deserta(Wasteland of Wales), The Angry Summer: A Poem of 1926, Tonypandy and other poems
C. E. M. Joad Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 12 August 18919 April 1953philosopher, political activist, New Party propagandist, BBC broadcasting personality, parapsychologist, ghost hunter, teacherGuide to Modern Thought, Guide to Philosophy, Under the Fifth Rib, The Rational Approach to Conscription, The Meaning of Life As Shown in the Process of Evolution, The Story of Indian Civilisation, Man's Superiority to the Beasts : Liberty Versus Security in the Modern State
Gordon Hall Gerould Flag of the United States.svg  United States 187710 April 1953 philologist, folklorist, university professorSir Guy of Warwick, The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story, Saints' Legends, The Ballad of Tradition
Alice Milligan Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 4 September 186513 April 1953dramatist, novelist, nationalist political activist, columnist, poetregular writer of the column series Notes from the North, writer of The Last Feast of the Fianna: A Dramatic Legend, The Daughter of Donagh: A Cromwellian Drama in Four Acts, Sons of the Sea King, The Dynamite Drummer, Oisin in Tir-nan-Og, Glimpses of Erin: An Account of the Ancient Civilisation, Manners, Customs, and Antiquities of Ireland
Alfred Vierkandt Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 4 June 186724 April 1953 sociologist, ethnographer, social psychologist, social philosopher, philosopher of history Naturvölker und Kulturvölker. Ein Beitrag zur Socialpsychologie, Allgemeine Verfassungs- und Verwaltungsgeschichte, Programm einer formalen Gesellschaftslehre (Program for a formal theory of society), Der Dualismus im modernen Weltbild
Moelona Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 21 June 18775 June 1953novelist, translator, children's writer, textbook writerRhamant Nyrs Bivan (Nurse Bevan's Romance), Alys Morgan, Teulu Bach Nantoer (The Little Family of Nantoer), Breuddwydion Myfanwy (The Dreams of Myfanwy)
Richard Jebb Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 187425 June 1953journalist, military writer, army instructor
Elsa Beskow Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 11 February 187430 June 1953children's writer, illustrator Tale of the Little Little Old Woman, Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender, Children of the Forest, Grandma's quilt, Buddy's Adventures in the Blueberry Patch, Talented Annika
Julia de Burgos Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 17 February 19146 July 1953poet, journalist, political activistPoema para Mi Muerte (My Death Poem), Yo Misma Fui Mi Ruta (I Was My Own Path), Alba de Mi Silencio (Dawn of My Silence)
Hilaire Belloc Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 27 July 187016 July 1953politician, historian, poet, satirist, biographer, travel writer, encyclopedist Cautionary Tales for Children , The Bad Child's Book of Beasts , The Servile State , The Four Men: A Farrago , Europe and the Faith, The Jews, The Crusades: the World's Debate
J. H. M. Abbott Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 26 December 187412 August 1953novelist, short-story writer, poet, journalistTommy Cornstalk : Being Some Account of the Less Notable Features of the South African War from the Point of View of the Australian Ranks, The King's School and Other Tales for Old Boys, Castle Vane : A Romance of Bushranging on the Upper Hunter in the Olden Days, Sydney Cove : A Romance of the First Fleet, Sally : The Tale of a Currency Lass
Maurice Nicoll Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 19 July 188430 August 1953 neurologist, psychiatrist, esoteric teacher, novelist, short-story writer, dramatistPsychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, Dream Psychology, Lord Richard in the Pantry, Cupid Goes North, In Mesopotamia, Half a Ton of Dynamite, An Awkward Situation
Eirik Vandvik Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 19041953literature professor, classical scholar, medievalist, dictionary writerGreek tragedy, Iliad
Ivan Bunin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 22 October 18708 November 1953 realist novelist, short-story writer, diarist The Village , Dry Valley , The Life of Arseniev , Dark Avenues , Cursed Days
John van Melle Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 11 February 18878 November 1953novelist, war fiction writer, schoolteacherBart Nel
Dylan Thomas Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 27 October 19149 November 1953poet, dramatist, scriptwriter for radio Do not go gentle into that good night , And death shall have no dominion , Under Milk Wood , A Child's Christmas in Wales , Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
Eugene O'Neill Flag of the United States.svg  United States 16 October 188827 November 1953 realist playwright Long Day's Journey into Night , Ah, Wilderness! , Beyond the Horizon , The Emperor Jones , Strange Interlude
T. F. Powys Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 20 December 187527 November 1953novelist, short-story writer Mr. Weston's Good Wine , Unclay , The Soliloquy of a Hermit, An Interpretation of Genesis, Mr Tasker's Gods, The House With the Echo: Twenty-six Stories
Francis Picabia Flag of France.svg  France 22 January 187930 November 1953 avant-garde painter, writer, publisher, filmmaker, ballet writer The Spring , La Nuit Espagnole (The Spanish Night) , The Double World , Relâche , screenwriter for the film Entr'acte
Claude Scudamore Jarvis Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 20 July 18798 December 1953colonial governor, Arabist, naturalist, columnistregular writer of the column series A Countryman's Notes, wrote Yesterday and To-day in Sinai, The Back Garden of Allah, Through Crusader Lands, Heresies and Humours, The forty years' wandering of the Israelites
Lulah Ragsdale Flag of the United States.svg  United States 5 February 186126 December 1953novelist, dramatist, poet, actressThe Crime of Philip Guthrie, The Hand of Angèle, A Shadow's Shadow, The Little Ghost, Miss Dulcie from Dixie, The Next-Besters, The Dream Woman
Tan Khoen Swie Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia c. 18831953publisher, writer, mystic Eponymous founder of the publishing company Tan Khoen Swie Publishing Company, also published books under his own name which compiled texts from a variety of anonymous sources.

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. [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

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. "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. "United States Copyright Law". Archived from the original on 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2012-06-02.