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When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform. The following is a list of creators whose works enter the public domain in 2030 under the most common copyright regimes.
Except for Belarus (Life + 50 years) [1] 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. [2] [3] In addition, several other countries have a limit of 70 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator.
| Names | Country | Death | Occupation | Notable work |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maurice Allem |  France | 1 September 1959 | Philologist | Monographies |
| Marguerite Allotte de La Fuÿe | France | 8 April 1959 | Writer | Publications |
| Manuel Altolaguirre |  Spain | 26 July 1959 | Poet, screenwriter | Las islas invitadas y otros poemas (The Invited Isle and Other Poems), El triunfo de las germanías (The Triumph of the Brotherhood of the Guilds) |
| Maxwell Anderson |  United States | 28 February 1959 | Playwright, poet | Both Your Houses , Joan of Lorraine |
| Edwin Balmer | United States | 21 March 1959 | Author | When Worlds Collide |
| Jacques Bardoux | France | 15 August 1959 | Politician | Publications |
| Johan Bojer |  Norway | 3 July 1959 | Novelist, playwright | Den siste viking (The Last of the Vikings), Vor egen stamme(The Emigrants) |
| Louis Borgex | France | 1959 | Caricaturist | |
| Arnolt Bronnen |  Austria | 12 October 1959 | Playwright | Parricide, Birth of Youth |
| Emil František Burian |  Czech Republic | 9 August 1959 | Poet, playwright | Member of Osvobozené divadlo |
| Raymond Chandler | United States | 26 March 1959 | Detective fiction novelist, screenwriter | The Big Sleep , Farewell, My Lovely , Double Indemnity ; The Little Sister , The Long Goodbye |
| Claire Delbos | France | 22 April 1959 | Musician | Compositions |
| Laxmi Prasad Devkota |  Nepal | 14 September 1959 | Poet, playwright, novelist | Muna Madan , Shakuntala |
| Dominique Dunois | France | 16 January 1959 | Writer | Works |
| Apsley Cherry-Garrard |  United Kingdom | 18 May 1959 | Memoirist | The Worst Journey in the World |
| G. D. H. Cole | United Kingdom | 14 January 1959 | Political theorist, economist, historian, short story writer | The Brooklyn Murders, The Death of a Millionaire |
| Harry Eliott | France | 29 May 1959 | Painter | |
| W. W. Greg | United Kingdom | 4 March 1959 | Bibliographer, Shakespearean scholar | Dramatic Documents from the Elizabethan Playhouses, English Literary Autographs, 1550–1650 |
| Otfrid von Hanstein |  Germany | 17 February 1959 | Author | Works |
| Laurence Housman | United Kingdom | 20 February 1959 | Novelist, playwright, illustrator | An Englishwoman's Love-letters , Victoria Regina |
| Julien Josephson | United States | 14 April 1959 | Screenwriter | Lady Windermere's Fan , The Bat , Heidi , Wee Willie Winkie |
| Alfred Kubin | Austria | 20 August 1959 | Author and illustrator | The Other Side |
| Carlo Lombardo |  Italy | 19 December 1959 | Composer | Operettas |
| Edmond Loutil | France | 16 April 1959 | Journalist | Works |
| Edwin Muir | United Kingdom | 3 January 1959 | Poet, novelist | The Present Age from 1914, The Scots and Their Country |
| Luis Palés Matos |  Puerto Rico | 23 February 1959 | Poet | El palacio en sombras (The Palace in Shadows), Falsa canción de baquiné (False Song of a funeral for a child) |
| Benjamin Péret | France | 18 September 1959 | Poet | Le Passager du transatlantique, De derrière les fagots |
| Arthur Cecil Pigou | United Kingdom | 7 March 1959 | Economist | Major publications |
| Henri Pourrat | France | 16 July 1959 | Writer | Works |
| Sax Rohmer | United Kingdom | 1 June 1959 | Crime novelist, horror fiction writer | The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu , Brood of the Witch-Queen |
| Govind Sakharam Sardesai |  India | 21 November 1959 | Historian | |
| Alfred Schütz | Austria | 20 May 1959 | Philosopher, social phenomenologist | William James' Concept of the Stream of Consciousness Phenomenologically Interpreted, The Stranger |
| Edmond Sée | France | 12 November 1959 | Playwright | Works |
| André Siegfried | France | 28 March 1959 | Geographer | Works |
| Pauline Smith |  South Africa | 29 January 1959 | Novelist, short story writer, memoirist, playwright | The Little Karoo, The Beadle |
| Galaktion Tabidze |  Georgia | 17 March 1959 | Poet | The Wind Blows |
| José Vasconcelos |  Mexico | 30 June 1959 | Philosopher | La raza cósmica (The Cosmic Race) |
| Luigi Villari | Italy | 1959 | Historian | |
| Boris Vian | France | 23 June 1959 | Novelist | I Spit on Your Graves , Froth on the Daydream |
| Percy F. Westerman | United Kingdom | 22 February 1959 | Children's writer | King of Kilba |
In Bangladesh, India, and Venezuela a work enters the public domain 60 years after the creator's death.
