2021 in public domain

When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of creators whose works entered the public domain in 2021. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.

Entering the public domain in countries with life + 70 years

With the exception of Belarus (where the copyright protection is life + 50 years) ^{[1] : Art. 22(1)} and Spain (which has a copyright term of 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. For previously unpublished material, those who publish it first will have the publication rights for 25 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator that entered the public domain on 1 January 2021.

Names	Country	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Henry H. Arnold	United States	15 January 1950	General	Published works
Octave-Louis Aubert	France	14 January 1950	Writer, journalist	Le Livre de la Bretagne
Irving Bacheller	United States	24 February 1950	Writer, journalist	Eben Holden
Sergei Bakhrushin	Russia	8 March 1950	Historian
Miklós Bánffy	Hungary	5 June 1950	Nobleman, politician, writer	A Transylvanian Tale
Pavel Bazhov	Russia	3 December 1950	Writer	The Malachite Box
Max Beckmann	Germany	27 December 1950	Painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor
William Rose Benét	United States	4 May 1950	Writer, poet, editor	Saturday Review of Literature , The Reader's Encyclopedia
Lev Berg	Russia	24 December 1950	Geographer, biologist and ichthyologist
Ben Black	United States	26 December 1950	Composer, lyricist	"Moonlight and Roses"
Léon Blum	France	30 March 1950	Politician	Les Problèmes de la Paix
Ambrogio Bollati  [ it ]	Italy	26 March 1950	General, Historian	Works
D. K. Broster	United Kingdom	7 February 1950	Novelist	The Flight of the Heron
Herbert Ashwin Budd	United Kingdom	1950	Painter
Joe Burke	United States	9 June 1950	Songwriter, Composer, pianist	"Dancing With Tears in My Eyes", "Painting the Clouds With Sunshine", "Rambling Rose", "Tip-Toe Through the Tulips"
Edgar Rice Burroughs	United States	19 March 1950	Author of adventure and science fiction	Tarzan and Barsoom
J. Carlos	Brazil	2 October 1950	Cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer, sculptor
Basilio Cascella	Italy	24 July 1950	Artist	Il bagno della pastora  [ it ]
Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao	Spain	7 January 1950	Painter
Neville William Cayley	Australia	17 March 1950	Ornithologist & artist	"What Bird is That?", 1931
Francesco Cilea	Italy	20 November 1950	Composer	L'arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur
Leôncio Correia (pt)	Brazil	19 June 1950	Lawyer, politician, writer and journalist
Erle Cox	Australia	20 November 1950	Journalist and science fiction writer	Out of the Silence
Walter Damrosch	United States	22 December 1950	Composer
Frank Parker Day	Canada	30 July 1950	Author and academic
Warwick Deeping	United Kingdom	20 April 1950	Author	Sorrell and Son
Buddy DeSylva	United States	11 July 1950	Songwriter	Avalon, Look For the Silver Lining, Somebody Loves Me
Edward d'Evry	United Kingdom	25 December 1950	Composer
Lancelot de Mole	Australia	6 May 1950	Engineer & inventor	Tracked armoured vehicle, 1911
Clément Doucet	Belgium	15 October 1950	Composer, pianist
Anatoly Drozdov (ru)	Russia	10 September 1950	Composer, pianist
Theodor Duesterberg	Germany	4 November 1950	Politician	The Steel Helmet and Hitler
Walter Eucken	Germany	20 March 1950	Economist	Works
Percy Keese Fitzhugh	United States	5 July 1950	Author of children and young adult literature
Yevgeny Gunst	Russia	30 January 1950	Composer
John Gould Fletcher	United States	10 May 1950	Poet	Selected Poems
Ernest Haycox	United States	13 October 1950	Author of Western fiction
John Rippiner Heath	United Kingdom	23 December 1950	Doctor, musician, composer	Three Macedonian Sketches
William Hovgaard	Denmark United States	5 January 1950	Professor, Writer	Submarine Boats, The Voyages Of The Norsemen To America
Heydar Huseynov	Azerbaijan	15 August 1950	Philosopher	Dialectical Materialism
Rex Ingram	United States	2 July 1950	Film director, producer, writer and actor	The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , The Prisoner of Zenda
George Cecil Ives	United Kingdom	4 June 1950	Writer, penal reformer	English Prisons Today
