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

When a work's [[Copyright|copyright]] expires, it enters the '''[[Social:Public domain|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==
With the exception of {{wipe|Belarus}} (Life + 50 years) and {{wipe|Spain}} (which has a copyright term of Life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988), a work enters the [[Social:Public domain|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 For previously unpublished material, those who publish it first will have the publication rights for 25 years.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.

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="border-spacing:0 style="width:100%"
!Names
!Country
!Birth
!Death
!Occupation
!Notable work
|-
| Alfred Döblin
| {{flag|Germany}}
| {{dts|1878|08|10|format=dmy}}
| {{dts|1957|06|26|format=dmy}}
| Writer
| Berlin Alexanderplatz
|-
| Nikos Kazantzakis
| {{flag|Greece}}
| {{dts|1883|03|02|format=dmy}}
| {{dts|1957|10|26|format=dmy}}
| Writer
| ''Ασκητική. Salvatores dei'', ''Captain Michalis'', ''The Last Temptation of Christ'', ''Zorba the Greek''
|-
| František Kupka
| {{flag|Czech Republic}}
| {{dts|1871|09|23|format=dmy}}
| {{dts|1957|06|24|format=dmy}}
| Painter
| The Cathedral (Katedrála)
|-
| Josef Lada
| {{flag|Czech Republic}}
| {{dts|1887|12|17|format=dmy}}
| {{dts|1957|12|14|format=dmy}}
| Painter, illustrator and writer
| ''Kater Mikesch'', illustrations for ''The Good Soldier Švejk''
|-
| Diego Riviera
| {{flag|Mexico}}
| {{dts|1886|12|08|format=dmy}}
| {{dts|1957|11|24|format=dmy}}
| Painter
| Man at the Crossroads
|-
| Jean Sibelius
| {{flag|Finland}}
| {{dts|1865|12|08|format=dmy}}
| {{dts|1957|09|20|format=dmy}}
| Composer
| List of compositions by Jean Sibelius
|-
| Laura Ingalls Wilder
| {{flag|United States}}
| {{dts|1867|02|07|format=dmy}}
| {{dts|1957|02|10|format=dmy}}
| Writer
| Little House on the Prairie
|-
| [[Biography:John von Neumann|John von Neumann]]
| {{flag|Hungary}}<br />{{flag|United States}}
| {{dts|1903|12|28|format=dmy}}
| {{dts|1957|02|08|format=dmy}}
| Mathematician, physicist, computer scientist
| List of scientific publications by John von Neumann
|}

==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 {{wipe|Belarus}}, Bolivia, [[Earth:New Zealand|New Zealand]], [[Place:Egypt|Egypt]] and Uruguay, a work enters the [[Social:Public domain|public domain]] 50 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
|-
| Margaret Escott
| {{flag|New Zealand}}
| {{dts|1908|07|09|format=dmy}}
| {{dts|1977|08|15|format=dmy}}
| Author
| ''Show Down''
|-
| Edmond Hamilton
| {{flag|United States}}
| {{dts|1904|10|21|format=dmy}}
| {{dts|1977|02|01|format=dmy}}
| Author
| Captain Future
|-
| Vladimir Nabokov
| {{flag|Russia}}
| {{dts|1899|04|22|format=dmy}}
| {{dts|1977|07|02|format=dmy}}
| Author
| ''Lolita''
|-
| Anaïs Nin
| {{flag|France}}
| {{dts|1903|02|21|format=dmy}}
| {{dts|1977|01|14|format=dmy}}
| Author
| ''Delta of Venus''
|-
| Dennis Wheatley
| {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| {{dts|1897|01|08|format=dmy}}
| {{dts|1977|11|10|format=dmy}}
| Author
| ''The Devil Rides Out''
|}

==Countries with life + 80 years==
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==

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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Copyright and the Public Domain |publisher=Public Domain Information Project |url=http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php|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> 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 [[Social:Marathi language|Marathi language]] sound film ''Ayodhyecha Raja'', Walt Disney's ''Flowers and Trees'', and ''Mickey's Revue'' with the first appearance of Goofy.

Examples of important literary works entering the public domain include [[Biography:Aldous Huxley|Aldous Huxley]]'s ''Brave New World'', [[Biography:William Faulkner|William Faulkner]]'s ''Light in August'', Samuel Becket's ''Dream of Fair to Middling Women'', Graham Greene's ''Stamboul Train'', [[Biography:Ernest Hemingway|Ernest Hemingway]]'s ''Death in the Afternoon'', Zelda Fitzgerald's ''Save Me the Waltz'', [[Biography:John Steinbeck|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==
* 1957 in literature and 1977 in literature for deaths of writers
* [[Social:Public Domain Day|Public Domain Day]]
* [[Organization:Creative Commons|Creative Commons]]
* 2029 in public domain

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.goodreads.com/book/popular_by_date/1932 Popular Books of 1932] at [[Company:Goodreads|Goodreads]]

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