| Names | Country | Death | Occupation | Notable work |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alejandro G. Abadilla |  Philippines | 26 August 1969 | Writer | Ako ang Daigdig |
| Sargis Abrahamyan |  Armenia | 15 June 1969 | Writer | With Generations |
| Theodor W. Adorno | Germany | 6 August 1969 | Philosopher | Theodor W. Adorno bibliography |
| Ricardo Aguirre |  Venezuela | 8 November 1969 | Singer, Composer | La Grey Zuliana |
| Ignacio Aldecoa | Spain | 15 November 1969 | Author | El fulgor y la sangre |
| Ikbal Ali Shah | India | 4 November 1969 | Writer, diplomat | Afghanistan of the Afghans |
| Edgar Anderson | United States | 18 June 1969 | Botanist | Introgressive Hybridization |
| Charlotte Armstrong | United States | 7 July 1969 | Author | A Dram of Poison |
| Marius Barbeau |  Canada | 27 February 1969 | Ethnographer | Downfall of Temlaham |
| Daniel E. Barbey | United States | 11 March 1969 | Naval Officer | MacArthur's Amphibious Navy |
| Arthur K. Barnes | United States | 11 March 1969 | Science-Fiction Writer | Works |
| Emilio Bigi |  Paraguay | 28 May 1969 | Musician | Renacer guarani |
| Charles Brackett | United States | 9 March 1969 | Novelist, Screenwriter | |
| Gabriel Chevallier | France | 6 April 1969 | Novelist | Clochemerle |
| Ivy Compton-Burnett | United Kingdom | 27 August 1969 | Novelist | Manservant and Maidservant |
| Richmal Crompton | United Kingdom | 11 January 1969 | Writer, Teacher | Just William series |
| Alexandra David-Néel |  Belgium France | 8 September 1969 | Explorer, Spiritualist | Mystiques et magiciens du Tibet |
| Aleksandr Deyneka |  Russia | 12 June 1969 | Artist | The Defense of Petrograd |
| Otto Dix | Germany | 25 July 1969 | Artist | The Trench |
| Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg | Germany | 5 August 1969 | explorer, politician | Ins innerste Afrika |
| Max Eastman | United States | 25 March 1969 | Writer | Reflections on the Failure of Socialism |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | United States | 28 March 1969 | Military Officer, statesman | Crusade in Europe |
| Abo El Seoud El Ebiary |  Egypt | 17 March 1969 | Playwright, songwriter | Afrita hanem |
| Olivia FitzRoy | United Kingdom | 24 December 1969 | Author of children's books | Orders to Poach |
| Botong Francisco | Philippines | 31 March 1969 | Muralist | The Progress of Medicine in the Philippines |
| Karl Freund | Germany | 3 May 1969 | Cinematographer, film director | The Mummy |
| Rómulo Gallegos | Venezuela | 5 April 1969 | Novelist, politician | Doña Bárbara |
| Witold Gombrowicz |  Poland | 24 July 1969 | Writer, playwright | Ferdydurke |
| Walter Gropius | Germany | 5 July 1969 | Architect | Bauhaus |
| Walter Hahn | Germany | 24 November 1969 | Photographer | Collection at Deutsche Fotothek |
| Wendell Hall | United States | 2 April 1969 | Singer-songwriter | It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' |
| Ho Chi Minh |  Vietnam | 2 September 1969 | President | Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam |
| Karl Jaspers | Germany | 26 February 1969 | Psychiatrist, Philosopher | General Psychopathology |
| Jack Kerouac | United States | 21 October 1969 | Writer | On the Road |
| Norman Lindsay |  Australia | 21 November 1969 | Artist, Writer | The Magic Pudding |
| Frank Loesser | United States | 28 July 1969 | Songwriter | Baby, It's Cold Outside , A Bushel and a Peck |
| Erika Mann | Germany | 27 August 1969 | Writer, actress | Zehn Millionen Kinder. Die Erziehung der Jugend im Dritten Reich |
| Gavin Maxwell | United Kingdom | 7 September 1969 | Author | Ring of Bright Water |
| Leo McCarey | United States | 5 July 1969 | Film director, screenwriter | The Bells of St. Mary's |
