Social:2027 in public domain

Short description: Overview of works entering public domain

The works of Bertolt Brecht will enter the public domain in Europe in 2027.

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 2027. Since laws 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 Belarus (Life + 50 years) and Spain (which has a copyright term of 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. For previously unpublished material, those who publish it first will have the publication rights for 25 years.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 has 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
Bertold Brecht	Germany	1898	1956	Playwright	The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and Her Children
Francisco de Aquino Correia	Brazil	1885	1956	Writer
Aino Kallas	Finland Estonia	1878	1956	Writer	Sudenmorsian, The Pastor of Reigi, Barbara von Tisenhusen
A. A. Milne	United Kingdom	1882	1956	Writer	Winnie-the-Pooh
Alex Raymond	United States	1909	1956	Writer	Flash Gordon
Jackson Pollock	United States	1912	1956	Painter
Michael Ventris	United Kingdom	1922	1956	Classics scholar, philologist	Documents in Mycenaean Greek, Introducing the Minoan Language

Countries with life + 60 years

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

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Ralph Allen	Canada	1913	1966	Writer, journalist	Peace River Country
Lauro Ayestarán	Uruguay	1913	1966	Musicologist	La música en el Uruguay
André Breton	France	1896	1966	Writer, poet	Surrealist Manifesto
Jan Brzechwa	Poland	1898	1966	Poet
Deems Taylor	United States	1885	1966	Composer, music critic
Walt Disney	United States	1901	1966	Filmmaker
C. S. Forester	United Kingdom	1899	1966	Writer	Horatio Hornblower, The African Queen, The General
Lloyd Garrett	United States	1886	1966	Tenor, composer
Alberto Giacometti	Switzerland	1901	1966	Sculptor, painter	The Palace at 4 a.m., L'Homme au doigt, Grande tête mince, L'Homme qui marche I, Large Standing Woman I, Monumental Head
César Batlle Pacheco	Uruguay	1885	1966	Politician, Journalist
Olhinto María Simoes	Uruguay	1901	1966	Poet, journalist	La sombra de los plátanos
Cordwainer Smith	United States	1913	1966	Science fiction writer, professor, military officer	Psychological Warfare, Norstrilia, Scanners Live in Vain, Alpha Ralpha Boulevard, A Planet Named Shayol
Evelyn Waugh	United Kingdom	1903	1966	Writer	Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust
Mohamed Fawzi	Egypt	1918	1966	Singer, Musician	Kassaman
Mohamed El Qasabgi	Egypt	1892	1966	Musician	Raq El Habib
Badie' Khayri	Egypt	1893	1966	Playwright	Hassan wa Murqus wa Cohen
Sayyid Qutb	Egypt	1906	1966	Writer	Ma'alim fi al-Tariq, Fi Zilal al-Quran

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
Agatha Christie	United Kingdom	1890	1976	Author	The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Stuart Cloete	South Africa	1897	1976	Author	Turning Wheels
André Malraux	France	1901	1976	Author	La Condition Humaine
Edgar Pangborn	United States	1909	1974	SF Author	A Mirror for Observers

Countries with life + 80 years

Spain has a copyright term of life + 80 years for creators that died before 1987. In Colombia and Equatorial Guinea a work enters the public domain 80 years after the creator's death.

United States

Notable works entering the public domain in the United States in 2027 include Universal Pictures' Frankenstein and Dracula films

Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1931, films released in 1931, and other works published in 1931, will enter the public domain in 2027. Sound recordings that were published in 1926 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1956 will also enter the public domain. The Disney animated short The Moose Hunt, featuring the first named appearance of Pluto, enters the public domain. Universal Pictures' Frankenstein and Dracula adaptations will be among the works to enter the public domain. In addition, the character Dick Tracy will enter the public domain.

Other significant films entering the public domain include Charlie Chaplin's City Lights, 1931 Best Picture Oscar-winner Cimarron, Gangster films Little Caesar and The Public Enemy, the Marx Brothers film Monkey Business, Fritz Lang's serial killer drama M, Josef von Sternberg's Dishonered starring Marlene Dietrich, Michael Powell's directorial debut Two Crowded Hours, Otto Preminger's directorial debut The Great Love, Mário Peixoto's Limite, Dave Fleischer's Bimbo's Initiation, the first Canadian sound film The Viking, the first Soviet sound film Road to Life, the first Japanese sound film The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, the first Bollywood-musical Alam Ara (now believed lost) and the first Chinese sound film Sing-Song Red Peony.

Artworks entering the public domain include Salvador Dali's painting The Persistence of Memory, Georgia O'Keeffe's painting Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue, Grant Wood's painting The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Thomas Hart Benton's painting America Today, Paul Landowski's sculpture Christ the Redeemer, Pablo Picasso's sculpture Bust of a Woman (Marie-Thérèse), Edward Weston's photograph Cabbage Leaf, August Sander's photograph Secretary at West German Radio, Cologne and M.C. Escher's early print Atrani, Coast of Amalfi.

Important literary works entering the public domain include Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth, Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, Lynn Riggs' play Green Grows the Lilacs, Erich Maria Remarque's novel The Road Back, Winston Churchill's final volume of The World Crisis, Georges Simenon's novel The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (containing the first introduction of inspector Inspector Jules Maigret) in its original French, Hergé's Tintin in the Congo in its original French black-and-white version, and Jean de Brunhoff's The Story of Babar in its original French.

See also

• 1956 in literature and 1976 in literature for deaths of writers
• Public Domain Day
• Creative Commons
• 2028 in public domain

External links

• "Authors by Year of Death – 1956". AuthorAndBookInfo.com. http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/abyod/1956.htm. 
• Popular Books of 1931 at Goodreads