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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 2028. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works is not uniform.
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With the exception of Belarus (Life + 50 years) and Spain (which has a copyright term of Life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988), 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 For previously unpublished material, those who publish it first will have the publication rights for 25 years. In addition, several other countries in the world have a limit of 70 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator.
| Names | Country | Birth | Death | Occupation | Notable work |
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| Alfred Döblin |  Germany | 10 August 1878 | 26 June 1957 | Writer | Berlin Alexanderplatz |
| Nikos Kazantzakis |  Greece | 2 March 1883 | 26 October 1957 | Writer | Ασκητική. Salvatores dei , Captain Michalis , The Last Temptation of Christ , Zorba the Greek |
| František Kupka |  Czech Republic | 23 September 1871 | 24 June 1957 | Painter | The Cathedral (Katedrála) |
| Josef Lada | Czech Republic | 17 December 1887 | 14 December 1957 | Painter, illustrator and writer | Kater Mikesch , illustrations for The Good Soldier Švejk |
| Diego Riviera |  Mexico | 8 December 1886 | 24 November 1957 | Painter | Man at the Crossroads |
| Jean Sibelius |  Finland | 8 December 1865 | 20 September 1957 | Composer | List of compositions by Jean Sibelius |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder |  United States | 7 February 1867 | 10 February 1957 | Writer | Little House on the Prairie |
| John von Neumann |  Hungary United States | 28 December 1903 | 8 February 1957 | Mathematician, physicist, computer scientist | List of scientific publications by John von Neumann |
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In Bangladesh, India, and Venezuela a work enters the public domain 60 years after the creator's death.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Escott |  New Zealand | 9 July 1908 | 15 August 1977 | Author | Show Down |
| Edmond Hamilton | United States | 21 October 1904 | 1 February 1977 | Author | Captain Future |
| H. H. Hollis | United States | 7 October 1921 | 1977 | SF Author | "The Guerrilla Trees" |
| Vladimir Nabokov |  Russia | 22 April 1899 | 2 July 1977 | Author | Lolita |
| Anaïs Nin |  France | 21 February 1903 | 14 January 1977 | Author | Delta of Venus |
| Elvis Presley | United States | 8 January 1935 | 16 August 1977 | Musician | Jailhouse Rock |
| H. A. Rey | Germany | 16 September 1898 | 26 August 1977 | Author | Curious George |
| Dennis Wheatley |  United Kingdom | 8 January 1897 | 10 November 1977 | Author | The Devil Rides Out |
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Spain has a copyright term of life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988. In Colombia and Equatorial Guinea a work enters the public domain 80 years after the creator's death.
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Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1932, films released in 1932, and other works published in 1932, will enter the public domain in 2028. [1] Sound recordings that were published in 1927 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1957 will also enter the public domain.
Among the films that will enter the public domain in 2028 are the original Scarface , The Mummy with Boris Karloff, Tarzan the Ape Man with Johnny Weissmuller, Best Picture Academy Award-winner Grand Hotel , Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express with Marlene Dietrich, Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise , The Music Box starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Katharine Hepburn's film debut A Bill of Divorcement , Shirley Temple's film debut The Red-Haired Alibi , the earliest still under copyright Looney Tunes short films, Horse Feathers with the Marx Brothers, Tod Browning's Freaks , Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr , Jean Renoir's Boudu Saved from Drowning , Yasujirō Ozu's I Was Born, But... , the first Mexican sound film Santa , the oldest surviving Marathi language sound film Ayodhyecha Raja , Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees , and Mickey's Revue with the first appearance of Goofy.
Examples of important literary works entering the public domain include Aldous Huxley's Brave New World , William Faulkner's Light in August , Samuel Becket's Dream of Fair to Middling Women , Graham Greene's Stamboul Train , Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon , Zelda Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz , John Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven , Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot detective novel Peril at End House , John Dos Passos's Nineteen Nineteen , Robert E. Howard's first Conan the Barbarian short story The Phoenix on the Sword , Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods , Herge's Tintin in America in its original French unedited black-and-white version and W. E. Johns’ first Biggles-collection The Camels Are Coming.
Important artworks entering the public domain include Pablo Picasso's Nude in a Black Armchair and Nude, Green Leaves and Bust , Oskar Schlemmer's painting Bauhaus Stairway , Otto Dix's triptych The War , Henri Matisse's mural The Dance II , David Alfaro Siqueiros' fresco América Tropical , Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals , Alberto Giacometti's sculpture The Palace at 4 a.m. , photograph Lunch atop a Skyscraper , Man Ray's photograph Larmes and some of the earliest professional photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson including Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare and Hyères, France .
Copyright expiry in Australia depends on when a work was created, and on the type of work. Under the current law, copyright usually expires 70 years after the death of the author, or for anonymous works, 70 years from the date of publication. Crown copyright expires 50 years after publication. The law has evolved over the years, and previously photographs were treated differently from other works. Anonymous works and photographs created before 1955 are no longer under copyright. For non-photographic works created before 1955, where the author is known, the copyright expires 50 years after the death of the author.
Works are in the public domain if they are not covered by the intellectual property right known as copyright, or if the intellectual property rights to the works have expired. Works automatically enter the public domain when their copyright has expired. The United States Copyright Office is a federal agency tasked with maintaining copyright records.
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