Social:2022 in public domain

Short description: Overview of works entering public domain

The following is a list of creators whose works enter the public domain on 1 January 2022. When copyright expires in a creative work, it enters the public domain. Since copyright terms vary from country to country, the copyright status of a work may not be the same in all countries.

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 its creator's death, if it was published during their lifetime. For previously unpublished material, those who publish it first retain the publication rights for 25 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator's that entered the public domain on 1 January 2022.

Other countries with a copyright term of life + 70 years are Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru, Paraguay, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Japan , Russia , Indonesia, Israel, Armenia, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Singapore, South Korea , Dominican Republic, Ghana, Madagascar , Mozambique, Senegal, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Louis Adamic	United States	1898	1951	Writer	Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America
Bartlett Adamson	Australia	1884	1951	Journalist, writer, and political activist
Jyoti Prasad Agarwala	India	1903	1951	Film director, playwright, writer	Joymoti
Choudhry Rahmat Ali	Pakistan	1897	1951	Jurist	Pakistan Declaration
Muhammad Ali	India	1874	1951	Writer
Egbert Van Alstyne	United States	1878	1951	Composer	"In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree", "Pretty Baby"
Aram Andonian	Armenia	1875	1951	Writer	The Memoirs of Naim Bey
Leopold Andrian	Austria	1875	1951	Writer
Henry W. Armstrong	United States	1879	1951	Composer	Sweet Adeline
Numa Ayrinhac	Argentina	1881	1951	Painter
Resurrección María de Azkue	Spain	1864	1951	Writer
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar	Iran	1886	1951	Poet
R. H. Barlow	United States	1918	1951	Writer, anthropologist
Sarah Jane Baines	Australia	1866	1951	Feminist, suffragette, social reformer
Jacques de Baroncelli	France	1881	1951	Film director
Gaspar Agüero Barreras	Cuba	1873	1951	Pianist, composer
Pramathesh Barua	India	1903	1951	Film director, actor, writer
Daisy Bates	Australia	1859	1951	Journalist, welfare worker
Celadet Alî Bedirxan	Turkey	1893	1951	Writer, linguist
Frank Weston Benson	United States	1862	1951	Painter	List of works by Frank Weston Benson
Jørgen Bentzon	Denmark	1897	1951	Composer
Konstantin Biebl	Czech Republic	1898	1951	Poet
Leo Birinski	Germany	1884	1951	Playwright, screenwriter, film director
Dorothea Foster Black	Australia	1891	1951	Painter and printmaker
Algernon Blackwood	United Kingdom	1869	1951	Journalist, writer	Incredible Adventures, "The Willows", "The Wendigo" and The Doll and One Other
Thomas Blamey	Australia	1884	1951	Soldier
Francisco Boix	Spain	1920	1951	Photographer	Photographs of Mauthausen concentration camp
Ivanoe Bonomi	Italy	1873	1951	Politician