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze	Switzerland	1 July 1950	Composer, music educator
Johannes V. Jensen	Denmark	25 November 1950	Author	The Long Journey
Charles L. Johnson	United States	28 December 1950	Composer
Al Jolson	United States	23 October 1950	Songwriter
Eddie Kilfeather	United States	13 January 1950	Composer
Alfred Korzybski	Russian Empire United States	1 March 1950	Engineer and founder of Institute of General Semantics	Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky	Russia	28 December 1950	Writer
Harold Laski	United Kingdom	24 March 1950	Political theorist, economist	A Grammar of Politics
Harry Lauder	United Kingdom	26 February 1950	Comedian, Singer/songwriter	Roamin' in the Gloamin'
Lilian Sophia Locke	Australia	1 July 1950	Suffragette & Trade-unionist	Secretary of the United Council for Woman's Suffrage, 1890s
Heinrich Mann	Germany	11 March 1950	Writer	Professor Unrat
Edgar Lee Masters	United States	5 March 1950	Writer	Spoon River Anthology
F. O. Matthiessen	United States	1 April 1950	literary critic	American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
Marcel Mauss	France	10 February 1950	Sociologist	The Gift
Ernest John Moeran	United Kingdom	1 December 1950	Composer
Alfred Edward Moffat	United Kingdom	6 June 1950	Composer, collector of music	Meister-Schule der alten Zeit
Edna St Vincent Millay	United States	19 October 1950	Poet, playwright	Renascence
Ali Moustafa Mosharafa	Egypt	16 January 1950	Theoretical physicist
Lewis Muir	United States	19 January 1950	Songwriter	Ragtime Cowboy Joe
Pavel Muratov	Russia	5 February 1950	Writer, art historian	Images of Italy
Nikolai Myaskovsky	Russia	8 August 1950	Composer	Symphony No. 6 (Myaskovsky)
Vaslav Nijinsky	Russia	8 April 1950	Ballet dancer and choreographer	Diary
George Orwell	United Kingdom	21 January 1950	Journalist and author	Animal Farm , Nineteen Eighty-Four also see George Orwell bibliography
Cesare Pavese	Italy	27 August 1950	Writer, translator	The Moon and the Bonfires
Max Pemberton	United Kingdom	22 February 1950	Novelist of adventure and mystery literature
Octávio Pinto	Brazil	31 October 1944	Composer, architect
Ernest Poole	United States	10 January 1950	Writer	His Family
Gustaf John Ramstedt	Russian Empire Finland	25 November 1950	Explorer, linguist, diplomat	Seitsemän retkeä itään
R. R. Ryan	United Kingdom	18 October 1950	Author
Eliel Saarinen	Russian Empire Finland United States	1 July 1950	Architect	Works
Rafael Sabatini	Italy United Kingdom	13 February 1950	Writer	The Sea Hawk , Scaramouche , The Odissey of Captain Blood , Bellarion the Fortunate
Theophrastos Sakellaridis	Greece	2 January 1950	Composer, conductor	Ο Βαφτιστικός
Guðjón Samúelsson	Iceland	25 April 1950	Architect	Hallgrímskirkja, National Theatre of Iceland, Akureyrarkirkja
Joseph Schumpeter	Austria	8 January 1950	Economist	Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Milton Schwarzwald	United States	2 March 1950	Director, composer
George Bernard Shaw	United Kingdom Ireland	2 November 1950	Writer	Man and Superman , Pygmalion , Saint Joan
Adaline Shepherd	United States	12 March 1950	Composer
Forrest Shreve	United States	19 July 1950	Botanist	Works
Martinus Sieveking	Netherlands	26 November 1950	Composer, music teacher
Jan Smuts	South Africa	11 September 1950	Statesman, military leader, and philosopher	Holism and Evolution
John M. Stahl	United States	12 January 1950	Film Director and Producer	Father Was a Fullback
Olaf Stapledon	United Kingdom	6 September 1950	Philosopher and science fiction author	Star Maker , Last and First Men and Odd John
Henry L. Stimson	United States	20 October 1950	Politician	Democracy And Nationalism In Europe
Tatiana Sukhotina-Tolstaya	Russia	21 September 1950	Painter and memoirist
Attilio Teruzzi	Italy	26 April 1950	Politician	Cirenaica Verde
Trilussa	Italy	21 December 1950	Poet	Works
Orhan Veli Kanık	Turkey	14 November 1950	Poet	Garip, Collected Poems
Xavier Villaurrutia	Mexico	25 December 1950	Poet, Playwright	Works
Archibald P. Wavell	United Kingdom	24 May 1950	General	Generals And Generalship
Kurt Weill	Germany	3 April 1950	Composer	The Threepenny Opera
Yi Gwangsu	South Korea	25 October 1950	Writer, independence activist	Heartless

