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
Achmed Abdullah  United States 1881 1945 Pulp writer and screenwriter
Nikola Avramov  Bulgaria 1897 1945 Still life paintings
Milena Pavlović-Barili  Serbia 1909 1945 Painter, poet
Maurice Baring  United Kingdom 1874 1945 Writer
Béla Bartók  Hungary 1881 1945 Composer Concerto for Orchestra
Robert Benchley  United States 1889 1945 Humorist newspaper and magazine columns
Henry Bellamann  United States 1882 1945 Writer Kings Row
Ursula Bethell  New Zealand 1874 1945 Poet Collected poetry
Vilhelms Bokslafs  Latvia
 Russian Empire
1858 1945 Architect Most notable buildings are Jaunmokas Manor near Tukums and Commercial school in Riga (now Art Academy of Latvia)
Nicola Bombacci  Italy 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  Germany 1906 1945 Theologian
Robert Brasillach  France 1909 1945 Writer Je suis partout
Miles J. Breuer  United States 1889 1945 Writer "The Gostak and the Doshes" (1930) and other science fiction stories
Fritz Brupbacher   Switzerland 1874 1945 Writer Der Sinn des Lebens
Thomas Burke  United Kingdom 1886 1945 Writer Limehouse Nights
Alexander Stirling Calder  United States 1870 1945 Sculptor George Washington as President
David Young Cameron  United Kingdom 1865 1945 Artist
Franklin Carmichael  Canada 1890 1945 Artist
Anica Černej  Slovenia 1900 1945 Author, poet
Benjamin De Casseres  United States 1873 1945 Journalist, poet The Shadow-Eater
Margaret Deland  United States 1856 1945 Writer John Ward, Preacher
Mário de Andrade  Brazil 1893 1945 Writer Macunaíma
Robert Desnos  France 1900 1945 Poet
Maurice Donnay  France 1859 1945 Dramatist
Lord Alfred Douglas  United Kingdom 1859 1945 Writer Two Loves
Theodore Dreiser  United States 1871 1945 Writer, journalist Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy
E. R. Eddison  United Kingdom 1882 1945 Writer The Worm Ouroboros
Gus Edwards  United States 1879 1945 Songwriter "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "In My Merry Oldsmobile"
Eleanor Fortescue-Brigdale  United Kingdom 1871 1945 Artist The Uninvited Guest, Riches
Anne Frank  Germany
Netherlands
1929 1945 Diarist The Diary of a Young Girl
Øvre Richter Frich  Norway 1872 1945 Writer, journalist
Zinaida Gippius  Russia 1869 1945 Writer, poet
Adolf Hitler  Germany 1889 1945 Politician, Dictator of Nazi Germany Mein Kampf, Zweites Buch
Suphi Nuri İleri  Turkey 1887 1945 Writer
Ljubomir Ivanović  Serbia 1882 1945 Printmaker, draughtsman
Malcolm Jameson  United States 1891 1945 Writer Writer for American pulp magazines during the Golden Age of Science Fiction
Joseph Jastrow  United States 1863 1945 Psychologist
Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski  Poland 1885 1945 Writer, journalist
Osman Cemal Kaygılı  Turkey 1879 1945 Writer
Carl Wilhelm Kern  United States 1874 1945 Composer
Käthe Kollwitz  Germany 1867 1945 Artist The Prisoners
Julius Korngold  Austria 1860 1945 Music critic
Jaroslav Kratochvil [cs]  Czech Republic 1885 1945 Writer
René Lalique  France 1860 1945 Glass designer
Else Lasker-Schüler  Germany 1869 1945 Writer poetry and plays
James Leatham[3]  United Kingdom 1865 1945 Writer, printer, publisher
Jonas Lie  Norway 1899 1945 Writer, minister
David Lindsay  United Kingdom 1876 1945 Writer A Voyage to Arcturus
Eoin MacNeill  Ireland 1867 1945 Writer Phases of Irish History
Tobias Matthay  United Kingdom 1858 1945 Teacher, pianist, composer writings on piano playing
Arthur Mendel [ro]  Romania 1872 1945 Painter
Régis Messac  France 1893 1945 Writer, poet, translator
James V. Monaco  United States 1885 1945 Songwriter "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)"
Arthur Morrison  United Kingdom 1863 1945 Writer A Child of the Jago
Benito Mussolini  Italy 1883 1945 Politician My Autobiography
Moritz Nähr  Austria 1859 1945 Photographer
Alla Nazimova  United States 1879 1945 Writer, actor
Dobri Nemirov [bg]  Bulgaria 1882 1945 Writer When I was young
Otto Neurath  Austria 1882 1945 Writer Anti-Spengler
Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen  Denmark 1863 1945 Sculptor Equestrian Statue of King Christian IX, Copenhagen
Charles Gilman Norris  United States 1881 1945 Writer, playwright Salt (1919)
George S. Patton  United States 1885 1945 General War As I Knew it
Harry Pease (de)  United States 1886 1944 Songwriter
Calel Perechodnik  Poland 1916 1945 Diarist
Ion Pillat  Romania 1891 1945 Poet Pe Argeș în sus, Poeme într-un vers
Karel Poláček  Czech Republic 1892 1945 Writer
Vilhelms Purvītis  Latvia
 Russian Empire
1872 1945 Landscape painter and educator
Ernö Rapée  United States 1891 1945 Composer silent film music
Edward Prosser Rhys  United Kingdom 1901 1945 Writer Cerddi Prosser Rhys
Albert Richards  United Kingdom 1919 1945 Artist Artwork produced during the Second World War about the British war effort
Alexander Roda Roda  Austria 1872 1945 Writer
Hando Ruus  Estonia 1917 1945 Military captain, artist
Felix Salten  Austria 1869 1945 Writer Bambi. Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde
Alexander Siloti  Ukraine 1863 1945 Pianist, composer
Kārlis Skalbe  Latvia
 Russian Empire
1879 1945 Writer, poet, and activist
Paul Smărăndescu [ro]  Romania 1881 1945 Architect
Antal Szerb  Hungary 1901 1945 Writer The Pendragon Legend
Ong Schan Tchow  China 1900 1945 Artist Book of Chrysanthemums
Nikolai Tcherepnin  Russia 1873 1945 Composer
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy  Russia 1873 1945 Writer Aelita, The Garin Death Ray, The Road to Calvary
Teodor Trayanov [bg]  Bulgaria 1882 1945 Poet Song of songs, Regina Mortua, Hymns and Ballads
Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil  Turkey 1866 1945 Writer
Anton Webern  Austria 1883 1945 Composer
Franz Werfel  Austria 1890 1945 Writer The Song of Bernadette
Charles Williams  United Kingdom 1886 1945 Writer Descent into Hell
John R. Commons  United States 1862 1945 Economist Institutional Economics
August Lösch  Germany 1906 1945 Economist Die räumliche Ordnung der Wirtschaft
David Lloyd George  United Kingdom 1863 1945 Politician The Truth About The Peace Treaty, War Memoirs
Joseph Goebbels  Germany 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

References