| Jimmy McHugh | United States | 23 May 1969 | Composer | South American Way |
| Atanasio Ndongo Miyone |  Equatorial Guinea | 26 March 1969 | Musician | Caminemos pisando las sendas de nuestra inmensa felicidad |
| Meher Baba | India | 31 January 1969 | Mystic | God Speaks |
| Mikio Naruse |  Japan | 2 July 1969 | Film director, screenwriter | Apart from You |
| Mutesa II of Buganda |  Uganda | 21 November 1969 | Statesman | The Desecration of My Kingdom |
| Seabury Quinn | United States | 24 December 1969 | Author, lawyer | Roads |
| August Sang |  Estonia | 14 October 1969 | Poet | Üks noormees otsib õnne |
| Muhammad Shahidullah |  Bangladesh | 13 July 1969 | Writer, philologist | Bangla Sahityer Katha |
| Ben Shahn | United States | 14 March 1969 | Artist | Jersey Homesteads Mural |
| Osbert Sitwell | United Kingdom | 4 May 1969 | Writer | Before the Bombardment |
| Josef von Sternberg | United States | 22 December 1969 | Film director | Shanghai Express |
| Leonard Woolf | United Kingdom | 14 August 1969 | writer, publisher | The Village in the Jungle |
| John Wyndham | United Kingdom | 11 March 1969 | Science-Fiction Writer | The Day of the Triffids , The Midwich Cuckoos |
| Stoyan Zagorchinov |  Bulgaria | January 1969 | Writer | Last Day, God's Day |
| Jorge Zalamea |  Colombia | 10 May 1969 | Writer, poet, journalist | El Sueño de las Escalinatas |
| Gostan Zarian | Armenia | 11 December 1969 | Poet, diarist | The Ship on the Mountain |
| Nairi Zarian | Armenia | 12 July 1969 | Poet, playwright | Արա Գեղեցիկ |
| Jerzy Zawieyski | Poland | 18 June 1969 | Playwright, novelist | Dobrze, że byli |
| Leane Zugsmith | United States | 13 October 1969 | Writer | Stories for The New Yorker |
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.
Spain has a copyright term of life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988. [4] In Colombia and Equatorial Guinea, a work enters the public domain 80 years after the creator's death.
| Names | Country | Death | Occupation | Notable work |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hervey Allen | United States | 28 December 1949 | Author | Anthony Adverse |
| Masaharu Anesaki | Japan | 23 July 1949 | Historian | History of Japanese Religion |
| Josef Maria Auchentaller | Austria | 31 December 1949 | Artist | Bunte Bände |
| Alice Bailey | United States | 15 December 1949 | Writer | Works |
| Hassan al-Banna | Egypt | 12 February 1949 | imam | Mudhakkirât al-da'wa wa al-dâ'iya |
| Philip Barry | United States | 3 December 1949 | Playwright | Holiday |
| Billy Baskette | United States | 8 November 1949 | Pianist, composer | Good Bye Broadway, Hello France |
| H. Bedford-Jones | United States | 6 May 1949 | Writer | The John Solomon series |
| Khalil Beidas |  Palestine | 1949 | novelist | Works |
| Federico Beltrán Masses | Spain | 4 October 1949 | Painter | |
| Friedrich Bergius | Germany | 30 March 1949 | Chemist | Bergius process |
| Elsa Bernstein | Austria | 2 July 1949 | Writer | Königskinder |
| Musa Bigiev | Russia | 28 October 1949 | Theologian | Selected works |
| Elisheva Bikhovski |  Israel | 27 March 1949 | Writer, Translator | Simta'ot |
| Leonard Bloomfield | United States | 18 April 1949 | Linguist | Selected publications |
| George Botsford | United States | 1 February 1949 | Composer | |
| Robert Boudrioz | France | 22 June 1949 | Film director, screenwriter | The Man with a Broken Ear |
| Umberto Brunelleschi | Italy | 16 February 1949 | Artist, Illustrator | |
| Guillermo Buitrago | Colombia | 19 April 1949 | Composer | La Vispera de Año Nuevo |
| Harry Burleigh | United States | 12 September 1949 | Composer, singer | settings of spirituals |