Entering the public domain in countries with life + 80 years

Spain (for creators that died before 1987), Colombia and Equatorial Guinea have a copyright term of life + 80 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes one notable work that entered the public domain on 1 January 2021 for each creator.

List of authors

Names	Country	Death	Occupation	Notable work
J.-H. Rosny aîné	France	11 February 1940	Writer	The Quest for Fire
Xerardo Álvarez Limeses  [ es ]	Spain	1940	Teacher, writer
Manuel Azaña	Spain	1940	Politician, political writer, Prime Minister
Julián Besteiro	Spain	27 September 1940
E. F. Benson	United Kingdom	29 February 1940	Writer, archaeologist	Mapp and Lucia
Mikhail Bulgakov	Russia	10 March 1940	Writer, playwright, medical doctor	The Master and Margarita
Rafael Flores Nieto  [ es ]	Spain	25 November 1940	Flamenco singer and guitarist
Philip Francis Nowlan	United States	1 February 1940	Writer	Armageddon 2419 A.D.
F. Scott Fitzgerald	United States	21 December 1940	Novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer	This Side of Paradise , The Beautiful and Damned , The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night
Carlos Gómez Carrera  [ es ]	Spain	28 June 1940	Cartoonist
Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent  [ es ]	Spain	1940	Playwright	Bibliography
Louis J. Panella	United States	3 March 1940	Composer
Enrique Peinador  [ es ]	Spain	1940	Businessman
Indalecio Varela Lenzano  [ es ]	Spain	1940	Musicologist, music critic
María Vinyals	Spain	1940	Publicist, essayist

Countries with life + 60 years

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

Names	Country	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Chris van Abkoude	Netherlands	2 January 1960	Writer, Novelist	Pietje Bell
Vai. Mu. Kothainayaki Ammal	India	20 February 1960	Novelist
Lady Cynthia Asquith	United Kingdom	31 March 1960	Author and editor	This Mortal Coil
Rajshekhar Basu	India	27 April 1960	Chemist
Eric Temple Bell	United Kingdom United States	21 December 1960	Mathematician and science fiction writer
Albert Camus	France	4 January 1960	Philosopher, author	The Stranger
A. Chakravarti	India	10 February 1960	Professor
Indira Devi Chaudhurani	India	12 August 1960	Musician
Sudhindranath Dutta	India	25 June 1960	Poet, journalist
Victor Rousseau Emanuel	United Kingdom	6 April 1960	Author
John Russell Fearn	United Kingdom	18 September 1960	Author
M. Raghava Iyengar	India	1960	Literary scholar
Jigar Moradabadi	India	9 September 1960	Poet	Yeh Hai Maikada
Bal Krishna Sharma Naveen	India	29 April 1960	Poet, journalist, activist
Elsie J. Oxenham	United Kingdom	9 January 1960	Children's novelist	Abbey Series of books
Boris Pasternak	Russia	30 May 1960	Poet, author	Doctor Zhivago
Eden Phillpotts	United Kingdom	29 December 1960	Author, poet and dramatist	The Farmer's Wife
Kesari Balakrishna Pillai	India	18 December 1960	Literary critic, journalist	Kesari
Nathuram Premi	India	30 January 1960	Poet, publisher
Navaratna Rama Rao	India	1960	Political leader, scholar
Sushila Samad	India	10 December 1960	Poet, journalist
Sripada Krishnamurty Sastry	India	29 December 1960	Poet	Mahamahopadhyaya
Kshitimohan Sen	India	12 March 1960	Professor
Acharya Chatursen Shastri	India	2 February 1960	Writer	Dharamputra
Krishnalal Shridharani	India	23 July 1960	Poet, playwright
Nevil Shute	United Kingdom	12 January 1960	Aeronautical engineer, novelist	On the Beach
Victor Sjöström	Sweden	3 January 1960	Film director, actor	The Phantom Carriage
C. J. Thomas	India	14 July 1960	Playwright, academic, artist
Dadasaheb Torne	India	19 January 1960	Film director	Shree Pundalik

