Social:2023 in public domain

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 creators whose works enter the public domain in 2023. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.

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 For previously unpublished material, those who publish it first will have the publication rights for 25 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Youssef Aftimus	Lebanon	1866	1952	Architect	Beirut City Hall
Betty Allan	Australia	1905	1952	Statistician
August Alle	Estonia	1890	1952	Writer
Paul Hastings Allen	United States	1883	1952	Composer
Aziza Amir	Egypt	1901	1952	Screenwriter, actress	A Girl from Palestine
Charles Ancliffe	United Kingdom	1880	1952	Composer
Céline Arnauld	France	1885	1952	Writer
Yury Artsybushev	Russia	1877	1952	Painter
Alice Austen	United States	1866	1952	Photographer
Frederic Austin	United Kingdom	1872	1952	Composer, singer	List of compositions by Frederic Austin
Nat Ayer	United States	1887	1952	Composer	The Bing Boys Are Here, Yes, Uncle!
Mariano Azuela	Mexico	1873	1952	Writer	The Underdogs
Adivi Baapiraju	India	1895	1952	Writer
Ferdinand Bac	France	1859	1952	Writer, artist
Jimmy Bancks	Australia	1889	1952	Cartoonist	Ginger Meggs
Bruno Barilli	Italy	1880	1952	Composer
Antonieta de Barros	Brazil	1901	1952	Journalist, politician
Rudolf Hans Bartsch	Austria	1873	1952	Writer
Ioan A. Bassarabescu	Romania	1870	1952	Writer, politician
Gaston Baty	France	1885	1952	Playwright
Nicolae Constantin Batzaria	Romania	1874	1952	Writer, politician
Nikolai Bayev	Armenia	1875	1952	Architect	Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater
John Hay Beith	United Kingdom	1876	1952	Writer	Pip
Zeev Ben-Zvi	Israel	1904	1952	Sculptor
David Bergelson	Soviet Union	1884	1952	Writer
Joseph Berlin	Israel	1877	1952	Architect	Lodzia House
Gino Boccasile	Italy	1901	1952	Illustrator
Waldemar Bonsels	Germany	1880	1952	Writer	Maya the Bee
Giuseppe Antonio Borgese	Italy	1882	1952	Writer
Henriëtte Bosmans	Netherlands	1895	1952	Composer
Erma Bossi	Germany	1875	1952	Painter
Sergei Bortkiewicz	Ukraine	1877	1952	Composer	List of compositions by Sergei Bortkiewicz
Marjorie Bowen	United Kingdom	1885	1952	Writer
Bertram Bracken	United States	1879	1952	Film director, screenwriter
E. J. Brady	Australia	1869	1952	Journalist, poet	The Earthen Floor
Émile Bréhier	France	1876	1952	Philosopher
Margaret Wise Brown	United States	1910	1952	Writer	Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny
Paul Bujor	Romania	1862	1952	Biologist, writer
Delfina Bunge	Argentina	1881	1952	Writer
Adolf Busch	Germany	1891	1952	Musician, composer
Jack Caddigan	United States	1879	1952	Lyricist	"The Rose of No Man's Land"
Brun Campbell	United States	1884	1952	Composer
Adolf Černý	Czech Republic	1864	1952	Poet
Theo Champion	Germany	1887	1952	Painter
Wilfred Rowland Childe	United Kingdom	1890	1952	Writer
Howard Chandler Christy	United States	1872	1952	Painter, illustrator
Max Clarenbach	Germany	1880	1952	Painter
Frederick de Jersey Clere	New Zealand	1856	1952	Architect	St Mary of the Angels, Wellington
Marie Closset	Belgium	1873	1952	Poet
Archie Frederick Collins	United States	1869	1952	Inventor, writer	The Radio Amateur's Handbook
Jack Conway	United States	1887	1952	Film director, actor	A Tale of Two Cities
Romain Coolus	France	1868	1952	Playwright
André Corthis	France	1882	1952	Writer
Annie Sophie Cory	United Kingdom	1868	1952	Writer	Anna Lombard
Kathleen Coyle	Ireland	1886	1952	Writer
Arthur Shearly Cripps	United Kingdom	1869	1952	Writer, religious leader
Benedetto Croce	Italy	1866	1952	Philosopher, historian	Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals
Edward S. Curtis	United States	1868	1952	Photographer, ethnologist	In the Land of the Head Hunters
Catherine Chisholm Cushing	United States	1874	1952	Writer
Sebastião da Gama	Portugal	1924	1952	Poet
Surendranath Dasgupta	India	1887	1952	Philosopher