| Helen Churchill Candee | United States | 23 August 1949 | Writer, feminist | Angkor the Magnificent |
| Reg Carter | United Kingdom | 24 April 1949 | Cartoonist | Big Eggo |
| N. D. Cocea |  Romania | 1 February 1949 | Journalist, Novelist | Vinul de viață lungă |
| Richard Connell | United States | 22 November 1949 | Writer | The Most Dangerous Game |
| Carlo Conti Rossini | Italy | 1949 | Orientalist | Italia ed Etiopia dal trattato di Uccialli alla battaglia d'Adua |
| Dorothea Conyers |  Ireland | 25 May 1949 | Novelist | |
| Will Cuppy | United States | 19 September 1949 | Humorist | How to be a Hermit |
| Stoyan Danev | Bulgaria | 30 July 1949 | Jurist and politician | |
| Norman Davey | United Kingdom | 6 June 1949 | Engineer, Writer | The Pilgrim of a Smile |
| Félix d'Herelle | France | 22 February 1949 | Microbiologist | Published works |
| Georgi Dimitrov | Bulgaria | 2 July 1949 | Politician, revolutionary | Georgi Dimitrov bibliography |
| Grigoraș Dinicu | Romania | 28 March 1949 | Composer | Hora staccato |
| Ali Douagi |  Tunisia | 27 May 1949 | sketch artist | Sahirtu minhu al-layali |
| Alexander Drankov | Russia  Soviet Union | 3 January 1949 | photographer, cameraman, film producer | |
| William Price Drury | United Kingdom | 21 January 1949 | Writer, soldier, politician | The Flag Lieutenant |
| Inés Echeverría Bello |  Chile | 1949 | Writer | Entre Deux Mondes |
| Arthur Eichengrün | Germany | 23 December 1949 | Chemist | 50 Jahre Aspirin |
| James Ensor | Belgium | 19 November 1949 | Artist | Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 |
| Herbert Eulenberg | Germany | 4 September 1949 | Writer | Schattenbilder. Eine Fibel für Kulturbedürftige in Deutschland |
| August Fischer | Germany | 14 February 1949 | Orientalist | Arabische Chrestomathie aus Prosaschriftstellern |
| Victor Fleming | United States | 6 January 1949 | Film Director | The Wizard of Oz , Gone with the Wind |
| James Forrestal | United States | 22 May 1949 | Politician | The Forrestal Diaries |
| Nikolay Gamaleya | Russia | 29 March 1949 | Physician, microbiologist | |
| Henri Giraud | France | 11 March 1949 | General | Mes Evasions, Un seul but; la victoire: Alger 1942-1944 |
| Hari Singh Gour | India | 25 December 1949 | Jurist, educator, writer | The Penal Law of India |
| Martin Grabmann | Germany | 9 January 1949 | Priest, Historian | Thomas Aquinas: His Personality and Thought |
| Stanisław Grabski | Poland | 6 May 1949 | Economist, Politician | |
| Major Greenwood | United Kingdom | 5 October 1949 | Epidemiologist | Publications |
| Joan Lamote de Grignon | Spain | 11 March 1949 | Composer | La nit de Nadal |
| George Gurdjieff | Armenia | 29 October 1949 | spiritual teacher | The Herald of Coming Good |
| František Halas | Czech Republic | 27 October 1949 | Poet, translator | |
| Fritz Hart | United Kingdom | 9 July 1949 | Composer, conductor | |
| Syed Zafarul Hasan |  Pakistan | 19 June 1949 | Philosopher | Realism |
| Kunihiko Hashimoto | Japan | 6 May 1949 | Composer | Azami no Hana |
| Will Hay | United Kingdom | 18 April 1949 | Comedian, amateur astronomer | Through My Telescope |
| Burton J. Hendrick | United States | 23 March 1949 | Author | The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page |
| Johann Jakob Hess | Germany | 29 April 1949 | Egyptologist | Von den Beduinen des inneren Arabiens |
| Ludwig Hohlwein | Germany | 15 September 1949 | Poster artist | |
| William Jackson Humphreys | United States | 10 November 1949 | physicist | Bibliography |
| Otto Hupp | Germany | 31 January 1949 | graphical artist | Wappen und Siegel der deutschen Städte, Flecken und Dörfer |
| Douglas Hyde | Ireland | 12 July 1949 | linguist | The necessity for de-anglicising the Irish nation |
