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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 2005. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.

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. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator that entered the public domain on January 1, 2005.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Jakob Wassermann	Germany	10 March 1873	1 January 1934	novelist.	Melusine, The Maurizius Case, My Life as German and Jew
Dorothy Edwards	United Kingdom	18 August 1902	5 January 1934	novelist, short story writer.	Rhapsody, Winter Sonata
Andrei Bely	Russia	26 October 1880	8 January 1934	novelist, poet, literary critic.	Petersburg, The Silver Dove
Helen Zimmern	United Kingdom	25 March 1846	11 January 1934	children's writer, biographer, political writer, translator.	Arthur Schopenhauer, his Life and his Philosophy, Tripoli and Young Italy
Hermann Bahr	Austria	19 July 1863	15 January 1934	novelist, playwright, art critic, literary critic.	The Concert, Expressionismus
Ferenc Móra	Hungary	19 July 1879	8 February 1934	novelist, journalist, museologist.	Sons of the Slave Man, A Journey in the Underground Hungary, Suns, Moons, Bygone Stars
Emeline Harriet Howe	United States	2 January 1844	28 February 1934	poet.	Poems, A Basket of Fragments, From Height to Height
Thomas Anstey Guthrie	United Kingdom	8 August 1856	10 March 1934	comic novelist, parodist, humorist.	Vice Versa, The Man from Blankley's, The Tinted Venus
Safvet-beg Bašagić	Bosnia	6 May 1870	9 April 1934	biographer, poet, bibliographer, translator.	Bosnians and Herzegovinians in Islamic literature, Illustrious Croats - Bosnians and Herzegovinians in the Ottoman empire

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.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Saadat Hasan Manto	Pakistan	11 May 1912	18 January 1955	playwright, novelist, short story writer, essayist	Toba Tek Singh, Thanda Gosht

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. If the work is owned by a corporation, then the copyright extends 95 years.

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.

See also

• 1934 in literature and 1954 in literature for deaths of writers
• Public Domain Day
• Creative Commons

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.

• Public domain
• 2005 in law