Stephen Bonsal	United States	1865	1951	Journalist, writer
Tadeusz Borowski	Poland	1922	1951	Writer, journalist
Herman Charles Bosman	South Africa	1905	1951	Writer
Alfred-Alphonse Bottiau	France	1889	1951	Sculptor
James Bridie	Scotland	1888	1951	Playwright, screenwriter, physician
Hermann Broch	Austria	1886	1951	Writer	The Sleepwalkers, The Death of Virgil
Gelett Burgess	United States	1866	1951	Writer	"Purple Cow"
Abraham Cahan	United States	1860	1951	Writer	The Rise of David Levinsky
Andrew Caldecott	United Kingdom	1884	1951	Writer and British colonial administrator
Amy Carmichael	Ireland	1867	1951	Writer
John Alden Carpenter	United States	1876	1951	Composer
Ethel Carrick	Australia	1872	1951	Artist
Émile Chartier	France	1868	1951	Writer
Alphonse de Châteaubriant	France	1877	1951	Writer	Monsieur des Lourdines, La Brière
Edfwin Cheel	Australia	1872	1951	Botanist, collector
Peter Cheyney	United Kingdom	1896	1951	Writer	Lemmy Caution, Slim Callaghan
Ben Chifley	Australia	1885	1951	Politician
Cho Ki-chon	North Korea	1913	1951	Poet
Gendün Chöphel	Tibet	1903	1951	Writer, poet
Al Christie	Canada	1881	1951	Film director
Halfdan Cleve	Norway	1879	1951	Composer
Christabel Cockerell	United Kingdom	1864	1951	Painter
Charles Pearce Coleman	Australia	1885	1951	Actor
Edith Coleman	Australia	1874	1951	Naturalist
Gustav Cords	Germany	1870	1951	Composer
Cara David	Australia	1856	1951	Educator, feminist, social reformer
Wilfrid de Glehn	United Kingdom	1870	1951	Painter
Nirupama Devi	India	1883	1951	Writer
Enrique Santos Discépolo	Argentina	1901	1951	Composer, director
Hans Andrias Djurhuus	Faroe Islands	1883	1951	Poet, writer
Lloyd C. Douglas	United States	1877	1951	Writer, pastor	Magnificent Obsession, The Robe
Georgios Drossinis	Greece	1859	1951	Writer
Frank DuMond	United States	1865	1951	Illustrator, painter
József Egry	Hungary	1883	1951	Painter
Mário Eloy	Portugal	1900	1951	Painter
Anastasia Eristavi-Khoshtaria	Georgia	1868	1951	Writer
John Erskine	United States	1879	1951	Writer, composer	The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent
Egypt	1870	1951	Poet
Georgy Fedotov	Russia	1886	1951	Writer
Fei Mu	China	1906	1951	Film director	Spring in a Small Town
Jerzy Fitelberg	United States	1903	1951	Composer
Kristo Floqi	Albania	1876	1951	Playwright, politician
John Flynn	Australia	1880	1951	Minister, aviator
Josef Bohuslav Foerster	Czech Republic	1859	1951	Composer	List of compositions by Josef Bohuslav Foerster
Robert J. Flaherty	United States	1884	1951	Filmmaker	Nanook of the North
Pietro Frosini	Italy	1885	1951	Musician, composer
Gao Jianfu	China	1879	1951	Painter
André Gide	France	1869	1951	Writer	Bibliography of André Gide
Bert Grant	United States	1878	1951	Composer
María Grever	Mexico	1885	1951	Composer	"What a Diff'rence a Day Makes"
René Guenon	France	1886	1951	Philosopher and Sufi Scholar	The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
Jacinto Guerrero	Spain	1895	1951	Composer
James Norman Hall	United States	1887	1951	Writer	Mutiny on the Bounty