| Edmond Jaloux | France | 22 August 1949 | Novelist | Works |
| Josep Maria Jujol | Spain | 1 May 1949 | Architect | Casa Batlló, Park Güell |
| Clarence Jones | United States | 1 June 1949 | Composer | |
| Pierre Jouguet | France | 9 July 1949 | Egyptologist | Works |
| Unno Juza | Japan | 17 May 1949 | Writer of science fiction | |
| Anna Karima | Bulgaria | 6 March 1949 | Writer and translator | |
| Selâhattin Kantar |  Turkey | 17 November 1949 | playwright | Kara Dana |
| Kim Ku |  South Korea | 26 June 1949 | Politician | Diary of Kim Ku |
| Hans Kindler | United States | 30 August 1949 | Conductor, cellist, arranger of music | Recordings |
| Hugh Kingsmill | United Kingdom | 15 May 1949 | Writer, journalist | |
| Martin Knudsen |  Denmark | 27 May 1949 | Physicist | The Kinetic Theory of Gases |
| József Koszta |  Hungary | 29 July 1949 | Painter | Girl with Geraniums |
| August Krogh | Denmark | 13 September 1949 | Zoologist | The Respiratory Exchange of Animals and Man |
| Albert Christian Kruyt |  Netherlands | 19 January 1949 | Ethnographer | The Bare'e speaking Toraja of Central Sulawesi |
| Lead Belly | United States | 6 December 1949 | Musician, songwriter | Goodnight, Irene |
| Vasily Lebedev-Kumach | Russia | 20 February 1949 | Poet | The Sacred War |
| Fidelio Ponce de León |  Cuba | 19 February 1949 | Painter | Niňos |
| Albert Howe Lybyer | United States | 1949 | orientalist | The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Time of Suleiman the Magnificent |
| Carmen Lyra |  Costa Rica | 13 May 1949 | Writer | Cuentos De Mi Tia Panchita |
| Maurice Maeterlinck | Belgium | 6 May 1949 | Playwright | Works |
| René Maire | France | 24 November 1949 | botanist | Flore de l'Afrique du Nord |
| Jane Mander |  New Zealand | 20 December 1949 | Novelist | The Story of a New Zealand River |
| Klaus Mann | Germany | 21 May 1949 | Novelist | Mephisto |
| J. C. Mardrus | France | 1949 | Orientalist | Works |
| Wilhelm von Massow | Germany | 21 April 1949 | Archaeologist | Das römische Trier |
| Elton Mayo | Australia | 7 September 1949 | Psychologist | Publications |
| Ibrahim al-Mazini | Egypt | 1949 | Writer | Spider Webs |
| Stefan Meyer | Austria | 29 December 1949 | Physicist | Radioaktivität |
| Margaret Mitchell | United States | 16 August 1949 | Novelist | Gone with the Wind |
| Axel Munthe |  Sweden | 11 February 1949 | Psychiatrist | The Story of San Michele |
| Khalil Mutran |  Lebanon | 1 June 1949 | poet | |
| Sarojini Naidu | India | 2 March 1949 | Poet | Works |
| Vladimir Nazor |  Croatia | 19 June 1949 | Poet, politician | |
| Makino Nobuaki | Japan | 25 January 1949 | Statesman | Makino Nobuaki nikki |
| Vítězslav Novák | Czech Republic | 18 July 1949 | Composer | Bouře |
| Carlos Obligado |  Argentina | 3 February 1949 | Writer, critic | March of the Malvinas |
| Sidney Olcott | Canada | 16 December 1949 | Film director | The Pony Express |
| Francesco Pasinetti | Italy | 2 April 1949 | Film Director, screenwriter | The Canal of the Angels |
| Elin Pelin | Bulgaria | 3 December 1949 | Writer | |
| Una Pope-Hennessy | United Kingdom | 16 August 1949 | Historian | Secret Societies and the French Revolution |
| Camillo Praschniker | Austria | 1 October 1949 | Archaeologist | Archäologische Forschungen in Albanien und Montenegro |
| Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido | Venezuela | 25 July 1949 | politician | Works |
| Alfred Rehder | United States | 25 July 1949 | Botanist | Manual of Cultivated Trees and Shrubs, Hardy in North America |
| Albert Rehm | Germany | 31 July 1949 | Classical scholar | Mythographische Untersuchungen über griechische Sternsagen |
