Social:2016 in public domain
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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 2016. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.
Authors entering the public domain
Authors entering the public domain 70 years after death
With the exception of Belarus and Spain , a work enters the public domain in Europe and Brazil 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, 2016.[1][2]
Names | Country | Birth | Death | Occupation | Notable work |
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Achmed Abdullah | ![]() |
1881 | 1945 | Pulp writer and screenwriter | |
Nikola Avramov | ![]() |
1897 | 1945 | Still life paintings | |
Milena Pavlović-Barili | ![]() |
1909 | 1945 | Painter, poet | |
Maurice Baring | ![]() |
1874 | 1945 | Writer | |
Béla Bartók | ![]() |
1881 | 1945 | Composer | Concerto for Orchestra |
Robert Benchley | ![]() |
1889 | 1945 | Humorist | newspaper and magazine columns |
Henry Bellamann | ![]() |
1882 | 1945 | Writer | Kings Row |
Ursula Bethell | ![]() |
1874 | 1945 | Poet | Collected poetry |
Vilhelms Bokslafs | ![]() ![]() |
1858 | 1945 | Architect | Most notable buildings are Jaunmokas Manor near Tukums and Commercial school in Riga (now Art Academy of Latvia) |
Nicola Bombacci | ![]() |
1879 | 1945 | Marxist-Fascist journalist | Il mio pensiero sul bolscevismo (1941), I contadini nella Russia di Stalin (1942), I contadini nell'Italia di Mussolini (1943) |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer | ![]() |
1906 | 1945 | Theologian | |
Robert Brasillach | ![]() |
1909 | 1945 | Writer | Je suis partout |
Miles J. Breuer | ![]() |
1889 | 1945 | Writer | "The Gostak and the Doshes" (1930) and other science fiction stories |
Fritz Brupbacher | ![]() |
1874 | 1945 | Writer | Der Sinn des Lebens |
Thomas Burke | ![]() |
1886 | 1945 | Writer | Limehouse Nights |
Alexander Stirling Calder | ![]() |
1870 | 1945 | Sculptor | George Washington as President |
David Young Cameron | ![]() |
1865 | 1945 | Artist | |
Franklin Carmichael | ![]() |
1890 | 1945 | Artist | |
Anica Černej | ![]() |
1900 | 1945 | Author, poet | |
Benjamin De Casseres | ![]() |
1873 | 1945 | Journalist, poet | The Shadow-Eater |
Margaret Deland | ![]() |
1856 | 1945 | Writer | John Ward, Preacher |
Mário de Andrade | ![]() |
1893 | 1945 | Writer | Macunaíma |
Robert Desnos | ![]() |
1900 | 1945 | Poet | |
Maurice Donnay | ![]() |
1859 | 1945 | Dramatist | |
Lord Alfred Douglas | ![]() |
1859 | 1945 | Writer | Two Loves |
Theodore Dreiser | ![]() |
1871 | 1945 | Writer, journalist | Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy |
E. R. Eddison | ![]() |
1882 | 1945 | Writer | The Worm Ouroboros |
Gus Edwards | ![]() |
1879 | 1945 | Songwriter | "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "In My Merry Oldsmobile" |
Eleanor Fortescue-Brigdale | ![]() |
1871 | 1945 | Artist | The Uninvited Guest, Riches |
Anne Frank | ![]() ![]() |
1929 | 1945 | Diarist | The Diary of a Young Girl |
Øvre Richter Frich | ![]() |
1872 | 1945 | Writer, journalist | |
Zinaida Gippius | ![]() |
1869 | 1945 | Writer, poet | |
Adolf Hitler | ![]() |
1889 | 1945 | Politician, Dictator of Nazi Germany | Mein Kampf, Zweites Buch |
Suphi Nuri İleri | ![]() |
1887 | 1945 | Writer | |
Ljubomir Ivanović | ![]() |
1882 | 1945 | Printmaker, draughtsman | |
Malcolm Jameson | ![]() |
1891 | 1945 | Writer | Writer for American pulp magazines during the Golden Age of Science Fiction |
Joseph Jastrow | ![]() |
1863 | 1945 | Psychologist | |
Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski | ![]() |
1885 | 1945 | Writer, journalist | |
Osman Cemal Kaygılı | ![]() |
1879 | 1945 | Writer | |
Carl Wilhelm Kern | ![]() |
1874 | 1945 | Composer | |
Käthe Kollwitz | ![]() |
1867 | 1945 | Artist | The Prisoners |
Julius Korngold | ![]() |
1860 | 1945 | Music critic | |
Jaroslav Kratochvil | ![]() |
1885 | 1945 | Writer | |
René Lalique | ![]() |
1860 | 1945 | Glass designer | |
Else Lasker-Schüler | ![]() |
1869 | 1945 | Writer | poetry and plays |
James Leatham[3] | ![]() |
1865 | 1945 | Writer, printer, publisher | |
Jonas Lie | ![]() |
1899 | 1945 | Writer, minister | |
David Lindsay | ![]() |
1876 | 1945 | Writer | A Voyage to Arcturus |
Eoin MacNeill | ![]() |
1867 | 1945 | Writer | Phases of Irish History |
Tobias Matthay | ![]() |
1858 | 1945 | Teacher, pianist, composer | writings on piano playing |
Arthur Mendel | ![]() |
1872 | 1945 | Painter | |
Régis Messac | ![]() |
1893 | 1945 | Writer, poet, translator | |
James V. Monaco | ![]() |
1885 | 1945 | Songwriter | "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)" |
Arthur Morrison | ![]() |
1863 | 1945 | Writer | A Child of the Jago |
Benito Mussolini | ![]() |
1883 | 1945 | Politician | My Autobiography |
Moritz Nähr | ![]() |
1859 | 1945 | Photographer | |
Alla Nazimova | ![]() |
1879 | 1945 | Writer, actor | |
Dobri Nemirov | ![]() |
1882 | 1945 | Writer | When I was young |
Otto Neurath | ![]() |
1882 | 1945 | Writer | Anti-Spengler |
Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen | ![]() |
1863 | 1945 | Sculptor | Equestrian Statue of King Christian IX, Copenhagen |