Ebbe Hamerik	Denmark	1898	1951	Composer
Tamiki Hara	Japan	1905	1951	Writer	Summer Flower
Fumiko Hayashi	Japan	1903	1951	Writer	Bangiku
Józef Hecht	Poland	1891	1951	Printmaker, painter
Sadegh Hedayat	Iran	1903	1951	Writer, poet	The Blind Owl, The Stray Dog
Thomas N. Heffron	United States	1872	1951	Film director
Geoffrey Forrest Hughes	Australia	1885	1951	Aviator
Herman Hupfeld	United States	1894	1951	Songwriter	"As Time Goes By", "Let's Put Out the Lights (and Go to Sleep)"
Jenő Illés	Hungary	1879	1951	Film director
Ernest Ludvig Ipsen	United States	1869	1951	Painter
George Jeske	United States	1891	1951	Film director
Tor Jonsson	Norway	1916	1951	Poet
Gustave-Henri Jossot	France	1866	1951	Illustrator, painter
Robert Kahn	Germany	1865	1951	Composer
Alfrēds Kalniņš	Latvia	1879	1951	Composer
Germany	1872	1951	Archeologist
Kim Dong-in	Korea	1900	1951	Writer
Kim Myeong-sun	Korea	1896	1951	Writer
Kitawaki Noboru	Japan	1901	1951	Painter
Tyra Kleen	Sweden	1874	1951	Writer
Georg af Klercker	Sweden	1877	1951	Film director	South of the Highway
Katarzyna Kobro	Poland	1898	1951	Avant-garde sculptor
Alexander Krein	Soviet Union	1883	1951	Composer
Kwee Tek Hoay	Indonesia	1886	1951	Writer	List of works by Kwee Tek Hoay
Constant Lambert	United Kingdom	1905	1951	Composer	List of compositions by Constant Lambert
Louis Lavelle	France	1883	1951	Philosopher
Ernestina Lecuona	Cuba	1882	1951	Pianist, composer
Henri-René Lenormand	France	1882	1951	Playwright
Sinclair Lewis	United States	1885	1951	Writer	Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith
J. C. Leyendecker	United States	1874	1951	Illustrator	The Arrow Collar Man
Heinz von Lichberg	Germany	1890	1951	Writer	"Lolita"
Ana Aurora do Amaral Lisboa (pt)	Brazil	1860	1951	Poet
Benito Lynch	Argentina	1885	1951	Writer	The Caranchos of Florida, The Englishman of the Bones, The Romance of a Gaucho
Richard Malden	United Kingdom	1879	1951	Biblical scholar, editor, author of ghost stories
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim	Finland	1867	1951	Politician, memoirist
Homero Manzi	Argentina	1907	1951	Writer
Edwin L. Marin	United States	1899	1951	Film director
Konstantin Märska	Estonia	1896	1951	Film director
Nellie McClung	Canada	1873	1951	Writer
Nikolai Medtner	Russia	1880	1951	Composer	List of compositions by Nikolai Medtner
Oscar Micheaux	United States	1884	1951	Writer, director
Hasrat Mohani	India	1875	1951	Independence activist, poet
Giuseppe Mulè	Italy	1885	1951	Composer
Takashi Nagai	Japan	1908	1951	Writer	The Bells of Nagasaki
Nam Cao	Vietnam	1915	1951	Writer
Ștefan Neaga	Moldova	1900	1951	Composer	Anthem of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
Ndoc Nikaj	Albania	1864	1951	Writer
Ivor Novello	United Kingdom	1893	1951	Composer	"Keep the Home Fires Burning"
Selim Palmgren	Finland	1878	1951	Composer, pianist
Pyotr Pavlenko	Soviet Union	1899	1951	Writer
Scott Pembroke	United States	1889	1951	Film director
Brian Penton	Australia	1904	1951	Journalist, novelist	Landtakers
Felix Petyrek	Austria	1892	1951	Composer