Jo Davidson	United States	1883	1952	Sculptor
Eugenio de Liguoro	Italy	1899	1952	Film director, actor
John Dewey	United States	1859	1952	Philosopher	John Dewey bibliography
Mikhail Doller	Soviet Union	1889	1952	Film director, screenwriter	The End of St. Petersburg
Norman Douglas	United Kingdom	1868	1952	Writer	South Wind
Harvey Dunn	United States	1884	1952	Painter
Henry Edwards	United Kingdom	1882	1952	Film director, actor
Raymond B. Egan	Canada	1890	1952	Songwriter	"The Japanese Sandman"
Richard Eichberg	Germany	1888	1952	Film director	The Tiger of Eschnapur, The Indian Tomb
Alfred Einstein	Germany	1880	1952	Musicologist
Otto Eis	Austria	1903	1952	Screenwriter
George Grant Elmslie	United States	1869	1952	Architect	Harold C. Bradley House
Paul Éluard	France	1895	1952	Poet
Lydia Field Emmet	United States	1866	1952	Painter
Philip G. Epstein	United States	1909	1952	Screenwriter	Casablanca
Lucien Fabre	France	1889	1952	Writer
Ludwig Fahrenkrog	Germany	1867	1952	Painter
Jeffery Farnol	United Kingdom	1878	1952	Writer	The Broad Highway
Arthur Farwell	United States	1872	1952	Composer
Itzik Feffer	Soviet Union	1900	1952	Poet
Macedonio Fernández	Argentina	1874	1952	Writer	The Museum of Eterna's Novel
John Flanagan	United States	1865	1952	Sculptor
Ernest Florman	Sweden	1863	1952	Film director
Hugh Ford	United States	1868	1952	Film director, screenwriter
Elena Fortún	Spain	1886	1952	Writer	Celia, lo que dice
Gilbert Frankau	United Kingdom	1884	1952	Writer
Charles K. French	United States	1860	1952	Actor, film director, screenwriter
Carl Friedemann	Germany	1862	1952	Composer	"Kaiser Friedrich Marsch"
Svend Gade	Denmark	1877	1952	Film director, screenwriter
Leonhard Gall	Germany	1884	1952	Architect	Führerbau
Sawai Gandharva	India	1886	1952	Singer, teacher
John Murray Gibbon	Canada	1875	1952	Writer	Canadian Mosaic
C. P. H. Gilbert	United States	1861	1952	Architect
Charles Ginner	United Kingdom	1878	1952	Painter
Charles Buxton Going	United States	1863	1952	Engineer, writer
Percy Gray	United States	1869	1952	Painter
Sammy Gronemann	Germany	1875	1952	Writer
René Grousset	France	1885	1952	Historian	The Empire of the Steppes
Ernst Haiger	Germany	1874	1952	Architect
Covington Hall	United States	1871	1952	Activist, writer
Halfdan M. Hanson	Norway	1884	1952	Architect	Our Lady of Good Voyage Church
Cicely Hamilton	United Kingdom	1872	1952	Writer
Gertrude Demain Hammond	United Kingdom	1862	1952	Illustrator
Knut Hamsun	Norway	1859	1952	Writer, poet	Growth of the Soil
Hildegarde Hawthorne	United States	1871	1952	Writer
Sven Hedin	Sweden	1865	1952	Geographer, travel writer	Through Asia Volume 1
Aaro Hellaakoski	Finland	1893	1952	Poet
Fletcher Henderson	United States	1897	1952	Musician, composer	A Study in Frustration
Graily Hewitt	United Kingdom	1864	1952	Calligrapher, writer
Laura Coombs Hills	United States	1859	1952	Artist
David Hofstein	Soviet Union	1889	1952	Poet
Hilda Hongell	Finland	1867	1952	Architect
Curly Howard	United States	1903	1952	Actor
Felix Huch	United States	1880	1952	Writer
Billy Hughes	Australia	1862	1952	Politician
Myron Hunt	United States	1868	1952	Architect	Bridges Hall of Music
Harold Innis	Canada	1894	1952	Economist
Horace Jackson	United States	1898	1952	Screenwriter
Frederick Jacobi	United States	1891	1952	Composer
Rashid Jahan	India	1905	1952	Writer	Angarey
Alan James	United States	1890	1952	Film director, screenwriter
Enrique Jardiel Poncela	Spain	1901	1952	Writer, playwright	We Thieves Are Honourable
Harry Benjamin Jepson	United States	1870	1952	Composer
Frances Benjamin Johnston	United States	1864	1952	Photographer
Owen Johnson	United States	1878	1952	Writer	Stover at Yale
Eugene Jolas	United States	1894	1952	Writer
Herbert Juttke	Germany	1897	1952	Screenwriter
David Kakabadze	Georgia	1889	1952	Painter
Fabjan Kaliterna	Croatia	1886	1952	Architect
Ariake Kambara	Japan	1876	1952	Writer
Aleksandr Kamenskij (ru)	Russia	1900	1952	Composer
