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{{Short description|Overview of works entering public ___domain}}

When a work's [[copyright]] expires, it enters the '''[[public ___domain]]'''. The following is a '''list of works that entered the public ___domain in 2019'''. Since laws [[List of countries' copyright lengths|vary globally]], the copyright status of some works are not uniform.

When a work's [[copyright]] expires, it enters the [[public ___domain]]. The following is a list of works that entered the public ___domain in 2019. Since laws [[List of copyright duration by country|vary globally]], the copyright status of some works are not uniform.

==Entering the public ___domain in countries with life + 70 years==

With the exception of Spain (which has a copyright term of Life + 80 years for creators that died before 1987), a work enters the [[public ___domain]] in the [[European Union]] 70 years after the creator's death, if it was published during the creator's lifetime.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/publishing/eu-extends-copyright-term-to-70-years-1005348552.story |title=EU Extends Copyright Term To 70 Years &#124; Billboard |publisher=Billboard.biz |date=2011-09-12 |accessdate=2014-01-07 |archive-date=2013-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106035644/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/publishing/eu-extends-copyright-term-to-70-years-1005348552.story |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="EU">{{cite web|url=https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32006L0116|title=EUR-Lex – 32006L0116 – EN – EUR-Lex|author=|date=|website=eur-lex.europa.eu|accessdate=7 January 2019}}</ref> For previously unpublished material, those who publish it first will have the [[publication right]]s for 25 years. Russia uses Life + 74 for authors who worked during World War II, otherwise copyright is Life + 70.<ref name="GKRF_1281">{{cite web|url=http://www.consultant.ru/popular/gkrf4/ |title=Article 1281 of Civil Code |publisher=Consultant.ru |date= |accessdate=2012-06-08}}</ref> The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator that entered the public ___domain on January 1, 2019.

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="border-spacing:0;"

! Names

! Country

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|-

| [[Frederick Philip Grove]]

| {{flag|Germany}}<br />{{flag|Canada}}

| {{dts|1879|02|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|09|09|format=dmy}}

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| Composer

| ''[[Leyli and Majnun (opera)|Leyli and Majnun]]''

|-

| [[Thomas William Hanforth]]

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1867|03|06|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|06|05|format=dmy}}

| Composer

|

|-

| [[Ernest George Henham]]

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| Archeologist

| ''The Ancient Maya''

|-

| [[Na Hye-sŏk]]

| {{flag|South Korea}}

| {{dts|1896|04|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1948|12|10|format=dmy}}

| Painter

| [[Na Hye-sŏk#Works|Works]]

|-

| [[Baldassarre Negroni]]

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|''Советская литература'',<br/> ''Стахановцы настоящие большевики производства''

|-

|}

==Entering the public ___domain in countries with life + 60 years==

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

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="border-spacing:0; style="width:100%;"

!Names

!Country

!Birth

!Death

!Occupation

!Notable work

|-

| [[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott]]

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1872|09|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|06|04|format=dmy}}

| novelist, poet, short story writer

| Molly Make-Believe, But Once A Year: Christmas Stories

|-

| [[Johannes R. Becher]]

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1891|05|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|10|11|format=dmy}}

| politician, novelist, and poet

| ''[[Auferstanden aus Ruinen]]''

|-

| [[James Branch Cabell]]

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1879|04|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|05|05|format=dmy}}

| [[fantasy]] writer

| [[Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice]], [[Biography of the Life of Manuel]]

|-

| [[Virginia Brindis de Salas]]

| {{flag|Uruguay}}

| {{dts|1908|09|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|04|06|format=dmy}}

| Poet

| ''Pregón de Marimorena''

|-

| [[Harry Cohn]]

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1891|07|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|02|27|format=dmy}}

| Filmmaker

|

|-

|[[E. Everett Evans]]

|{{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1893|11|30|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|12|02|format=dmy}}

|Science fiction author

|

|-

| [[Margiad Evans]]

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1909|03|17|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|03|17|format=dmy}}

| illustrator, novelist, poet

| Country Dance, Autobiography, A Ray of Darkness, The Nightingale Silenced

|-

| [[Dorothy Canfield Fisher]]

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1879|02|17|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|11|09|format=dmy}}

| literary critic, memoirist, novelist, short story writer, translator

| [[Understood Betsy]]

|-

| [[Marjorie Flack]]

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1897|10|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|08|29|format=dmy}}

| children's writer, illustrator

| writer of [[The Story About Ping]], illustrator of [[The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes]]

|-

| [[Lion Feuchtwanger]]

