2010 in 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 2010. 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 & 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.[1][2] The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator that entered the public domain on January 1, 2010.
Names | Country | Birth | Death | Occupation | Notable work |
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Margarete Böhme | ![]() | 8 May 1867 | 23 May 1939 | novelist, short story writer | Tagebuch einer Verlorenen |
Solomon Cleaver | ![]() | 1855 | 1939 | novelist | Jean Val Jean |
Ethel M. Dell | ![]() | 2 August 1881 | 17 September 1939 | romance novelist | The Rocks of Valpré |
Mary Frances Dowdall | ![]() | 11 February 1876 | 1939 | novelist | Susie Yesterday, To-Day, and Forever, ; Three Loving Ladies, The Tactless Man |
Havelock Ellis | ![]() | 2 February 1859 | 8 July 1939 | medical textbook writer, eugenicist, psychologist | Studies in the Psychology of Sex Vol. 2, A Study of British Genius |
Ford Madox Ford | ![]() | 17 December 1873 | 26 June 1939 | novelist, poet | The Good Soldier, Parade's End |
Sigmund Freud | ![]() | 6 May 1856 | 23 September 1939 | Neurologist and psychoanalyst | Introduction to Psychoanalysis, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Civilization and Its Discontents |
Ludwig Fulda | ![]() | 7 July 1862 | 7 March 1939 | novelist, playwright, poet | Der Seeräuber, Aladdin und die Wunderlampe |
Agnes Giberne | ![]() | 19 November 1845 | 20 August 1939 | children's writer, novelist, science writer | Sun, Moon and Stars: Astronomy for Beginners, Among the Stars, or wonderful things in the sky |
Zane Grey | ![]() | 31 January 1872 | 23 October 1939 | Western novelist | Riders of the Purple Sage, The Rainbow Trail |
Richard Halliburton | ![]() | 9 January 1900 | 24 March 1939 | travel writer | The Royal Road to Romance, The Glorious Adventure |
Robin Hyde | ![]() | 19 January 1906 | 23 August 1939 | novelist, poet | Passport to Hell, Check To Your King |
Vladislav Khodasevich | ![]() | 16 May 1886 | 14 June 1939 | poet, memoirist | Heavy Lyre, Necropolis, |
Volter Kilpi | ![]() | 12 December 1874 | 13 June 1939 | novelist | Alastalon salissa |
Alcina Leite Pindahíba (pt) | ![]() | 1854 | 1939 | Educator | Campesinas[3] |
Antonio Machado | ![]() | 26 July 1875 | 22 February 1939 | poet | Juan de Mairena |
Leonard Merrick | ![]() | 21 February 1864 | 7 August 1939 | novelist, short story writer, playwright | Mr Bazalgette's Agent, Conrad in Quest of His Youth |
Alphonse Mucha | ![]() ![]() | 24 July 1860 | 14 July 1939 | Painter, illustrator and graphic artist | The Slav Epic |
Kanoko Okamoto | ![]() | 1 March 1889 | 18 February 1939 | poet, short story writer | A Riot of Goldfish |
Llewelyn Powys | ![]() | 13 August 1884 | 2 December 1939 | essayist, novelist | A Pagan's Pilgrimage, Now That The Gods Are Dead |
Arthur Rackham | ![]() | 19 September 1867 | 6 September 1939 | book illustrator | illustrations for Rip Van Winkle, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels |
Maurice Renard | ![]() | 28 February 1875 | 18 November 1939 | Author | The Hands of Orlac and The Blue Peril |
Amanda McKittrick Ros | ![]() | 8 December 1860 | 2 February 1939 | novelist, poet | Irene Iddesleigh |
Joseph Roth | ![]() | 2 September 1894 | 27 May 1939 | novelist, essayist | The Wandering Jews, Radetzky March |
E. C. Segar | ![]() | 8 December 1894 | 13 October 1939 | cartoonist | Popeye, Thimble Theatre |
Caton Theodorian | ![]() | 14 May 1871 | 8 January 1939 | playwright, poet, short story writer and novelist | Bujoreștii ("The Bujorescus") |
S. S. Van Dine | ![]() | 15 October 1888 | 11 April 1939 | mystery writer | The Benson Murder Case, The Bishop Murder Case |
Amy Catherine Walton | ![]() | 9 August 1849 | 5 July 1939 | children's writer | A Peep Behind the Scenes |
W. B. Yeats | ![]() | 13 June 1865 | 28 January 1939 | poet, dramatist, prose writer | The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics |
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 |
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Manuel Altolaguirre | ![]() | 29 June 1905 | 26 July 1959 | poet, screenwriter | Las islas invitadas y otros poemas(The Invited Isle and Other Poems), El triunfo de las germanías (The Triumph of the Brotherhood of the Guilds) |
Maxwell Anderson | ![]() | 15 December 1888 | 28 February 1959 | playwright, poet | Both Your Houses, Joan of Lorraine |
Edwin Balmer | ![]() | 26 July 1883 | 21 March 1959 | Author | When Worlds Collide |
