2029 in public domain

When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works is not uniform. The following lists include creators whose works enter the public domain in 2029 under the most common copyright regimes.

Entering the public domain in countries with life + 70 years

See also: Creators whose works entered the public domain in countries with life + 50 years in 2009

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. 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
H. G. Peter	United States	8 March 1880	2 January 1958	Cartoonist	Wonder Woman
Ralph Vaughan Williams	United Kingdom	12 October 1872	26 August 1958	Composer	A London Symphony

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
William Middleton	United Kingdom	15 December 1891	12 August 1978	Illustrator	The Railway Series
Jack L. Warner	United States	2 August 1892	9 September 1978	Filmmaker

Countries with life + 80 years

See also: Works that entered the public domain in countries with life + 70 years in 2019

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

Trailer from an unknown year for a re-issue of King Kong. The story and characters of King Kong were public domain even before the film's release due to classification errors on certain pre-emptive tie-in material.

See also: Public domain in the United States

Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1933, films released in 1933, and other works published in 1933, will enter the public domain in 2029. Sound recordings that were published in 1928 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1958 will also enter the public domain.

Notable films entering the public domain in 2029 include the original King Kong and its sequel Son of Kong, Lloyd Bacon's musical films 42nd Street and Footlight Parade, Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The Invisible Man, Best Picture Academy Award-winner Cavalcade, Alfred E. Green's Baby Face with Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent, George Cukor's adaptation of Little Women with Kathrine Hepburn, the Marx Brothers musical comedy Duck Soup, Ecstasy with Heddy Lamarr in her acting debute, Mervyn LeRoy's Tugboat Annie and Gold Diggers of 1933 (the latter of which he co-directed with Busby Berkeley), the Mae West films She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel, Frank Tuttle's Roman Scandals, Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (the first British film to win an Oscar), Lowell Sherman's Morning Glory, the original State Fair (which inspired the more famous 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical film), William J. Cowen's Oliver Twist, Cukor's Dinner at Eight, Frank Capra's Lady for a Day, Raoul Walsh's Going Hollywood with Marion Davies and Bing Crosby, Jean Vigo's Zero for Conduct, Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs and the first animated Popeye cartoons.

Literary works entering the public domain include James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon introducing Shangri-La, Dashiell Hammett's novel The Thin Man introducing Nick and Nora Charles, George Orwell's first novel Down and Out in Paris and London, Virginia Woolf's novel Flush: A Biography, Raymond Chandler's short story Blackmailers Don't Shoot and Dorothy Wall's children's novel Blinky Bill.

Artworks entering the public domain include Diego Rivera's destroyed mural Man at the Crossroads and his Detroit Industry Murals, René Magritte's painting The Human Condition, and Henri Cartier-Bresson's photograph Seville, Spain.

See also

• List of American films of 1933
• 1958 in literature and 1978 in literature for deaths of writers
• Public Domain Day
• Creative Commons
• 2030 in public domain

External links

• Popular Books of 1933 at Goodreads