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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 is not uniform. The following lists include creators whose works entered the public domain in 2029 under the most common copyright regimes.

Entering the public domain in countries with life + 70 years

Except for 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. 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	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott	United States	22 September 1872	4 June 1958	novelist, poet, short story writer.	Molly Make-Believe, But Once A Year: Christmas Stories
James Branch Cabell	United States	14 April 1879	5 May 1958	fantasy writer.	Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice, Biography of the Life of Manuel
E. Everett Evans	United States	30 November 1893	2 December 1958	Science fiction author
Margiad Evans	United Kingdom	17 March 1909	17 March 1958	illustrator, novelist, poet.	Country Dance, Autobiography, A Ray of Darkness, The Nightingale Silenced
Dorothy Canfield Fisher	United States	17 February 1879	9 November 1958	literary critic, memoirist, novelist, short story writer, translator.	Understood Betsy
Marjorie Flack	United States	22 October 1897	29 August 1958	children's writer, illustrator.	writer of The Story About Ping, illustrator of The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
Angelina Weld Grimké	United States	27 February 1880	10 June 1958	playwright, poet.	Rachel
Michael Joseph	United Kingdom	26 September 1897	15 March 1958	Writer, publisher.	How to Write Serial Fiction, Puss in Books: A collection of stories about cats, The Sword in the Scabbard
Cyril M. Kornbluth	United States	2 July 1923	21 March 1958	science fiction writer	The Little Black Bag, The Marching Morons
Henry Kuttner	United States	7 April 1915	3 February 1958	Writer of fantasy, horror fiction, and science fiction.	The Graveyard Rats, Mimsy Were the Borogoves
Rose Macaulay	United Kingdom	1 August 1881	30 October 1958	biographer, novelist, travel writer.	The World My Wilderness, The Towers of Trebizond
Johnston McCulley	United States	2 February 1883	23 November 1958	Author	Zorro
G. E. Moore	United Kingdom	4 November 1873	24 October 1958	journal editor, philosopher.	Principia Ethica, A Defence of Common Sense
Charles Langbridge Morgan	United Kingdom	22 January 1894	6 February 1958	novelist, playwright.	The Burning Glass
Alfred Noyes	United Kingdom	16 September 1880	25 June 1958	playwright, poet, short story writer.	The Highwayman, Shakespeare's Kingdom
Seumas O'Sullivan	Ireland	17 July 1879	24 March 1958	magazine editor, poet.	Twilight People, Verses Sacred and Profane
Elliot Paul	United States	10 February 1891	7 April 1958	journalist, novelist, screenwriter.	Life and Death of a Spanish Town, Linden on the Saugus Branch
H. G. Peter	United States	8 March 1880	2 January 1958	Cartoonist	Wonder Woman
Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen	Romania	24 August 1881	8 December 1958	social scientist.	Accidente profesionale (Work-related Accidents), Câteva considerațiuni asupra socialismului și asupra roadelor sale (Some Musings on Socialism and Its Results
Peig Sayers	Ireland	1873	8 December 1958	seanchaí (traditional Gaelic storyteller and historian) .	Peig, Machnamh Seanmhná (An Old Woman's Reflections)
Robert W. Service	Canada	16 January 1874	11 September 1958	poet.	The Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Cremation of Sam McGee
J. C. Squire	United Kingdom	2 April 1884	20 December 1958	historian, literary critic, magazine editor, poet.	Robin Hood: a farcical romantic pastoral , Shakespeare as a Dramatist
Ethel Turner	Australia	24 January 1870	8 April 1958	children's writer, novelist.	Seven Little Australians
Geoffrey Willans	United Kingdom	4 February 1911	6 August 1958	children's writer, humorist, novelist, screenwriter.	Down with Skool! A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and their Parents, Whizz for Atomms: A Guide to Survival in the 20th Century for Fellow Pupils, their Doting Maters, Pompous Paters and Any Others who are Interested
Harry Cohn	United States	23 July 1891	27 February 1958	Filmmaker