Artur Kapp	Estonia	1878	1952	Composer
Bernard Karfiol	United States	1886	1952	Painter
Otto Katz	Czech Republic	1895	1952	Agent, writer
Elizabeth Kenny	Australia	1880	1952	Nurse, physical therapist
Frederic G. Kenyon	United Kingdom	1863	1952	Historian
Rollin Kirby	United States	1875	1952	Cartoonist
Alexandra Kollontai	Russia	1872	1952	Politician, writer	Red Love
Sadie Koninsky	United States	1872	1952	Composer
Kosugi Tengai	Japan	1865	1952	Writer
Vasyl Krychevsky	Ukraine	1873	1952	Painter, architect	Coat of arms of Ukraine
Masao Kume	Japan	1891	1952	Writer
Leib Kvitko	Soviet Union	1890	1952	Poet
Gregory La Cava	United States	1892	1952	Film director	My Man Godfrey
Max Laeuger	Germany	1864	1952	Architect, ceramicist
Alfred La Liberté	Canada	1882	1952	Composer
Karel Lamač	Czech Republic	1897	1952	Film director
William F. Lamb	United States	1883	1952	Architect	Empire State Building
Rued Langgaard	Denmark	1893	1952	Composer	Music of the Spheres
Carlos Alberto Leumann	Argentina	1886	1952	Poet
Heinrich Lilienfein	Germany	1879	1952	Writer
Yrjö Lindegren	Finland	1900	1952	Architect	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Percy Lindsay	Australia	1870	1952	Painter
Julie M. Lippmann	United States	1864	1952	Writer
Jessie Lipscomb	United Kingdom	1861	1952	Sculptor
William J. Long	United States	1867	1952	Writer
Ferdinand Lot	France	1866	1952	Historian
Andrés Luna de San Pedro	Philippines	1887	1952	Architect	First United Building
Desmond MacCarthy	United Kingdom	1877	1952	Writer
J. Farrell MacDonald	United States	1875	1952	Film director, actor
Edward Madden	United States	1878	1952	Songwriter
Mahjoor	India	1887	1952	Poet
Hakob Manandian	Armenia	1873	1952	Historian
Anna Margolin	United States	1887	1952	Poet
Peretz Markish	Soviet Union	1895	1952	Poet
Enrique González Martínez	Mexico	1871	1952	Poet
H. J. Massingham	United Kingdom	1888	1952	Writer, poet
Charles Maurras	France	1868	1952	Writer
Achille Mauzan	France	1883	1952	Illustrator
William Sutherland Maxwell	Canada	1874	1952	Architect	Shrine of the Báb
J. P. McGowan	Australia	1880	1952	Actor, film director	The Hazards of Helen, The Hurricane Express
E. H. W. Meyerstein	United Kingdom	1889	1952	Writer, scholar
Robert Minor	United States	1884	1952	Cartoonist
Mir-Jam	Serbia	1887	1952	Writer
Ferenc Molnár	Hungary	1878	1952	Writer, playwright	The Paul Street Boys, Liliom
Montéhus	France	1872	1952	Songwriter
Italo Montemezzi	Italy	1875	1952	Composer	L'amore dei tre re
Maria Montessori	Italy	1870	1952	Educator
Irving Morrow	United States	1884	1952	Architect	Golden Gate Bridge
Lodewijk Mortelmans	Belgium	1868	1952	Composer
Willy Mullens	Netherlands	1880	1952	Film director
Keith Murdoch	Australia	1885	1952	Journalist
Matija Murko	Slovenia	1861	1952	Literary historian
Herbert Murrill	United Kingdom	1909	1952	Composer
Bangalore Nagarathnamma	India	1878	1952	Singer, writer
Ghulam Bhik Nairang	Pakistan	1876	1952	Poet, politician
Shinpei Nakayama	Japan	1887	1952	Songwriter	"Katyusha's song"
Alfred Neumann	Germany	1895	1952	Writer
John O'Brien	Australia	1878	1952	Priest, poet	"Said Hanrahan"
Ivan Olbracht	Czech Republic	1882	1952	Writer	Nikola Šuhaj loupežník
Herbert Arnould Olivier	United Kingdom	1861	1952	Painter
Paul Ondrusch	Germany	1875	1952	Sculptor
Joseph O'Neill	Ireland	1886	1952	Writer
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando	Italy	1860	1952	Politician
Henry Otto	United States	1877	1952	Film director, actor
Fulton Oursler	United States	1893	1952	Writer	The Greatest Story Ever Told
Russell Owen	United States	1889	1952	Journalist	South of the Sun
Frances Theodora Parsons	United States	1861	1952	Naturalist, writer
Jack Parsons	United States	1914	1952	Engineer, occultist
Teixeira de Pascoaes	Portugal	1877	1952	Writer
Raymond Pech	France	1876	1952	Writer
Constant Permeke	Belgium	1886	1952	Painter, sculptor
Eva Perón	Argentina	1919	1952	Politician, actress	La razón de mi vida
Paul Pierné	France	1874	1952	Composer
