2029 in public domain

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

See also: Creators whose works entered the public domain in countries with life + 50 years in 2009

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)

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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
Ralph Vaughan Williams  United Kingdom 12 October 1872 26 August 1958 Composer A London Symphony
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

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

Countries with life + 50 years

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
Jane Lane  United Kingdom 27 May 1905 6 January 1978 Writer He Stooped to Conquer
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
Carola Oman  United Kingdom 11 May 1897 11 June 1978 Writer The Road Royal
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
Armin T. Wegner  Germany 16 October 1886 17 May 1978 Writer, human rights activist Five Fingers Over You

Countries with life + 80 years

See also: Works that entered the public domain in countries with life + 70 years in 2019

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

The trailer is from an unknown year and is for a re-issue of King Kong. The story and characters of King Kong were in the public domain even before the film's release due to classification errors on certain pre-emptive tie-in material.
See also: Public domain in the United States

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.[1] 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.

Among the better-known songs entering the public domain are "We're in the Money", "I've Got the World on a String" and "42nd Street"

See also

References

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