Countries with life + 60 years

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

Countries with life + 50 years

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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
Leigh Brackett	United States	7 December 1915	24 March 1978	Writer, screenwriter	Shadow Over Mars
Edmund Crispin	United Kingdom	2 October 1921	15 September 1978	Writer, composer	Gervase Fen stories
Amelia Reynolds Long	United States	25 November 1904	26 March 1978	Writer	Behind the Evidence
Margaret Mead	United States	16 December 1901	15 November 1978	Anthropologist	Coming of Age in Samoa
William Middleton	United Kingdom	15 December 1891	12 August 1978	Illustrator	The Railway Series
Ward Moore	United States	10 August 1903	29 January 1978	Writer	Bring the Jubilee
Eric Frank Russell	United Kingdom	6 January 1905	28 February 1978	Writer	"Allamagoosa"
Jack L. Warner	United States	2 August 1892	9 September 1978	Filmmaker

Countries with life + 80 years

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.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Alexander Aaronsohn	Israel	1888	1948	Author	With the Turks in Palestine
Sabahattin Ali	Turkey	25 February 1907	2 April 1948	Novelist	§Works
Francisco Alonso	Spain	9 May 1887	18 May 1948	Composer	Las Leandras
Carl Thomas Anderson	United States	14 February 1865	4 November 1948	Cartoonist	Henry
Antonin Artaud	France	4 September 1896	4 March 1948	Dramatist	§Works
Kan'ichi Asakawa	Japan	20 December 1873	10 August 1948	Historian	The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues
Gertrude Atherton	United States	30 October 1857	14 June 1948	Novelist	§Works
Jatindramohan Bagchi	India	27 November 1878	1 February 1948	Poet
Milan Begović	Croatia	19 January 1876	13 May 1948	Writer	Pustolov pred vratima
Hulusi Behçet	Turkey	20 February 1889	8 March 1948	Physician	Clinical and Practical Syphilis, Diagnosis and Related Dermatoses
Ruth Benedict	United States	5 June 1887	17 September 1948	Anthropologist	The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Frank Benford	United States	29 May 1883	4 December 1948	Physicist	The law of anomalous numbers
Gertrude Barrows Bennett	United States	18 July 1884	2 February 1948	Writer of science fiction and fantasy	The Citadel of Fear, The Heads of Cerberus, Claimed
Nikolai Berdyaev	Russia	18 March 1874	24 March 1948	Philosopher	§Works
Folke Bernadotte	Sweden	2 January 1895	17 September 1948	Diplomat, nobleman	§Works
Georges Bernanos	France	20 February 1888	5 July 1948	Writer	The Diary of a Country Priest
Hendrik van der Bijl	South Africa	23 November 1887	2 December 1948	Engineer	Theory and Operating Characteristics of the Thermionic Amplifier
Nasib al-Bitar	Palestine	13 June 1890	26 June 1948	Jurist	Al-Fareeda Fi Hisab Al-Fareedhah
André Bloch	France	20 November 1893	11 October 1948	Mathematician	La conception actuelle de la theorie des fonctions entieres et meromorphes
Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller	Germany	6 February 1862	19 December 1948	Botanist	Beiträge zur Flora Mazedoniens
Gordon Bottomley	United Kingdom	20 February 1874	25 August 1948	Poet, playwright	The Crier By Night
Harry Brearley	United Kingdom	18 February 1871	14 July 1948	Metallurgist	Knotted String
Sophonisba Breckinridge	United States	1 April 1866	30 July 1948	Economist, social scientist	Marriage and the Civic Rights of Women
Robert Briffault	United Kingdom	1876	11 December 1948	Anthropologist, novelist	The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions
Abraham Brill	United States	12 October 1874	2 March 1948	Psychiatrist	Psychoanalysis: Its Theories and Practical Application
Alice Brown	United States	5 December 1857	21 June 1948	Writer	§Works
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan	India	16 August 1904	15 February 1948	Poet	Jhansi Ki Rani
Hiram Alfred Cody	Canada	3 July 1872	9 February 1948	Writer, Clergyman	The Frontiersman: A Tale of the Yukon
Umberto Coromaldi	Italy	21 September 1870	5 October 1948	Painter	Happy Mother
Osamu Dazai	Japan	19 June 1909	13 June 1948	Author	The Setting Sun, No Longer Human
Mary Angela Dickens	United Kingdom	31 October 1862	7 February 1948	Writer	Cross Currents
Dildar	Iraq	20 February 1918	12 October 1948	Poet	Ey Reqîb