Ladislaus Pilars de Pilar	Poland	1874	1952	Poet
Arthur Pink	United Kingdom	1886	1952	Writer
Charles Plisnier	Belgium	1896	1952	Writer	Faux passeports
Pedro Prado	Chile	1886	1952	Writer
Chilukuri Narayana Rao	India	1890	1952	Writer
Hugo Raudsepp	Estonia	1896	1952	Writer, politician
Karl Ludvig Reichelt	Norway	1877	1952	Writer
Elizabeth Robins	United States	1862	1952	Writer
Lou Rogers	United States	1879	1952	Cartoonist
Henriette Roland Holst	Netherlands	1869	1952	Poet
A. S. W. Rosenbach	United States	1876	1952	Collector, writer
William Roughead	United Kingdom	1870	1952	Writer, lawyer
Joan Rubió	Spain	1870	1952	Architect
Edwin L. Sabin	United States	1870	1952	Writer
Wadia Sabra	Lebanon	1876	1952	Composer
Olaf Saile	Germany	1901	1952	Writer
George Santayana	Spain	1863	1952	Philosopher, writer	The Life of Reason
Garimella Satyanarayana	India	1893	1952	Poet
Fred Sauer	Austria	1886	1952	Film director, screenwriter
Jurgis Savickis	Lithuania	1890	1952	Writer
Alberto Savinio	Italy	1891	1952	Writer, composer
Wilhelm Schäfer	Germany	1868	1952	Writer
Laurence Dwight Smith	United States	1895	1952	Writer
Georg Schumann	Germany	1866	1952	Composer
Vincent Scotto	France	1874	1952	Composer
Philip Walsingham Sergeant	United Kingdom	1872	1952	Writer	Modern Chess Openings
Franz Seitz Sr.	Germany	1887	1952	Film director, screenwriter
Carlo Sforza	Italy	1872	1952	Politician
Ilya Shatrov	Russia	1879	1952	Composer	"On the Hills of Manchuria"
Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik	Russia	1874	1952	Writer, translator
Vladimir Shcherbachov	Soviet Union	1889	1952	Composer
Maria Shkapskaya	Soviet Union	1891	1952	Writer
Rudolf Sieczyński	Austria	1879	1952	Composer	"Vienna, City of My Dreams"
Renato Simoni	Italy	1875	1952	Playwright	Turandot
Christopher Arthur Smith	Australia	1892	1952	Architect	Capri Theatre, Peterborough Town Hall
Leo Smith	United Kingdom	1881	1952	Composer
Herman Sörgel	Germany	1885	1952	Architect
Niles Spencer	United States	1893	1952	Painter
Jaap Speyer	Netherlands	1891	1952	Film director
Fráňa Šrámek	Czech Republic	1877	1952	Writer
Malcolm St. Clair	United States	1897	1952	Film director
Władysław Strzemiński	Poland	1893	1952	Painter
Gusztáv Szerémi	Hungary	1877	1952	Composer
Ray Taylor	United States	1888	1952	Film director
Giovanni Tebaldini	Italy	1864	1952	Composer
Teffi	Russia	1872	1952	Writer
Josephine Tey	United Kingdom	1896	1952	Writer	The Daughter of Time
Jean Tharaud	France	1877	1952	Writer
Anna-Lisa Thomson	Sweden	1905	1952	Ceramist
Henriette Tirman	France	1875	1952	Painter
John Treloar	Australia	1894	1952	Museum administrator
Lamar Trotti	United States	1900	1952	Screenwriter
Josef Thorak	Austria	1889	1952	Sculptor
Uncle Dave Macon	United States	1870	1952	Singer-songwriter
Fartein Valen	Norway	1887	1952	Composer
Antonio María Valencia	Colombia	1902	1952	Composer
Lodewijk van Deyssel	Netherlands	1864	1952	Writer
Johan van Hell	Netherlands	1889	1952	Artist
Louis Valtat	France	1869	1952	Painter
Louis Verneuil	France	1893	1952	Playwright
Clara Viebig	Germany	1860	1952	Writer
Roger Vitrac	France	1899	1952	Playwright, poet
Ellen Roosval von Hallwyl	Sweden	1867	1952	Artist
Karl Wach	Germany	1878	1952	Architect
Lars Israel Wahlman	Sweden	1870	1952	Architect	Tjolöholm Castle
H. T. Webster	United States	1885	1952	Cartoonist	Caspar Milquetoast
Adolph Alexander Weinman	United States	1870	1952	Sculptor	Walking Liberty half dollar, Mercury dime
Percy Wenrich	United States	1885	1952	Composer	"Sail Along, Silv'ry Moon"
Roland West	United States	1885	1952	Film director
Alberto Williams	Argentina	1862	1952	Composer	Poema del Iguazú
Hans Wittwer	Switzerland	1894	1952	Architect	ADGB Trade Union School
Paramahansa Yogananda	India	1893	1952	Yogi, writer	Autobiography of a Yogi
Ellsworth Young	United States	1866	1952	Artist
Ernst Zahn	Switzerland	1867	1952	Writer	Frau Sixta
Lee Woodward Zeigler	United States	1868	1952	Illustrator