Andrei Platonov	Soviet Union	1899	1951	Writer	The Foundation Pit
Ľudmila Podjavorinská	Slovakia	1872	1951	Writer, poet
Clara Katharina Pollaczek	Austria	1875	1951	Writer
Voydan Popgeorgiev – Chernodrinski	Bulgaria	1875	1951	Playwright, writer	Macedonian Blood Wedding
George Henry Powell	United Kingdom	1880	1951	Songwriter	"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag"
Paula von Preradović	Austria	1887	1951	Writer	National anthem of Austria
James Peter Quinn	Australia	1869	1951	Painter
Assen Razcvetnikov	Bulgaria	1897	1951	Writer
Godofredo Rangel	Brazil	1884	1951	Writer, translator
Gholamreza Rashid-Yasemi	Iran	1895	1951	Poet
Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy	India	1880	1951	Educator, writer
Henri Rivière	France	1864	1951	Painter
Sigmund Romberg	United States	1887	1951	Composer
Phil Rosen	United States	1888	1951	Film director
Georges Hanna Sabbagh	France	1877	1951	Painter
Pedro Salinas	Spain	1891	1951	Poet
Harry Schmidt	Germany	1894	1951	Mathematician
Artur Schnabel	Austria	1882	1951	Classical pianist, composer	Artur Schnabel's recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas
Arnold Schoenberg	Austria United States	1874	1951	Composer, music theorist	List of compositions by Arnold Schoenberg
Percival Serle	Australia	1871	1951	Writer
Robert Seton-Watson	United Kingdom	1879	1951	Historian
Levon Shant	Armenia	1869	1951	Playwright
Angelos Sikelianos	Greece	1884	1951	Poet, playwright
S. Sylvan Simon	United States	1910	1951	Film director
Houcine Slaoui	Morocco	1921	1951	Musician
John Sloan	United States	1871	1951	Painter
Pamela Colman Smith	United Kingdom	1878	1951	Illustrator	Rider–Waite tarot deck
Henry De Vere Stacpoole	Ireland	1863	1951	Writer	The Blue Lagoon
Paul L. Stein	Austria	1892	1951	Film director
Arthur Szyk	Poland	1894	1951	Illustrator
Abanindranath Tagore	India	1871	1951	Painter, writer
Maila Talvio	Finland	1871	1951	Writer
Mary Tannahill	United States	1863	1951	Painter
Nikoghayos Tigranian	Armenia	1856	1951	Composer
Timrava	Slovakia	1867	1951	Writer
Marcel Tournier	France	1879	1951	Composer
Walter Trier	Germany	1890	1951	Illustrator	Illustration of Emil and the Detectives and Lilliput covers
Manuel Ugarte	Argentina	1875	1951	Writer
Jan Valtin	Germany	1907	1951	Writer, covert agent
Maxence Van der Meersch	France	1907	1951	Writer
Vsevolod Vishnevsky	Soviet Union	1900	1951	Playwright
Henrik Visnapuu	Estonia	1890	1951	Poet
Will Vodery	United States	1885	1951	Composer
Volodymyr Vynnychenko	Ukraine	1880	1951	Writer, playwright
Richard Wallace	United States	1894	1951	Film director
Jean-Jacques Waltz	France	1873	1951	Illustrator
Nik Welter	Luxembourg	1871	1951	Writer
Ludwig Wittgenstein	Austria United Kingdom	1889	1951	Philosopher	Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations
Wols	Germany	1913	1951	Painter, photographer
Gregorios Xenopoulos	Greece	1867	1951	Writer
Miyamoto Yuriko	Japan	1899	1951	Writer
Corrado Zoli	Italy	1877	1951	Writer
Hermynia Zur Mühlen	Austria	1883	1951	Writer, translator