Entering 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.

Names	Country	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Abdul Hosein Amini	Iran	3 July 1970	Theologian	Al-Ghadir
Rita Angus	New Zealand	25 January 1970	Painter	Cass
Shmuel Yosef Agnon	Israel	17 February 1970	Writer	The Bridal Canopy
Fernando Arbello	Puerto Rico	26 July 1970	Musician
Otto Baecker	Germany	22 May 1970	Cinematographer	Gold
Archibald Baxter	New Zealand	10 August 1970	Socialist, pacifist	We Will Not Cease
William Beaudine	United States	18 March 1970	Film director, actor	Boys Will Be Boys
George Blair	United States	19 April 1970	Film Director
R. V. C. Bodley	United Kingdom	26 May 1970	Army officer, author	Algeria From Within
Louise Bogan	United States	4 February 1970	Poet	Body of This Death
Vera Brittain	United Kingdom	29 March 1970	Writer	Testament of Youth
William J. Brown	United States	4 February 1970	Architect
Mohamed Fadhel Ben Achour	Tunisia	20 April 1970	Theologian	Works
Dulce Carman	New Zealand	1970	Author	Neath the Maori Moon
Rudolf Carnap	Germany	14 September 1970	Philosopher	Der Logische Aufbau der Welt
Choe Hyeon-bae	South Korea	23 March 1970	Educationalist	Selected publications
Émile Coderre  [ fr ]	Canada	6 April 1970	Poet	Works
Charles Cotton	New Zealand	29 June 1970	Geologist	Geomorphology of New Zealand
Mohamed Abdelaziz Djaït	Tunisia	5 January 1970	Theologian	Works
William Dobell	Australia	13 May 1970	Artist	Mr Joshua Smith
Guy Endore	United States	12 February 1970	Author, screenwriter	The Werewolf of Paris
E. M. Forster	United Kingdom	7 June 1970	Writer	Works
Babbis Friis-Baastad	Norway	10 January 1970	Children's writer	Ikke ta Bamse
Erle Stanley Gardner	United States	11 March 1970	Author, lawyer	Perry Mason series of books
Maurice Gemayel	Lebanon	31 October 1970	Politician	Tripoli and Decentralization
L. Wolfe Gilbert	United States	12 July 1970	Songwriter	Down Yonder
Rube Goldberg	United States	7 December 1970	Cartoonist, News reporter, Sculptor, Engineer
John Gunther	United States	29 May 1970	Author	Death Be Not Proud
Muhsin al-Hakim	Iraq	1970	Theologian	Minhaj as-Saleheen
Alice Hamilton	United States	22 September 1970	Physician, research scientist	Industrial Poisons in the United States
Lawren Harris	Canada	29 January 1970	Painter
Marlen Haushofer	Austria	21 March 1970	Writer
Erich Heckel	Germany	27 January 1970	Artist	Roquairol
Jimi Hendrix	United States	18 September 1970	Musician, singer-songwriter	"Purple Haze"
Roman Ingarden	Poland	14 June 1970	Philosopher	The Literary Work of Art
Michał Kalecki	Poland	18 April 1970	Economist	Próba teorii koniunktury
William Archibald Mackintosh	Canada	29 December 1970	Economist	Economic Problems Of The Prairie Provinces
Leopoldo Marechal	Argentina	26 June 1970	Writer	Adam Buenosayres
François Mauriac	France	1 September 1970	Writer	Thérèse Desqueyroux
Bruce McLaren	New Zealand	2 June 1970	Racing car driver	Bruce McLaren: From the Cockpit
Yukio Mishima	Japan	25 November 1970	Novelist, playwright, poet, writer, essayist, critic	Works
Gamal Abdel Nasser	Egypt	28 September 1970	Politician	Philosophy of Revolution
Charles Olson	United States	10 January 1970	Poet	Works
John Dos Passos	United States	28 September 1970	Novelist	U.S.A. trilogy
Waldo Peirce	United States	8 March 1970	Painter	Legends of the Hudson
Vladimir Propp	Russia	22 August 1970	Folklorist	Morphology of the Tale
Alf Prøysen	Norway	23 November 1970	Musician, Writer, Composer	Works
Erich Maria Remarque	Germany	25 September 1970	Novelist	All Quiet on the Western Front
Ali Riahi	Tunisia	27 March 1970	Musician
Gonzalo Roig	Cuba	13 June 1970	Composer	Cecilia Valdés
Mark Rothko	United States	25 February 1970	Abstract painter	Black on Maroon
Bertrand Russell	United Kingdom	2 February 1970	Philosopher, mathematician	Principia Mathematica
Nelly Sachs	German Empire Sweden	12 May 1970	Poet, Writer	Works
Ruth Sawyer	United States	3 June 1970	Writer	Roller Skates
Slim Harpo	United States	31 January 1970	Blues Musician	I'm a King Bee
William Stewart Wallace	Canada	11 March 1970	Historian	Encyclopedia of Canada
Hassan Taqizadeh	Iran	28 January 1970	Politician	Old Iranian Calendars
Sophie Treadwell	United States	20 February 1970	Playwright	Machinal
Jacob Viner	Canada	12 September 1970	Economist	Works
Otto Heinrich Warburg	Germany	1 August 1970	Physiologist	The Metabolism of Tumours
Leonard Wild	New Zealand	23 July 1970	Agricultural scientist, writer	An Experiment in Self-government, Soils and Manures in New Zealand
Harry M. Woods	United States	14 January 1970	Songwriter	When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)
Abraham Zapruder	United States	30 August 1970	Clothing manufacturer	Zapruder film
Mahmoud Zulfikar	Egypt	22 May 1970	Director	Filmography