Johan Bojer | ![]() | 6 March 1872 | 3 July 1959 | novelist, playwright | Den siste viking (The Last of the Vikings), Vor egen stamme(The Emigrants) |
Arnolt Bronnen | ![]() | 19 August 1895 | 12 October 1959 | playwright | Parricide, Birth of Youth |
Emil František Burian | ![]() | 11 June 1904 | 9 August 1959 | poet, playwright | Member of Osvobozené divadlo |
Raymond Chandler | ![]() | 23 July 1888 | 26 March 1959 | detective fiction novelist, screenwriter | The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, ; The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye |
Laxmi Prasad Devkota | ![]() | 13 November 1909 | 14 September 1959 | poet, playwright, novelist | Muna Madan, Shakuntala |
Apsley Cherry-Garrard | ![]() | 2 January 1886 | 18 May 1959 | memoirist | The Worst Journey in the World |
G. D. H. Cole | ![]() | 25 September 1889 | 14 January 1959 | political theorist, economist, historian, short story writer | The Brooklyn Murders, The Death of a Millionaire |
W. W. Greg | ![]() | 9 July 1875 | 4 March 1959 | bibliographer, Shakespearean scholar | Dramatic Documents from the Elizabethan Playhouses, English Literary Autographs, 1550–1650 |
Otfrid von Hanstein | ![]() | 23 September 1869 | 17 February 1959 | Author | |
Laurence Housman | ![]() | 18 July 1865 | 20 February 1959 | novelist, playwright, illustrator | An Englishwoman's Love-letters, Victoria Regina |
Julien Josephson | ![]() | 24 October 1881 | 14 April 1959 | screenwriter | Lady Windermere's Fan, The Bat, Heidi, Wee Willie Winkie |
Alfred Kubin | ![]() | 10 April 1877 | 20 August 1959 | Author and illustrator | The Other Side |
Edwin Muir | ![]() | 15 May 1887 | 3 January 1959 | Poet, Novelist | The Present Age from 1914, The Scots and Their Country |
Luis Palés Matos | ![]() | 20 March 1898 | 23 February 1959 | Poet | El palacio en sombras (The Palace in Shadows), Falsa canción de baquiné (False Song of a funeral for a child) |
Benjamin Péret | ![]() | 4 July 1899 | 18 September 1959 | Poet | Le Passager du transatlantique, De derrière les fagots |
Sax Rohmer | ![]() | 15 February 1883 | 1 June 1959 | crime novelist, horror fiction writer | The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, Brood of the Witch-Queen |
Alfred Schütz | ![]() | 13 April 1899 | 20 May 1959 | philosopher, social phenomenologist | William James' Concept of the Stream of Consciousness Phenomenologically Interpreted, The Stranger |
Pauline Smith | ![]() | 2 April 1882 | 29 January 1959 | novelist, short story writer, memoirist, playwright | The Little Karoo, The Beadle |
Galaktion Tabidze | ![]() | 17 November 1892 | 17 March 1959 | poet | The Wind Blows |
José Vasconcelos | ![]() | 28 February 1882 | 30 June 1959 | philosopher | La raza cósmica (The Cosmic Race) |
Boris Vian | ![]() | 10 March 1920 | 23 June 1959 | novelist | I Spit on Your Graves, Froth on the Daydream |
Percy F. Westerman | ![]() | 1876 | 22 February 1959 | children's writer | King of Kilba |
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.[4][5] If the work is owned by a corporation, then the copyright extends 95 years.[6]
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.[7]
See also
- 1939 in literature and 1959 in literature for deaths of writers
- Public Domain Day
- Creative Commons
References
- ^ "EU Extends Copyright Term To 70 Years | Billboard". Billboard.biz. 2011-09-12. Archived from the original on 2013-01-06. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
- ^ Directive 2006/116/EC
- ^ "Alcina Leite Pindahíba". Retrieved 2021-03-23.
- ^ "What Could Have Entered the Public Domain | Duke University School of Law".
- ^ "S.505 - One Hundred Fifth Congress of the United States of America at the Second Session. An act to amend the provisions of title 17, United States Code, with respect to the duration of copyright, and for other purposes" (PDF). U.S. Copyright Office.
- ^ "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States | Copyright Information Center".
- ^ "United States Copyright Law". Archived from the original on 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2012-06-02.
External links
- Which works fall into the public domain in 2010?
- Public Domain Day 2010: A roundup
- Public Domain Day: January 1, 2010
- What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2010? Under the law that existed until 1978 . . . Works from 1953
- Nothing to celebrate on Public Domain Day 2010 in the US
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