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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 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.[1][2] 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.[3][4] If the work is owned by a corporation, then the copyright extends 95 years.[5]

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.[6]

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