Charles Gilman Norris | ![]() |
1881 | 1945 | Writer, playwright | Salt (1919) |
George S. Patton | ![]() |
1885 | 1945 | General | War As I Knew it |
Harry Pease (de) | ![]() |
1886 | 1944 | Songwriter | |
Calel Perechodnik | ![]() |
1916 | 1945 | Diarist | |
Ion Pillat | ![]() |
1891 | 1945 | Poet | Pe Argeș în sus, Poeme într-un vers |
Karel Poláček | ![]() |
1892 | 1945 | Writer | |
Vilhelms Purvītis | ![]() ![]() |
1872 | 1945 | Landscape painter and educator | |
Ernö Rapée | ![]() |
1891 | 1945 | Composer | silent film music |
Edward Prosser Rhys | ![]() |
1901 | 1945 | Writer | Cerddi Prosser Rhys |
Albert Richards | ![]() |
1919 | 1945 | Artist | Artwork produced during the Second World War about the British war effort |
Alexander Roda Roda | ![]() |
1872 | 1945 | Writer | |
Hando Ruus | ![]() |
1917 | 1945 | Military captain, artist | |
Felix Salten | ![]() |
1869 | 1945 | Writer | Bambi. Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde |
Alexander Siloti | ![]() |
1863 | 1945 | Pianist, composer | |
Kārlis Skalbe | ![]() ![]() |
1879 | 1945 | Writer, poet, and activist | |
Paul Smărăndescu | ![]() |
1881 | 1945 | Architect | |
Antal Szerb | ![]() |
1901 | 1945 | Writer | The Pendragon Legend |
Ong Schan Tchow | ![]() |
1900 | 1945 | Artist | Book of Chrysanthemums |
Nikolai Tcherepnin | ![]() |
1873 | 1945 | Composer | |
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy | ![]() |
1873 | 1945 | Writer | Aelita, The Garin Death Ray, The Road to Calvary |
Teodor Trayanov | ![]() |
1882 | 1945 | Poet | Song of songs, Regina Mortua, Hymns and Ballads |
Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil | ![]() |
1866 | 1945 | Writer | |
Anton Webern | ![]() |
1883 | 1945 | Composer | |
Franz Werfel | ![]() |
1890 | 1945 | Writer | The Song of Bernadette |
Charles Williams | ![]() |
1886 | 1945 | Writer | Descent into Hell |
John R. Commons | ![]() |
1862 | 1945 | Economist | Institutional Economics |
August Lösch | ![]() |
1906 | 1945 | Economist | Die räumliche Ordnung der Wirtschaft |
David Lloyd George | ![]() |
1863 | 1945 | Politician | The Truth About The Peace Treaty, War Memoirs |
Joseph Goebbels | ![]() |
1897 | 1945 | Politician | Goebbels Diaries |
Entering the public domain in the United States
The Copyright Term Extension Act means no published works would enter the public domain in this jurisdiction until 2019.[4] Only unpublished works whose authors died in 1945 enter the public domain.
Works entering in public domain in 2016 by media
Books
- A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
- Sidney, Philip and His Wife, The Awakening of Helena Richie, The Iron Woman, The Rising Tide by Margaret Deland.
- Paulicéia Desvairada, Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade
- Aşk-ı Memnu, Kırık Hayatlar by Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil
- Bambi, a Life in the Woods, Bambi's Children, Josephine Mutzenbacher, The Hound of Florence, Fünf Minuten Amerika, Perri by Felix Salten.
- Red Plague Poem by Józef Szczepański
- Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison
- Collection of Poems. 1889–1903 and Collection of Poems. Book 2. 1903-1909 by Zinaida Gippius
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
- Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, The Financier, The Titan, The "Genius", An American Tragedy, Chains: Lesser Novels and Stories, The Bulwark, The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser.
- The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison
Images
- Winter by Vilhelms Purvītis
Music
- Six string quartets and Cantata Profana by Béla Bartók.
- Variations for piano, op. 27, String Quartet, Op. 28, Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24 by Anton Webern.
- Prelude in E minor, BWV 855a by Alexander Siloti
- Music of Le Pavillon d'Armide Ballet by Nikolai Tcherepnin
- You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It) by James V. Monaco and Joseph McCarthy.
See also
- 2012 in public domain
- 2013 in public domain
- 2014 in public domain
- 2015 in public domain
- 2017 in public domain
- 2018 in public domain
- 2019 in public domain
- 2020 in public domain
- 2021 in public domain
- 2022 in public domain
- List of countries' copyright lengths
- Public Domain Day
- Creative Commons
- Public Domain
- Over 300 public domain authors available in Wikisource (any language), with descriptions from Wikidata
- 1945 in literature, 1955 in literature, 1965 in literature and 1975 in literature
References
- ↑ "EU Extends Copyright Term To 70 Years | Billboard". Billboard.biz. 2011-09-12. http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/publishing/eu-extends-copyright-term-to-70-years-1005348552.story. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
- ↑ Directive 2006/116/EC
- ↑ Crick, Martin (1994). The History of the Social-Democratic Federation. Edinburgh University Press. p. 311. ISBN 978-1-85331-091-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=eea_kByVYsoC&pg=PA311.
- ↑ "Copyright and the Public Domain". Public Domain Information Project. http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
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