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
Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva	Venezuela	1886	1962	Poet
Paul David Devanandan	India	1901	1962	Theologian
A. K. Fazlul Huq	Bangladesh	1873	1962	Politician, writer
Vilayat Hussain Khan	India	1895	1962	Singer, composer
M. Visvesvaraya	India	1861	1962	Civil engineer

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
Fatin Abdel Wahab	Egypt	1913	1972	Film director
Fernando Amorsolo	Philippines	1892	1972	Painter
James K. Baxter	New Zealand	1926	1972	Writer	Beyond the Palisade
Gabriel Cusson	Canada	1903	1972	Composer
Laurence Bradford Dakin	Canada	1904	1972	Writer
Dulcie Deamer	New Zealand	1890	1972	Writer
Eileen Duggan	New Zealand	1894	1972	Poet, journalist
Huguette Gaulin	Canada	1944	1972	Writer
Chang Hsin-hai	China	1898	1972	Writer
John T. Kenney	United Kingdom	1911	1972	Illustrator	The Railway Series
A. M. Klein	Canada	1909	1972	Poet	The Second Scroll
Laurence Manning	Canada	1899	1972	Writer	The Man Who Awoke
Liang Sicheng	China	1901	1972	Architect
Edward McCourt	Canada	1907	1972	Writer
Watchman Nee	China	1903	1972	Church leader	The Normal Christian Life
Ronald Hugh Morrieson	New Zealand	1922	1972	Writer	Came A Hot Friday, The Scarecrow
John Pascoe	New Zealand	1908	1972	Mountaineer, writer	Unclimbed New Zealand
John Reid	New Zealand	1916	1972	Writer, academic
Bertrand William Sinclair	Canada	1908	1972	Writer	The Inverted Pyramid
Kamel el-Telmissany	Egypt	1915	1972	Film director
Ramón Valera	Philippines	1912	1972	Fashion designer
Ismail Yassin	Egypt	1912	1972	Actor