Janus Djurhuus	Faroe Islands	26 February 1881	1 September 1948	Poet
Lawrence Donovan	United States	July 1866	11 March 1948	Novelist and pulp fiction author
Rheta Childe Dorr	United States	2 November 1866	8 August 1948	Journalist, Suffragist	What Eight Million Women Want
O. Douglas	United Kingdom	24 March 1877	24 November 1948	Author	Olivia in India
Sergei Eisenstein	Russia	22 January 1898	11 February 1948	Film Director	Battleship Potemkin
Pompeu Fabra	Spain	20 February 1868	25 December 1948	Grammarian	Diccionari General de la Llengua Catalana
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria	Bulgaria	26 February 1861	10 September 1948	King of Bulgaria (1887–1918), author, botanist, entomologist
Jacques Feyder	Belgium	21 July 1885	24 May 1948	Film Director, screenwriter,	Crainquebille
William Arms Fisher	United States	27 April 1861	18 December 1948	Composer, writer
Zelda Fitzgerald	United States	24 July 1900	10 March 1948	Novelist	Save Me the Waltz
Gustaf Fjæstad	Sweden	22 December 1868	17 July 1948	Artist
Karl Gebhardt	Germany	23 November 1897	2 June 1948	Doctor	Chirurgische krankengymnastik
Umberto Giordano	Italy	28 August 1867	12 November 1948	Composer	Andrea Chénier
Susan Glaspell	United States	1 July 1876	28 July 1948	Playwright, novelist	Trifles
Arshile Gorky	United States	15 April 1904	21 July 1948	Painter	The Liver is the Cock's Comb
D. W. Griffith	United States	22 January 1875	23 July 1948	Film director, producer	The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms
Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim	Ukraine	6 March 1888	4 December 1948	Botanist
Frederick Philip Grove	Germany  Canada	14 February 1879	9 September 1948	Writer, translator	Settlers of the Marsh
Uzeyir Hajibeyov	Azerbaijan	18 September 1885	23 November 1948	Composer	Leyli and Majnun
Thomas William Hanforth	United Kingdom	6 March 1867	5 June 1948	Composer
Ernest George Henham	United Kingdom	14 December 1870	3 April 1948	Writer	Furze the Cruel
Ernst Herzfeld	Germany	23 July 1879	21 January 1948	Archaeologist	Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra
Johan Hjort	Norway	18 February 1869	7 October 1948	Marine Biologist	The Depths of the Ocean
Seth Hoffman	United States	8 September 1895	2 August 1948	Artist
Vicente Huidobro	Chile	10 January 1893	2 January 1948	Poet	Altazor o el viaje en paracaídas
Victor Ido	Indonesia	8 February 1869	20 May 1948	Writer, journalist	De paupers
William Henry Irwin	United States	14 September 1873	24 February 1948	Journalist, writer	The House That Shadows Built
Susan Sutherland Isaacs	United Kingdom	24 May 1885	12 October 1948	Psychologist	Intellectual Growth in Young Children
Hédi Khayachi	Tunisia	1882	1948	Painter
Kan Kikuchi	Japan	26 December 1888	6 March 1948	Novelist	Tōjūrō no Koi
Egon Kisch	Czech Republic	29 April 1885	31 March 1948	Journalist, writer	Schreib das auf, Kisch!
August Köhler	Germany	4 March 1866	12 March 1948	Physicist	Gedanken zu einem neuen Beleuchtungsverfahren für mikrophotographische Zwecke
Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein	Germany	24 April 1870	16 October 1948	General	Mit dem Turken zum Suezkanal
Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov	Russia	23 May 1873	8 April 1948	Entomologist	The Eurasian Arctic Fauna and Its Origin
Franz Lehár	Hungary	30 April 1870	24 October 1948	Composer	List of operas and operettas
Rudolf Franz Lehnert	Germany	13 July 1878	16 January 1948	Photographer
Maximilian Lenz	Austria	4 October 1860	19 May 1948	Artist	A World, A Song of Spring
Monteiro Lobato	Brazil	18 April 1882	4 July 1948	Novelist, publisher	Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (novel series)
Ross Lockridge Jr.	United States	25 April 1914	6 March 1948	Novelist	Raintree County
Emil Ludwig	Germany	25 January 1881	17 September 1948	Biographer	Bismarck
Edith Balfour Lyttelton	United Kingdom	4 April 1865	2 September 1948	Writer, spiritualist
Nikola Marinov	Bulgaria	10 July 1879	16 December 1948	Painter
Jan Masaryk	Czech Republic	14 September 1886	10 March 1948	Politician	Speaking to My Country
Ilya Mashkov	Russia	29 July 1881	20 March 1944	Painter
A. E. W. Mason	United Kingdom	7 May 1865	22 November 1948	Author, politician	The Four Feathers