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1884|7|7|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|12|21|format=dmy}}

| writer, journalist, novelist and playwright

| author of [[Jud Süß (Feuchtwanger novel)|''Jud Süß'']] (''Süss, the Jew'')

|-

| [[Angelina Weld Grimké]]

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1880|02|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|06|10|format=dmy}}

| playwright, poet

| [[Rachel (play)|Rachel]]

|-

| [[Juan Ramón Jiménez]]

| {{flag|Spain}}

| {{dts|1881|12|23|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|05|29|format=dmy}}

| Poet

|

|-

| [[Michael Joseph (publisher)|Michael Joseph]]

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1897|09|26|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|03|15|format=dmy}}

| Writer, publisher

| How to Write Serial Fiction, Puss in Books: A collection of stories about cats, The Sword in the Scabbard

|-

| [[Maxim Kopf]]

| {{flag|Austria-Hungary}}<br/>{{flag|Czechoslovakia}}<br/>{{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1892|01|18|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|07|06|format=dmy}}

| Painter, graphic artist and sculptor

| paintings from Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands

|-

| [[Cyril M. Kornbluth]]

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1923|07|02|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|03|21|format=dmy}}

| [[science fiction]] writer

| [[The Little Black Bag]], [[The Marching Morons]]

|-

| [[Henry Kuttner]]

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1915|04|07|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|02|03|format=dmy}}

| Writer of [[fantasy]], [[horror fiction]], and [[science fiction]].

| [[The Graveyard Rats]], [[Mimsy Were the Borogoves]]

|-

| {{ill|Charles Kvapil|fr}}

| {{flag|Belgium}}

| {{dts|1884|11|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|12|21|format=dmy}}

| Painter

|

|-

| [[Rose Macaulay]]

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1881|08|01|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|10|30|format=dmy}}

| biographer, novelist, travel writer

| [[The World My Wilderness]], [[The Towers of Trebizond]]

|-

| [[Ismail Marzuki]]

| {{flag|Indonesia}}

| {{dts|1914|05|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|05|15|format=dmy}}

| composer, songwriter

| ''[[Gugur Bunga]]'', ''[[Halo, Halo Bandung]]'', ''[[Indonesia Pusaka]]''

|-

| [[Johnston McCulley]]

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1883|02|02|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|11|23|format=dmy}}

| Author

| [[Zorro]]

|-

| [[G. E. Moore]]

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1873|11|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|10|24|format=dmy}}

| journal editor, philosopher

| [[Principia Ethica]], [[A Defence of Common Sense]]

|-

| [[Charles Langbridge Morgan]]

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1894|01|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|02|06|format=dmy}}

| novelist, playwright

| [[The Burning Glass]]

|-

| [[Alfred Noyes]]

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1880|09|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|06|25|format=dmy}}

| playwright, poet, short story writer

| [[The Highwayman (poem)|The Highwayman]], [[Shakespeare's Kingdom]]

|-

| [[Seumas O'Sullivan]]

| {{flag|Ireland}}

| {{dts|1879|07|17|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|03|24|format=dmy}}

| magazine editor, poet

| Twilight People, Verses Sacred and Profane

|-

| [[Elliot Paul]]

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1891|02|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|04|07|format=dmy}}

| journalist, novelist, screenwriter

| [[Life and Death of a Spanish Town]], [[Linden on the Saugus Branch]]

|-

| [[H. G. Peter]]

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1880|03|08|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|01|02|format=dmy}}

| Cartoonist

| [[Wonder Woman]]

|-

| [[Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen]]

| {{flag|Romania}}

| {{dts|1881|08|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|12|08|format=dmy}}

| social scientist

| Accidente profesionale (Work-related Accidents), Câteva considerațiuni asupra socialismului și asupra roadelor sale (Some Musings on Socialism and Its Results

|-

| [[Rudolph Rocker]]

| {{flag|Germany}}<br/>{{flag|United Kingdom}}<br/>{{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1873|03|25|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|09|19|format=dmy}}

| anarchist publisher and activist

| [[Nationalism and Culture]]

|-

| [[Peig Sayers]]

| {{flag|Ireland}}

| {{dts|1873|||format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|12|08|format=dmy}}

| [[seanchaí]] (traditional [[Gaels|Gaelic]] storyteller and historian)

| Peig, Machnamh Seanmhná (An Old Woman's Reflections)

|-

| [[Robert W. Service]]

| {{flag|Canada}}

| {{dts|1874|01|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|09|11|format=dmy}}

| poet

| [[The Shooting of Dan McGrew]], [[The Cremation of Sam McGee]]

|-

| [[J. C. Squire]]