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.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Alexander Belyaev	Soviet Union	1884	1942	Science fiction author	Professor Dowell's Head
Ernest Bramah	United Kingdom	1868	1942	Author
Gaspar Camps (es)	Spain	1874	1942	Painter, illustrator
Luisa Casagemas	Spain	1873	1942	Composer
Nictzin Dyalhis	United States	1873	1942	Chemist and short story writer
Miguel Hernández	Spain	1910	1942	Poet, playwright
Pablo Luna	Spain	1879	1942	Composer
Joan Montseny	Spain	1864	1942	Writer
Edwin Vincent Odle	United States	1890	1942	Author
Joan Peiró	Spain	1887	1942	Writer
Irene Polo	Spain	1909	1942	Journalist
Anthony M. Rud	United States	1893	1942	Author
Bruno Schulz	Poland	1892	1942	Author and artist	The Street of Crocodiles

Australia and Canada

In 2004 copyright in Australia changed from a "plus 50" law to a "plus 70" law, in line with the United States and the European Union. But the change was not made retroactive (unlike the 1995 change in the European Union which bought some e.g. 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).

Similarly, Canada amended its Copyright Act in 2022 from a "plus 50" law to a "plus 70" law, coming into force on December 30, 2022, but does not revive expired copyright. No more new Canadian authors will come out of copyright until 1 January 2043 (those who died in 1972).

United States

London After Midnight entered the public domain in this year, after being lost for 58 years in the 1965 MGM vault fire. Only a handful of production stills survive, making it the most sought-after lost film in human history.

Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1927, films released in 1927, and other works published in 1927, entered the public domain in 2023.

Unpublished works whose authors died in 1952 entered the public domain.

Notable films entering the public domain in the United States include Metropolis, the first feature talkie The Jazz Singer, the first Academy Award for Best Picture winner Wings, the lost film London After Midnight, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Napoléon, Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, and the Clara Bow star vehicle It.

Notable books entering the public domain in the United States include To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, Show Boat by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern, and the original versions of the first three books of The Hardy Boys.

The last two short stories in the Canon of Sherlock Holmes, written by Arthur Conan Doyle and subject to a copyright dispute by his estate, and H. Rider Haggard's final book about Allan Quatermain, Allan and the Ice-gods, entered the public domain in 2023.

Miscellaneous

In September 2023, comic book writer Bill Willingham intentionally released the Fables intellectual property into the public domain.

See also

• 1952 in literature and 1972 in literature for deaths of writers
• Public Domain Day
• Creative Commons

External links

• "Authors by Year of Death - 1952". AuthorAndBookInfo.com. http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/abyod/1952.htm. 
• Popular Books of 1927 at Goodreads