Gerardo Matos Rodríguez	Uruguay	28 March 1897	25 April 1948	Composer	La cumparsita
Claude McKay	Jamaica	15 September 1889	22 May 1948	Writer	§Works
Ernest Merritt	United States	28 April 1865	5 June 1948	Physicist, educator
Kerry Mills	United States	1 February 1869	5 December 1948	Composer
Harry A. Millis	United States	14 April 1873	25 June 1948	Economist
Wesley Clair Mitchell	United States	5 August 1874	29 October 1948	Economist	The Role of Money in Economic Theory
Thomas Mofolo	Lesotho	22 December 1876	8 September 1948	Writer	Chaka
Prosper Montagné	France	14 November 1865	22 April 1948	Chef, Gastronome	Larousse Gastronomique
Sylvanus Morley	United States	7 June 1883	2 September 1948	Archeologist	The Ancient Maya
Baldassarre Negroni	Italy	21 January 1877	18 July 1948	Film director	The Courier of Moncenisio
Fred Niblo	United States	6 January 1877	7 November 1948	Film Director, actor	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Alan Odle	United Kingdom	1888	1948	Illustrator
Edith Olivier	United Kingdom	31 December 1872	10 May 1948	Writer	Alexander the Corrector: The Eccentric Life of Alexander Cruden
Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan	Ireland	29 April 1874	18 June 1948	Dramatist, novelist	Adam of Dublin
Margaret Pedler	United Kingdom	1877	28 December 1948	Romance Author	Barbarian Lover
John J. Pershing	United States	19 March 1860	15 July 1948	General	My Experiences in the World War
Albert Pollard	United Kingdom	16 December 1869	3 August 1948	Historian	The Evolution of Parliament
Manuel Ponce	Mexico	8 December 1882	24 April 1948	Composer	Estrellita
Abram Ranovich	Russia	15 December 1885	29 May 1948	Historian	On Early Christianity
Charles Herbert Reilly	United Kingdom	4 March 1874	2 February 1948	Architect	Representative British Architects of the Present Day
Charles Grant Robertson	United Kingdom	1869	29 February 1948	Historian, novelist	England under the Hanoverians
J.-H. Rosny jeune	Belgium  France	21 July 1859	21 July 1948	Writer
Sultanzade Sabahaddin	Turkey	13 February 1879	30 June 1948	Sociologist	The Witness
Husain Salaahuddin	Maldives	14 April 1881	20 September 1948	Writer	The Story of Thakurufaan the Great
Maria Olga de Moraes Sarmento da Silveira	Portugal	26 May 1881	17 October 1948	Writer, feminist	Problema Feminista
Kurt Schwitters	Germany	20 June 1887	8 January 1948	Artist	Das Undbild
Antonin Sertillanges	France	16 November 1863	26 July 1948	Priest, author	What Jesus Saw from the Cross
Lamed Shapiro	United States	10 March 1878	1948	Author	Di yidishe melukhe un andere zakhn
D. D. Sheehan	Ireland	28 May 1873	28 November 1948	Politician, author	Ireland since Parnell
David Shterenberg	Russia	26 July 1881	1 May 1948	Painter and graphic artist	§Works
Charles Silvestre	France	2 February 1889	31 March 1948	Novelist	§Works
Annie M. P. Smithson	Ireland	26 September 1873	21 February 1948	Author, nurse.	The Walk of a Queen
Marjory Stephenson	United Kingdom	24 January 1885	12 December 1948	Biochemist
Montague Summers	United Kingdom	10 April 1880	10 August 1948	Author and clergyman	Malleus Maleficarum
Alexander du Toit	South Africa	14 March 1878	25 February 1948	Geologist	Our Wandering Continents; An Hypothesis of Continental Drifting
Richard C. Tolman	United States	4 March 1881	5 September 1948	Physicist	The Principles of Statistical Mechanics
Karl Valentin	Germany	4 June 1882	9 February 1948	Comedian	§Works
José Vianna da Motta	Portugal	22 April 1868	1 June 1948	Pianist, composer	§Works
Franco Vittadini	Italy	9 April 1884	30 November 1948	Composer	Anima Allegra
Augusto Weberbauer	Germany	26 November 1871	16 January 1948	Botanist	Die Pflanzenwelt der peruanischen Anden in ihren Grundzügen
Paul Wegener	Germany	11 December 1874	13 September 1948	Film Director, screenwriter	The Student of Prague
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari	Italy	12 January 1876	21 January 1948	Composer	Il segreto di Susanna
George MacKinnon Wrong	Canada	25 June 1860	29 June 1948	Historian	The Conquest of New France
Muhammad Amin Zaki	Iraq	1880	1948	Historian	A Short History of the Kurds and Kurdistan
Andrei Zhdanov	Russia	26 February 1896	31 August 1948	Politician	Советская литература, Стахановцы настоящие большевики производства

