2028 in 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 2028. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works is not uniform.

Entering the public domain in 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 1988), 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 For previously unpublished material, those who publish it first will have the publication rights for 25 years. In addition, several other countries in the world have a limit of 70 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
André Chevrillon	France	3 May 1864	9 July 1957	Writer	Publications
Alfred Döblin	Germany	10 August 1878	26 June 1957	Writer	Berlin Alexanderplatz
Jérôme Doucet	France	5 March 1865	1 February 1957	Writer	Works
Virgilio Giotti	Italy	15 January 1885	21 September 1957	Poet	Works
Heinrich Hoffman	Germany	12 September 1885	16 December 1957	Photographer
Léon Homo	France	16 December 1872	16 August 1957	Historian	Works
Nikos Kazantzakis	Greece	2 March 1883	26 October 1957	Writer	Ασκητική. Salvatores dei, Captain Michalis, The Last Temptation of Christ, Zorba the Greek
František Kupka	Czech Republic	23 September 1871	24 June 1957	Painter	The Cathedral (Katedrála)
Josef Lada	Czech Republic	17 December 1887	14 December 1957	Painter, illustrator and writer	Kater Mikesch, illustrations for The Good Soldier Švejk
Curzio Malaparte	Italy	9 June 1898	19 July 1957	Writer	Main writings
Diego Riviera	Mexico	8 December 1886	24 November 1957	Painter	Man at the Crossroads
José Lins do Rego	Brazil	3 July 1901	12 September 1957	Writer	Novels
Umberto Saba	Italy	9 March 1883	26 August 1957	Novelist	Works
Gaetano Salvemini	Italy	8 September 1873	6 September 1957	Politician	Works
Jean Sibelius	Finland	8 December 1865	20 September 1957	Composer	List of compositions by Jean Sibelius
Laura Ingalls Wilder	United States	7 February 1867	10 February 1957	Writer	Little House on the Prairie
John von Neumann	Hungary United States	28 December 1903	8 February 1957	Mathematician, physicist, computer scientist	List of scientific publications by John von Neumann

Countries with life + 60 years

In Bangladesh, India, and Venezuela a work enters the public domain 60 years after the creator's death.

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
Margaret Escott	New Zealand	9 July 1908	15 August 1977	Author	Show Down
Edmond Hamilton	United States	21 October 1904	1 February 1977	Author	Captain Future
H. H. Hollis	United States	7 October 1921	1977	SF Author	"The Guerrilla Trees"
Vladimir Nabokov	Russia	22 April 1899	2 July 1977	Author	Lolita
Anaïs Nin	France	21 February 1903	14 January 1977	Author	Delta of Venus
Elvis Presley	United States	8 January 1935	16 August 1977	Musician	Jailhouse Rock
H. A. Rey	Germany	16 September 1898	26 August 1977	Author	Curious George
Dennis Wheatley	United Kingdom	8 January 1897	10 November 1977	Author	The Devil Rides Out

Countries with life + 80 years

Spain has a copyright term of life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988. In Colombia and Equatorial Guinea a work enters the public domain 80 years after the creator's death.

United States

See also: Public domain in the United States

Creative Commons-licensed fan art of Conan the Barbarian, a character who has long been subject of copyright disputes and ambiguity, and will definitively enter the public domain in 2028.

Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1932, films released in 1932, and other works published in 1932, will enter the public domain in 2028. Sound recordings that were published in 1927 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1957 will also enter the public domain.

Among the films that will enter the public domain in 2028 are the original Scarface, The Mummy with Boris Karloff, Tarzan the Ape Man with Johnny Weissmuller, Best Picture Academy Award-winner Grand Hotel, Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express with Marlene Dietrich, Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise, The Music Box starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Katharine Hepburn's film debut A Bill of Divorcement, Shirley Temple's film debut The Red-Haired Alibi, the earliest Looney Tunes short films that were still under copyright when the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992 was implemented, Horse Feathers with the Marx Brothers, Tod Browning's Freaks, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr, Jean Renoir's Boudu Saved from Drowning, Yasujirō Ozu's I Was Born, But..., the first Mexican sound film Santa, the oldest surviving Marathi language sound film Ayodhyecha Raja, Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees (the first cartoon produced in Technicolor), and Mickey's Revue with the first appearance of Dippy Dawg, the character who would later become Goofy.

Examples of important literary works entering the public domain include Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, William Faulkner's Light in August, Samuel Becket's Dream of Fair to Middling Women, Guy Endore's The Werewolf of Paris, Graham Greene's Stamboul Train, Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, Zelda Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz, John Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot detective novel Peril at End House, John Dos Passos's Nineteen Nineteen, Robert E. Howard's first Conan the Barbarian short story The Phoenix on the Sword, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods, Herge's Tintin in America in its original French unedited black-and-white version, the first appearances of villain Bluto in E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre, and W. E. Johns’ first Biggles-collection The Camels Are Coming.

Important artworks entering the public domain include Pablo Picasso's Nude in a Black Armchair and Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, Oskar Schlemmer's painting Bauhaus Stairway, Otto Dix's triptych The War, Henri Matisse's mural The Dance II, David Alfaro Siqueiros' fresco América Tropical, Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals, Alberto Giacometti's sculpture The Palace at 4 a.m., Man Ray's photograph Larmes and some of the earliest professional photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson including Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare and Hyères, France.

See also

• 1957 in literature and 1977 in literature for deaths of writers
• Public Domain Day
• Creative Commons
• 2029 in public domain

External links

• Popular Books of 1932 at Goodreads