| Gennaro Righelli | Italy | 6 January 1949 | Film director, screenwriter | Svengali |
| Tod Robbins | United States | 1949 | writer | Works |
| Julius Ruska | Germany | 11 February 1949 | Orientalist | Al Razi (Rhases) als Chemiker |
| Antoun Saadeh | Lebanon | 8 July 1949 | Politician | Nushu' al-Umam |
| E. Robert Schmitz | France | 5 September 1949 | Composer | The Piano works of Claude Debussy |
| Paul Schultze-Naumburg | Germany | 19 May 1949 | Architect | Die Kunst der Deutschen. Ihr Wesen und ihre Werke |
| Alexey Shchusev | Russia | 24 May 1949 | Architect | Lenin's Mausoleum |
| Nikos Skalkottas |  Greece | 19 September 1949 | Composer | List of compositions by Nikos Skalkottas |
| G. E. M. Skues | United Kingdom | 9 August 1949 | Writer, fly fisherman | The Way of a Trout with the Fly |
| Frank Smythe | United Kingdom | 27 June 1949 | Mountaineer, author, photographer | The Kangchenjunga Adventure |
| Edith Somerville | Ireland | 8 October 1949 | Novelist | The Irish R.M. |
| Edward Stettinius | United States | 31 October 1949 | Politician | Roosevelt and the Russians |
| Herbert Stothart | United States | 1 February 1949 | Composer, songwriter, conductor | Score for The Wizard of Oz |
| Richard Strauss | Germany | 8 September 1949 | Composer | List of compositions |
| Harry Stack Sullivan | United States | 14 January 1949 | Psychiatrist | Works |
| Ali Mahmoud Taha | Egypt | 17 November 1949 | Poet | Nights of the Lost Sailor, Palestine |
| Edward Thorndike | United States | 9 August 1949 | Psychologist | Works |
| Joaquín Torres-García |  Uruguay | 8 August 1949 | Artist, writer | |
| Gancho Tsenov | Bulgaria | 1949 | Historian | |
| Joaquín Turina | Spain | 14 January 1949 | Composer | Danzas fantásticas |
| Uemura Shōen | Japan | 27 August 1949 | Artist | Jo-no-mai |
| Sigrid Undset | Norway | 10 June 1949 | Novelist | Works |
| Shabbir Ahmad Usmani | Pakistan | 13 December 1949 | theologian | Fathul Mulhim Sharh Sahih Muslim |
| Raimond Valgre | Estonia | 31 December 1949 | composer, musician | |
| Josef Velenovský | Czech Republic | 7 May 1949 | botanist | Works |
| Oswald Garrison Villard | United States | 1 October 1949 | Journalist, civil rights activist | John Brown 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After |
| Rosy Wertheim | Netherlands | 27 May 1949 | Composer | |
| Elin Wägner | Sweden | 7 January 1949 | Novelist | The Penholder |
| Lee "Lasses" White | United States | 16 December 1949 | Pianist, songwriter, actor | |
| E. H. Young | United Kingdom | 8 August 1949 | Novelist and children's writer | |
| Arthur Leo Zagat | United States | 3 April 1949 | Writer, lawyer | |
| Nikola Zhekov | Bulgaria | 1 November 1949 | General | Memoirs |
| Oton Župančič |  Slovenia | 11 June 1949 | Writer, translator | Ciciban |
Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1934, films released in 1934, and other works published in 1934 will enter the public domain in 2030. [5] Sound recordings published in 1929 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1959 will also enter the public domain.
Two characters from Disney's core animated universe, Donald Duck and Clara Cluck, will enter the public domain in 2030 through their respective debut films, the Silly Symphony cartoon The Wise Little Hen and the Mickey Mouse cartoon Orphan's Benefit (the latter of which also marked the first appearance of Goofy under his familiar identity). Also entering the public domain in 2030 is the comic strip character Colonel Blimp; he is one of only a few comic characters from 1934 to do so, as none of the U.S. comic strip characters introduced in 1934 (Li'l Abner, Mandrake the Magician, and Snuffy Smith among several others) had their debut strips copyright renewed.