United States

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Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1933, films released in 1933, and other works published in 1933, will enter the public domain in 2029. Sound recordings published in 1928 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1958 will also enter the public domain.

Notable films entering the public domain in 2029 include the original King Kong and its sequel Son of Kong, Lloyd Bacon's musical films 42nd Street and Footlight Parade, Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The Invisible Man, Best Picture Academy Award-winner Cavalcade, Alfred E. Green's Baby Face with Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent, George Cukor's adaptation of Little Women with Kathrine Hepburn, the Marx Brothers musical comedy Duck Soup, Ecstasy with Heddy Lamarr in her acting debute, Mervyn LeRoy's Tugboat Annie and Gold Diggers of 1933 (the latter of which he co-directed with Busby Berkeley), the Mae West films She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel, Frank Tuttle's Roman Scandals, Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (the first British film to win an Oscar), Lowell Sherman's Morning Glory, the original State Fair (which inspired the more famous 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical film), William J. Cowen's Oliver Twist, Cukor's Dinner at Eight, Frank Capra's Lady for a Day, Raoul Walsh's Going Hollywood with Marion Davies and Bing Crosby, Jean Vigo's Zero for Conduct, Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs and the first animated Popeye cartoons.

Literary works entering the public domain include H. G. Wells's sci-fi novel The Shape of Things to Come, James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon introducing Shangri-La, Dashiell Hammett's novel The Thin Man introducing Nick and Nora Charles, George Orwell's first novel Down and Out in Paris and London, Virginia Woolf's novel Flush: A Biography, Ernest Hemingway's short story collection Winner Take Nothing, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mystery novel Lord Edgware Dies, Raymond Chandler's short story Blackmailers Don't Shoot, John Steinbeck's novel To a God Unknown and Dorothy Wall's children's novel Blinky Bill.

Artworks entering the public domain include Diego Rivera's destroyed mural Man at the Crossroads and his Detroit Industry Murals, René Magritte's painting The Human Condition, and Henri Cartier-Bresson's photograph Seville, Spain.

See also

• List of American films of 1933
• 1933 in literature, 1958 in literature and 1978 in literature for deaths of writers
• Public Domain Day
• Creative Commons
• 2030 in public domain

References

1. "Copyright and the Public Domain". Public Domain Information Project. Archived from the original on 2014-08-01.

External links

• Popular Books of 1933 at Goodreads

• Public domain
• 2029 in law