Entering the public domain in Australia

See also: Copyright law of Australia

In 2004 copyright in Australia changed from a "plus 50" law to a "plus 70" law, in line with the United States and the European Union. However, the change was not made retroactive (unlike the 1995 change in the European Union which brought the works of those who died from 1925 to 1944 back into copyright). Hence the work of an author who died before 1955 is normally in the public domain in Australia; but the copyright of authors was extended to 70 years after death for those who died in 1955 or later, and no more Australian authors would come out of copyright until 1 January 2026 (those who died in 1955).

Unpublished works by authors who died in 1950 entered the public domain. ^[2] Any published literary, artistic, dramatic, or musical work (other than computer programs) by a not generally known author (anonymous or pseudonymous) from 1950 also entered the public domain.

Names	Country	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Cyril Tenison White	Australia	16 August 1950	Botanist/Explorer	Made significant contributions to knowledge of the flora of Queensland and northern New South Wales, and was regarded as an authority on tropical plants.
Erle Cox	Australia	20 November 1950	Writer	"Out of the Silence"
Dame Mary Cook	Australia	24 September 1950	Social Work	Vice President of the "War Chest Society" and President of the "Parramatta Branch of the Red Cross Society"
Frank Brennan	Australia	6 November 1950	Politician	Noted Pacifist
Ted Colson	Australia	27 February 1950	Anthropologist	Crossing of the Simpson Desert
Ian Morrison	Australia	12 August 1950	Journalist	"This War against Japan : Thoughts on the Present Conflict in the Far East" 1944
Andrew Oswald Wilson	Australia	19 June 1950	Architect	Boulder Town Hall
George Ainsworth	Australia	11 October 1950	Meteorologist & photographer	Leader of the Macquarie Island party of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, December 1911 to November 1913
Neville William Cayley	Australia	17 March 1950	Ornithologist & artist	"What Bird is That?", 1931
Lilian Sophia Locke	Australia	1 July 1950	Suffragette & Trade-unionist	Secretary of the United Council for Woman's Suffrage, 1890s
Lancelot de Mole	Australia	6 May 1950	Engineer & inventor	Tracked armoured vehicle, 1911
Ada May Plante	Australia	3 July 1950	Painter	Founding exhibitor at Pioneering Post-Impressionist Melbourne Contemporary Group, 1932
Beaumont Smith	Australia	2 January 1950	Film director	"Our Friends the Hayseeds", 1917
Horace Stevens	Australia	18 November 1950	Opera singer	Samuel Coleridge Taylor's "Hiawatha" London premiere, 1924
Clas Edvard Friström	Australia	27 March 1950	Painter	Exhibited 53 paintings with the Queensland Art Society, 1899-1902
Constance Elizabeth Darcy	Australia	25 April 1950	Gynaecologist	Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London
Gustavus Athol Waterhouse	Australia	29 July 1950	Entomologist	"The butterflies of Australia", 1914 and "What butterfly is that? A guide to the butterflies of Australia", 1932
Alexandrine Seager	Australia	12 March 1950	Businessperson	Founded the Cheer-Up Society to provide comfort and entertainment for World War One soldiers
Ted Theodore	Australia	9 February 1950	Politician	State president, Queensland Australian Workers' Union

Entering the public domain in the United States

See also: Public domain in the United States

The Great Gatsby entered the public domain in the US in 2021.

Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1925, films released in 1925, and other works published in 1925, entered the public domain in 2021. ^[3] While sound recordings in general remained copyrighted (this was their last year before entering the public domain under the Music Modernization Act), ^[4] all musical compositions published in 1925 entered the public domain in 2021. Additionally, unpublished works whose authors died in 1950 entered the public domain.

Notable books that entered the public domain in 2021 in the United States include The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway, The Trial by Franz Kafka in its original German, An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos, The New Negro by Alain Locke (a collection of works from such writers as W. E. B. Du Bois, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Eric Walrond), Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis, The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie, Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley, The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs by Dorothy Scarborough, The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton, and A Daughter of the Samurai by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto. ^[5]

Notable films that entered the public domain include Harold Lloyd's The Freshman , The Merry Widow , Stella Dallas , Buster Keaton's Go West , His People , Lovers in Quarantine , Pretty Ladies , and the original silent version of The Unholy Three . ^[5] Notable songs that entered include Irving Berlin's song "Always", "Sweet Georgia Brown", George and Ira Gershwin's song "Looking for a Boy", Rodgers and Hart's song "Manhattan", "Ukulele Lady", and "Yes Sir, That's My Baby". ^[5] Various songs by Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Jelly Roll Morton, W. C. Handy, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Bessie Smith, Lovie Austin, Sidney Bechet, Fletcher Henderson, and Sippie Wallace also entered the public domain, as did Amy Beach's compositions The Singer and Song in the Hills. ^[5]

See also

• List of American films of 1925
• List of countries' copyright lengths
• Public Domain Day
• Creative Commons
• Public Domain
• Over 300 public domain authors available in Wikisource (any language), with descriptions from Wikidata
• 1920 in literature and 1970 in literature

References

1. Law 194-3 of 11 August 1998
2. "New copyright duration changes coming". Australian Government-Department of Communications & The Arts. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
3. "Copyright and the Public Domain". Public Domain Information Project. Archived from the original on 1 August 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
4. Hirtle, Peter B. (3 January 2020). "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States". Cornell University Library Copyright Information Center. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
5. Jenkins, Jennifer (12 December 2020). "Public Domain Day 2021". Center for the Study of the Public Domain. Duke University. Archived from the original on 31 December 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2022.

Further reading

• Jennifer Jenkins (December 2020), Public Domain Day 2021, US: Duke Law School Center for the Study of the Public Domain
• Alexis Rossi (15 December 2020), "January 1st brings public domain riches from 1925", Archive.org , US

External links

• "Authors by Year of Death - 1950". AuthorAndBookInfo.com.
• Popular Books of 1925 at Goodreads