The most famous feature films entering the public domain in 2030 are Frank Capra's Best Picture Academy Award winner It Happened One Night starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, which is famous for its hitchhiking scene; and the Laurel and Hardy adaptation of Babes in Toyland (also known under its alternative title March of the Wooden Soldiers). Other notable films entering the public domain in 2030 include Capra's other film Broadway Bill , Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra , Jean Vigo's L'Atalante , the Alfred Hitchcock films The Man Who Knew Too Much and Waltzes from Vienna, the John Ford films The Lost Patrol, The World Moves On and Judge Priest (the latter starring Will Rogers), Billy Wilder's directorial debut Mauvaise Graine , Sidney Franklin's The Barretts of Wimpole Street starring Norma Shearer and Frederic March, W. S. Van Dyke's The Thin Man and Forsaking All Others , the musical film Stand Up and Cheer! which marked the breakthrough of child actress Shirley Temple, Little Miss Marker (also starring Temple), Victor Fleming's adaptation of Treasure Island , Mark Sandrich's The Gay Divorcee starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Lloyd Bacon's Here Comes the Navy , John M. Stahl's Imitation of Life starring Colbert, Rita Hayworth's debut film Cruz Diablo , Howard Hawks and John Conway's Viva Villa! starring Wallace Beery, Gregory La Cava's The Affairs of Cellini , Raymond Bernard's adaptation of Les Misérables , The Three Stooges' first films in their familiar iteration and for Columbia, and the first Dutch sound film William of Orange .
Notable literary works entering the public domain include Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mystery novel Murder on the Orient Express as well as her short story collections The Listerdale Mystery and Parker Pyne Investigates , the first English translation of The Death Ship , P. G. Wodehouse's novel Thank You, Jeeves and its sequel Right Ho, Jeeves , F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel Tender Is the Night , John Dickson Carr's mystery novels The Plague Court Murders and The White Priory Murders introducing Sir Henry Merrivale, James M. Cain's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice , Robert Graves' novel I, Claudius , Henry Miller's novel Tropic of Cancer , Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust , Rex Stout's detective novel Fer-de-Lance introducing Nero Wolfe, Ngaio Marsh's A Man Lay Dead introducing Roderick Alleyn, George Orwell's Burmese Days , Hardy Boys novel The Mark on the Door , the first English translation of Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don , Hergé's Tintin story Cigars of the Pharaoh as a complete album in its original French black-and-white version as well as the first serialized pages of The Blue Lotus , and Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour . The first of P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins novels, featuring the more refined version of its titular character, will also enter the public domain. Notable non-fiction books include Webster's New International Dictionary, second edition.
Works of art entering the public domain include Salvador Dalí's painting The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table , Joan Miró's Woman, Amrita Sher-Gil's painting The Little Girl in Blue , Diego Rivera's mural Man, Controller of the Universe , and M. C. Escher's lithograph Still Life with Spherical Mirror , and Jere Miah II's destroyed mural Nightmare of 1934'.
Popular songs entering the public domain in 2030 include "Blue Moon", "June In January", "Love In Bloom", "Cocktails for Two", and "The Very Thought Of You". The popular Christmas songs "Winter Wonderland" and "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" will also enter the public domain; in the former's case, its entry will exclude the more child-friendly revised lyrics (which would later become the second verse) where the snowman is changed from Parson Brown to a circus clown, which did not appear until 1947.
The original theatrical version of Nina Paley's 2008 film Sita Sings the Blues will enter the public domain; while the film was already in the public domain through a CC0 licence since 2011, [6] however the original soundtrack used 1929 recordings of Annette Hanshaw which were still copyrighted and will enter the public domain in 2030.
The Marc Sleen Foundation, responsible for the estate of Belgian comic book writer Marc Sleen (1922–2016), announced that they will dissolve as a foundation and place all of his works into the public domain on 1 January 2030 through a CC0 declaration. This includes The Adventures of Nero, Piet Fluwijn en Bolleke, De Lustige Kapoentjes, Doris Dobbel, Oktaaf Keunink, and De Ronde van Frankrijk. [7]
The Marc Sleen Museum in Brussels, also run by the foundation, was sold to the Belgian Comic Strip Center. [8]
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