2028 in public domain
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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.
Entering the public domain in countries with life + 70 years
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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 For previously unpublished material, those who publish it first will have the publication rights for 25 years.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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André Chevrillon | ![]() | 3 May 1864 | 9 July 1957 | Writer | Publications |
Alfred Döblin | ![]() | 10 August 1878 | 26 June 1957 | Writer | Berlin Alexanderplatz |
Jérôme Doucet | ![]() | 5 March 1865 | 1 February 1957 | Writer | Works |
Virgilio Giotti | ![]() | 15 January 1885 | 21 September 1957 | Poet | Works |
Heinrich Hoffman | ![]() | 12 September 1885 | 16 December 1957 | Photographer | |
Léon Homo | ![]() | 16 December 1872 | 16 August 1957 | Historian | Works |
Nikos Kazantzakis | ![]() | 2 March 1883 | 26 October 1957 | Writer | Ασκητική. Salvatores dei, Captain Michalis, The Last Temptation of Christ, Zorba the Greek |
František Kupka | ![]() | 23 September 1871 | 24 June 1957 | Painter | The Cathedral (Katedrála) |
Josef Lada | ![]() | 17 December 1887 | 14 December 1957 | Painter, illustrator and writer | Kater Mikesch, illustrations for The Good Soldier Švejk |
Curzio Malaparte | ![]() | 9 June 1898 | 19 July 1957 | Writer | Main writings |
Diego Riviera | ![]() | 8 December 1886 | 24 November 1957 | Painter | Man at the Crossroads |
Umberto Saba | ![]() | 9 March 1883 | 26 August 1957 | Novelist | Works |
Gaetano Salvemini | ![]() | 8 September 1873 | 6 September 1957 | Politician | Works |
Jean Sibelius | ![]() | 8 December 1865 | 20 September 1957 | Composer | List of compositions by Jean Sibelius |
Laura Ingalls Wilder | ![]() | 7 February 1867 | 10 February 1957 | Writer | Little House on the Prairie |
John von Neumann | ![]() ![]() | 28 December 1903 | 8 February 1957 | Mathematician, physicist, computer scientist | List of scientific publications by John von Neumann |
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 |
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Margaret Escott | ![]() | 9 July 1908 | 15 August 1977 | Author | Show Down |
Edmond Hamilton | ![]() | 21 October 1904 | 1 February 1977 | Author | Captain Future |
H. H. Hollis | ![]() | 7 October 1921 | 1977 | SF Author | "The Guerrilla Trees" |
Vladimir Nabokov | ![]() | 22 April 1899 | 2 July 1977 | Author | Lolita |
Anaïs Nin | ![]() | 21 February 1903 | 14 January 1977 | Author | Delta of Venus |
Elvis Presley | ![]() | 8 January 1935 | 16 August 1977 | Musician | Jailhouse Rock |
H. A. Rey | ![]() | 16 September 1898 | 26 August 1977 | Author | Curious George |
Dennis Wheatley | ![]() | 8 January 1897 | 10 November 1977 | Author | The Devil Rides Out |
Countries with life + 80 years
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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.
United States
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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 (the first cartoon produced in Technicolor), 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, Guy Endore's The Werewolf of Paris, 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.
See also
[edit]- 1957 in literature and 1977 in literature for deaths of writers
- Public Domain Day
- Creative Commons
- 2029 in public domain
References
[edit]- ^ "Copyright and the Public Domain". Public Domain Information Project. Archived from the original on 2014-08-01.