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1884|04|02|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|12|20|format=dmy}}

| historian, literary critic, magazine editor, poet

| Robin Hood: a farcical romantic pastoral , Shakespeare as a Dramatist

|-

| [[John Reed Swanton]]

| {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1873|02|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|05|02|format=dmy}}

| anthropologist, folklorist, linguist

| The Indian Tribes of North America, Emanuel Swedenborg, Prophet of the Higher Evolution

|-

| [[Ethel Turner]]

| {{flag|Australia}}

| {{dts|1870|01|24|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|04|08|format=dmy}}

| children's writer, novelist

| [[Seven Little Australians]]

|-

| [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1872|10|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|08|26|format=dmy}}

| Composer

| [[A London Symphony]]

|-

| [[Geoffrey Willans]]

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1911|02|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1958|08|06|format=dmy}}

| 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

|}

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In most countries of Africa and Asia, as well as Belarus, Bolivia, Canada, New Zealand and Uruguay; a work enters the [[public ___domain]] 50 years after the creator's death.

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="border-spacing:0;"

! Names

! Country

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| {{dts|1968|11|28|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| ''[[The Famous Five (novel series)|The Famous Five]]'', ''[[The Secret Seven]]'', ''[[Noddy (character)|Noddy]]''

|-

| [[Hugo Butler]]

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|-

| [[George Gamow]]

| {{flag|Soviet Union}} <br/> {{flag|United States}}

| {{dts|1904|03|04|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|08|19|format=dmy}}

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| Novelist

| ''[[Imitation of Life (novel)|Imitation of Life]]'', ''Lummox''

|-

| [[Muhammad Taha al-Huwayzi]]

| {{flag|Iran}}{{flag|Iraq}}

| 1889

| {{dts|1968|04|04|format=dmy}}

| Religious teacher, poet

| ''Tā'liqāt fī mustafīḍah al-fiqh wa-al-uṣūl''

|-

| [[W. E. Johns]]

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| Writer, aviator

| ''The [[Biggles]] series''

|-

| [[Anna Kavan]]

| {{flag|United Kingdom}}

| {{dts|1901|04|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|12|05|format=dmy}}

| Writer

| ''[[Ice (Kavan novel)|Ice]]''

|-

| [[Helen Keller]]

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| Novelist

| ''[[The Town (Richter novel)|The Town]]''

|-

| [[Nelle Scanlan]]

| {{flag|New Zealand}}

| {{dts|1882|01|15|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|10|05|format=dmy}}

| Novelist, journalist

| The ''Pencarrow'' series

|-

| [[Upton Sinclair]]

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| Writer, playwright, historian, journalist, politician

| ''La cruz de los caminos'', ''Alto Alegre''

|-

| [[Karl Zuchardt]]

| {{flag|Germany}}

| {{dts|1887|02|10|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1968|11|12|format=dmy}}

| Novelist

| ''Wie lange noch, Bonaparte?''

|-

|}

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{{See also|Copyright law of Australia}}

In 2004 copyright in Australia changed from a "plus 50" law to a "plus 70" law, in line with the United States and the European Union. But the change was not made retroactive (unlike the 1995 change in the European Union which brought some e.g. British authors back into copyright, especially those who died from 1925 to 1944). Hence the work of an author who died before 1955 is normally in the public ___domain in Australia; but the copyright of authors was extended to 70 years after death for those who died in 1955 or later, and no more Australian authors willwould come out of copyright until 1 January 2026 (those who died in 1955).

On January 1, 2019, any unpublished work by an author who died in 1948 or before entered the public ___domain.<ref>{{cite web|title=New copyright duration changes coming|url=https://www.communications.gov.au/departmental-news/new-copyright-duration-changes-coming|website=Australian Government-Department of Communications & The Arts|accessdate=23 April 2018|date=2018-04-23}}</ref> Additionally, any published literary, artistic, dramatic, or musical work (other than computer programs) by a not generally known author (anonymous or pseudonymous) from 1948 or before entered the public ___domain.

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==Entering the public ___domain in the United States==

{{See also|Public ___domain in the United States}}

[[File:Safety Last! (1923) by Fred C. Newmeyer.webm|thumb| thumbtime=1:04:15|''[[Safety Last!]]'' entered the public ___domain in the US in 2019.]]

