Social:2007 in public domain

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 2007. 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, 2007.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
James Churchward	United Kingdom	1851	1936	occult writer.	The Lost Continent of Mu, the Motherland of Men, The Children of Mu
Ramón del Valle-Inclán	Spain	1866	1936	dramatist, novelist.	El marqués de Bradomín. Coloquios románticos (The Marquis of Bradomin. Romantic meetings), Bohemian Lights
Mateiu Caragiale	Romania	1885	1936	novelist, poet.	Craii de Curtea-Veche (Rakes of the Old Court), Remember
Rudyard Kipling	United Kingdom	1865	1936	novelist, poet, short-story writer.	The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book
Elizabeth Robins Pennell	United States	1855	1936	art critic, biographer, memoirist, travel writer.	Nights: Rome & Venice in the Aesthetic Eighties, London & Paris in the Fighting Nineties
Rahel Sanzara	Germany	1894	1936	novelist.	Das verlorene Kind (The Lost Child), Die glückliche Hand
Lidia Veselitskaya	Russia	1857	1936	novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, translator.	Mimi's Marriage, Mimi at the Springs, Mimi Poisons Herself
Mikhail Kuzmin	Russia	1872	1936	musician, novelist, poet.	Wings, Alexandrian Songs
A. de Herz	Romania	1887	1936	playwright, poet, short-story writer.	Păianjenul (The Spider), Noaptea Învierii (Resurrection Night)
Marguerite Durand	France	1864	1936	journalist, pamphlet writer.	founder of the newspaper La Fronde (The Sling)
A. E. Housman	United Kingdom	1859	1936	classical scholar, poet.	A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems
Robert E. Howard	United States	1906	1936	sword and sorcery writer.	The Hour of the Dragon, Worms of the Earth
M. R. James	United Kingdom	1862	1936	ghost story writer, medievalist, antiquarian.	Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, More Ghost Stories
Karl Kraus	Austria	1874	1936	essayist, playwright, poet, satirist.	Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (The Last Days of Mankind), Literatur oder man wird doch da sehn (Literature, or You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet)
G. K. Chesterton	United Kingdom	1874	1936	mystery writer, philosopher, lay theologian, apologist.	The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Man Who Was Thursday
Maxim Gorky	Russia	1868	1936	novelist, playwright, poet, short-story writer.	The Life of Klim Samgin, The Artamonov Business
Donald Maxwell	United Kingdom	1877	1936	travel writer, illustrator.	regular illustrator for the newspapers The Graphic and Church Times
F. J. Harvey Darton	United Kingdom	1878	1936	literary historian, novelist, publisher.	The Story of English Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life, Alibi Pilgrimage
Mourning Dove	United States	1884	1936	Western novelist, folklore writer.	Cogewea, Coyote Stories
Grazia Deledda	Italy	1871	1936	novelist.	After the Divorce, Canne al vento (Reeds in the wind)
Federico García Lorca	Spain	1898	1936	playwright, poet.	The Butterfly's Evil Spell, The Billy-Club Puppets
Juliette Adam	France	1836	1936	novelist, memoirist.	Mes premières armes littéraires et politiques, Mes sentiments et nos idées avant 1870
J. Slauerhoff	Netherlands	1898	1936	novelist, poet.	Het verboden rijk (The forbidden kingdom), Oost-Azië (East Asia)
Stefan Grabiński	Poland	1887	1936	horror writer.	Z Wyjątków. W Pomrokach Wiary (Exceptions: In the Dark of Faith), Na Wzgórzu Róż (On the Hill of Roses)
Luigi Pirandello	Italy	1867	1936	dramatist, novelist, poet, short-story writer.	The Late Mattia Pascal, Six Characters in Search of an Author
Frances Garnet Wolseley, 2nd Viscountess Wolseley	United Kingdom	1872	1936	gardening writer.	Gardening for Women, Women on the Land
Kristína Royová	Slovakia	1860	1936	novelist, poet.	Bez Boha na svete (Without God in the world), Bludári (Heretics)
John Cornford	United Kingdom	1915	1936	poet.	Full Moon At Tierz
Miguel de Unamuno	Spain	1864	1936	classics scholar, novelist, playwright, philosopher.	Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion, Mist

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
Wickham Steed	United Kingdom	1871	1956	historian, journalist.	Hitler Whence and Whither?, The Meaning of Hitlerism
Sheila Kaye-Smith	United Kingdom	1887	1956	novelist.	Joanna Godden, The End of the House of Alard
H. L. Mencken	United States	1880	1956	cultural critic, essayist, satirist.	The American Language, The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
A. A. Milne	United Kingdom	1882	1956	novelist, playwright, poet.	Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
Edmund Clerihew Bentley	United Kingdom	1875	1956	humorist, mystery novelist, poet.	Trent's Last Case, Trent's Own Case
Arthur Talmage Abernethy	United States	1872	1956	poet, theologian.	The Hell You Say!: A Novel, The Jew a Negro; Being a Study of the Jewish Ancestry from an Impartial Standpoint
Max Beerbohm	United Kingdom	1872	1956	caricaturist, humorist, novelist, parodist.	Zuleika Dobson, The Happy Hypocrite
Ion Călugăru	Romania	1902	1956	novelist, short-story writer.	Copilăria unui netrebnic (The Childhood of a Ne'er-do-well), Oțel și pîine (Steel and Bread)
Walter de la Mare	United Kingdom	1873	1956	children's writer, horror writer.	Memoirs of a Midget, Collected Stories for Children
Nicos Nicolaides	Greece	1884	1956	dramatist, short-story writer, painter.	To Stravoxylo (The Peevish Fellow), O Skelethras Diegimata B (The Skeleton Short Stories'. Book 2)
Gottfried Benn	Germany	1886	1956	essayist, poet.	Morgue und andere Gedichte (Morgue and other Poems), Doppelleben (Double Life)
Giovanni Papini	Italy	1881	1956	novelist, short-story writer, philosopher.	Gog, Il Crepuscolo dei Filosofi (The Twilight of the Philosophers)
Bertolt Brecht	Germany	1898	1956	playwright, poet.	The Threepenny Opera, The Flight Across the Ocean
Michael Ventris	United Kingdom	1922	1956	classics scholar, philologist.	Documents in Mycenaean Greek, Introducing the Minoan Language
A. L. Zissu	Romania	1888	1956	dramatist, essayist, novelist, polemicist.	Nu există cult mozaic (No Such Thing as a Mosaic Religion), Calea Calvarului (The Path of Calvary)
Hans Carossa	Germany	1878	1956	novelist, poet.	Stella Mystica, Ungleiche Welten (Unequal Worlds)
Pío Baroja	Spain	1872	1956	novelist.	The Tree of Knowledge, Memorias de un Hombre de Acción (Memories of a Man of Action)
Pío Baroja	Spain	1872	1956	novelist.	The Tree of Knowledge, Memorias de un Hombre de Acción (Memories of a Man of Action)
B. R. Ambedkar	India	1891	1956	economist, political writer, journal writer.	Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development, The Buddha and His Dhamma
Arthur Grimble	United Kingdom	1888	1956	travel writer, memoirist.	A Pattern of Islands, Return to the Islands
Robert Walser	Switzerland	1878	1956	novelist, poet, short-story writer.	Jakob von Gunten, Der Gehülfe (The Assistant)

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

• 1936 in literature and 1956 in literature for deaths of writers
• Public Domain Day
• Creative Commons

External links

• Winnie the Pooh, the Public Domain and Winnie’s Canadian Connection