Countries with life + 60 years

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Mazo de la Roche	Canada	1879	1961	Writer	Jalna
Dashiell Hammett	United States	1896	1961	Writer	The Continental Op, Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles
Hazel Heald	United States	1896	1961	Writer
Ernest Hemingway	United States	1899	1961	Writer	Ernest Hemingway bibliography
Clark Ashton Smith	United States	1896	1961	Writer	Clark Ashton Smith bibliography

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 its creator's death.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Kate Aitken	Canada	1891	1971	Broadcaster	Books
Ya'qoub Al-Oudat	Jordan	1909	1971	Poet, writer	Biography of Mustafa Wahbi et-Tull
John Beaglehole	New Zealand	13 June 1901	10 October 1971	Historian	The Life of Captain James Cook
James Boswell (artist)	New Zealand	9 June 1906	15 April 1971	Artist	The Artist's Dilemma
John W. Campbell	United States	1910	1971	Author and editor	Who Goes There?
Brock Chisholm	Canada	1896	1971	Psychiatrist	Works
August Derleth	United States	1909	1971	Writer	August Derleth bibliography
Abd El-Razzak El-Sanhuri	Egypt	1895	1971	Legal scholar	Al-Waseet fil Qanun
Spain	1886	1971	Composer
Helmy Halim	Egypt	1916	1971	Film director	Our Beautiful Days
Usmar Ismail	Indonesia	1921	1971	Film director	Darah dan Doa
Abdul Jabbar Jomard	Iraq	1909	1971	Historian, Poet
Reginald Alec Martin	United Kingdom	1908	1971	Children's writer	Kemlo
R. A. K. Mason	New Zealand	10 January 1905	13 July 1971	Poet	The Beggar, No New Thing, This Dark Will Lighten: Selected Poems 1923–41
Janka Maŭr	Belarus	1883	1971	Children's writer, translator
Ghulam Rasool Mehr	Pakistan	1895	1971	Scholar	Books
Jim Morrison	United States	1943	1971	Musician	The Doors discography
Ogden Nash	United States	1902	1971	Poet	Bibliography of Ogden Nash
Andre Ryder	Greece Egypt	1908	1971	Musician
Palestine	1923	1971	Poet
Stevie Smith	United Kingdom	1902	1971	Poet, writer	Works
Igor Stravinsky	Russia	1882	1971	Composer	List of compositions by Igor Stravinsky
Frank Underhill	Canada	1889	1971	Historian	Upper Canadian Politics in the 1850s
Philip Wylie	United States	1902	1971	Author	Gladiator

Australia

In 2004 copyright in Australia changed from a "plus 50" law to a "plus 70" law, in line with America and the European Union. But the change was not made retroactive (unlike the 1995 change in the European Union which brought some British authors back into copyright, especially those who died from 1925 to 1944). Hence the work of an author who died before 1955 is normally in the public domain in Australia; but the copyright of authors was extended to 70 years after death for those who died in 1955 or later, and no more Australian authors will come out of copyright until 1 January 2026 (those who died in 1955).

Countries with life + 80 years

Spain , Colombia, and Equatorial Guinea have a copyright term of life + 80 years. For Spain this is for creators who died before 1987. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator's that entered the public domain on 1 January 2022.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Prudenci Bertrana	Spain	1867	1941	Writer	Entre la terra i els núvols
J. Stuart Blackton	United Kingdom United States	1875	1941	Cartoonist, film producer and director	Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
Henry Justice Ford	United Kingdom	1860	1941	Artist and illustrator	Lang's Fairy Books
James Joyce	Ireland	1882	1941	Writer	Ulysses, Dubliners and Finnegans Wake
Spain	1888	1941	Playwright	Plays
Hugh Walpole	United Kingdom	1884	1941	Author	Rogue Herries, The Cathedral and The Dark Forest
Virginia Woolf	United Kingdom	1882	1941	Author	Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves

United States

One of the most notable works to enter the public domain in the United States in 2022 was Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne.

All sheet music published in 1926 entered the public domain. Under the Music Modernization Act, tens of thousands of sound recordings that were published before 1923 entered the public domain on 1 January 2022. The Library of Congress says that this will result in "Increased public and online access to previously unavailable recordings and expanded opportunities to explore the earliest days of our sound recording heritage." Sound recordings that were first published after December 31, 1922, have not yet entered the public domain.

Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1926, films released in 1926, and other works published in 1926 entered the public domain in 2022.

Notable books entering the public domain in the United States included The Sun Also Rises, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Winnie-the-Pooh, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and Bambi, a Life in the Woods.

Notable films entering the public domain in the United States included Don Juan (one of the early sound films) and The Son of the Sheik (Rudolph Valentino's final film).

Unpublished works by authors who died in 1951 entered the public domain.

See also

• List of American films of 1926
• 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
• 1950 in literature, 1960 in literature, 1971 in literature

External links

• "Authors by Year of Death - 1951". AuthorAndBookInfo.com. http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/abyod/1951.htm. 
• Popular Books of 1926 at Goodreads