2019 was the first year since 1998 in which the majority of media from a previous year entered the public ___domain after the expiration of its copyright term.<ref name="Atlantic April 2018">{{cite news|last=Fleishman |first=Glenn |title=A Landslide of Classic Art Is About to Enter the Public Domain |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copywritten-so-dont-copy-me/557420/ |work=[[The Atlantic]] |date=8 April 2018 |accessdate=9 May 2018 }}</ref> 2019 is also the first year in this annual process, where 1923 works become public ___domain that year, then 1924 works in 2020, and so on forward.<ref name="Atlantic April 2018"/>

Under the [[Copyright Term extensionExtension Act]], [[1923 in literature|books]], [[1923 in film|films]], and other works published in the United States in 1923 entered the public ___domain in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Copyright and the Public Domain |publisher=Public Domain Information Project |url=http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php |accessdate=2015-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140801121535/http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php |archive-date=2014-08-01 |url-status = dead}}</ref> Additionally, unpublished works whose authors died in 1948 entered the public ___domain. Foreign works from 1923 that were never published in the United States may be in the public ___domain as well.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain#Footnote_12|title=Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States {{!}} Copyright Information Center|website=copyright.cornell.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-04-25}}</ref> This was the first time since January 1, 1998, that a new group of works entered the public ___domain in the United States. From now on, works governed by the [[Copyright Act of 1909]] will enter the public ___domain at the end of the 95th calendar year from publication. For example, 1924 works will enterentered the public ___domain on January 1, 2020, 1925 works in 2021, and so forth.

No United States audio recordings entered the public ___domain (as those fixed before February 15, 1972 were covered by state laws only), but international audio recordings published in 1923 entered the public ___domain in 2019. Under the [[Music Modernization Act]], 1923 domestic audio recordings entered the public ___domain in 2024. However, all sheet music [[1923 in music|published in 1923]] in the United States entered the public ___domain in 2019.

Some of the works that entered public ___domain are ''The Great American Novel'' by [[William Carlos Williams]], Charlie Chaplin's ''[[The Pilgrim (1923 film)|The Pilgrim]]'', Harold Lloyd's ''[[Safety Last!]]'', [[Robert Frost]]'s ''[[Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening]]'', [[Kahlil Gibran]]'s ''[[The Prophet (book)|The Prophet]]'', ''[[The Murder on the Links]]'' by [[Agatha Christie]], [[Cecil B. DeMille]]’s ''[[The Ten Commandments (1923 film)|The Ten Commandments]]'', Aldous Huxley's ''[[Antic Hay]]'', and the first 2 volumes of [[Winston Churchill]]’s ''[[The World Crisis]]''.<ref name="Atlantic April 2018"/> While Christie, Huxley, and Churchill were all non-American authors, these works were also published in the United States and their copyright was registered and renewed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals|title=Copyright Renewals|website=Spotlight at Stanford|date=14 March 2017 |language=en|access-date=2018-04-25}}</ref> Hence, copyright expired in 2019.

No United States audio recordings will enter the public ___domain (as those fixed before February 15, 1972 were covered by state laws only), but international audio recordings published in 1923 entered the public ___domain in 2019. Under the [[Music Modernization Act]], 1923 domestic audio recordings will enter the public ___domain in 2024. However, all sheet music [[1923 in music|published in 1923]] in the United States entered the public ___domain in 2019.

On January 24th 2019 it was announced that [[Nina Paley]] was placing her 2018 film [[Seder-Masochism]] in the public ___domain.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sedermasochism.com/2019/01/02/press-release-seder-masochism-to-go-public-___domain-january-31-2019/|title=PRESS RELEASE: Seder-Masochism to go Public Domain January 31, 2019|website=sedermasochism|date=2 January 2019 |language=en|access-date=2024-11-17}}</ref>

Some of the works that entered public ___domain are ''The Great American Novel'' by [[William Carlos Williams]], Charlie Chaplin's ''[[The Pilgrim (1923 film)|The Pilgrim]]'', Harold Lloyd's ''[[Safety Last!]]'', [[Robert Frost]]'s ''[[Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening]]'', [[Kahlil Gibran]]'s ''[[The Prophet (book)|The Prophet]]'', ''[[The Murder on the Links]]'' by [[Agatha Christie]], [[Cecil B. DeMille]]’s ''[[The Ten Commandments (1923 film)|The Ten Commandments]]'', Aldous Huxley's ''[[Antic Hay]]'', and [[Winston Churchill]]’s ''[[The World Crisis]]''.<ref name="Atlantic April 2018"/> While Christie, Huxley, and Churchill were all non-American authors, these works were also published in the United States and their copyright was registered and renewed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals|title=Copyright Renewals|website=Spotlight at Stanford|language=en|access-date=2018-04-25}}</ref> Hence, copyright expired in 2019.

== See also ==

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{{Years in Public Domain}}

[[Category:Public ___domain by year]]

[[Category:2019 in law|Public ___domain]]