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.Directive 2006/116/EC

Names Country Birth Death Occupation Notable workAchmed Abdullah Pulp writer and screenwriter Nikola Avramov Still life paintings Milena Pavlović-Barili Painter, poetMaurice Baring WriterBéla Bartók Composer Concerto for OrchestraRobert Benchley Humorist newspaper and magazine columnsHenry Bellamann WriterKings RowUrsula Bethell Poet Collected poetryVilhelms Bokslafs Architect Most notable buildings are Jaunmokas Manor near Tukums and Commercial school in Riga (now Art Academy of Latvia)Nicola Bombacci Marxist-Fascist journalistIl mio pensiero sul bolscevismo (1941), I contadini nella Russia di Stalin (1942), I contadini nell'Italia di Mussolini (1943)Dietrich Bonhoeffer TheologianRobert Brasillach Writer Je suis partoutMiles J. Breuer Writer "The Gostak and the Doshes" (1930) and other science fiction stories Fritz Brupbacher Writer Der Sinn des Lebens Thomas Burke Writer Limehouse NightsAlexander Stirling Calder Sculptor George Washington as PresidentDavid Young Cameron Artist Franklin Carmichael Artist Anica Černej Author, poet Benjamin De Casseres Journalist, poet The Shadow-EaterMargaret Deland Writer John Ward, PreacherMário de Andrade Writer MacunaímaRobert Desnos Poet Maurice Donnay Dramatist Lord Alfred Douglas Writer Two LovesTheodore Dreiser Writer, journalist Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy E. R. Eddison Writer The Worm Ouroboros Gus Edwards Songwriter "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "In My Merry Oldsmobile"Eleanor Fortescue-Brigdale1871ArtistThe Uninvited Guest, Riches Anne Frank Diarist The Diary of a Young GirlØvre Richter Frich Writer, journalist Zinaida Gippius Writer, poet Adolf Hitler Politician, Dictator of Nazi Germany Mein Kampf, Zweites BuchSuphi Nuri İleri 1887 1945 Writer Ljubomir Ivanović Printmaker, draughtsman Malcolm Jameson Writer Writer for American pulp magazines during the Golden Age of Science FictionJoseph Jastrow Psychologist Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski Writer, journalist Osman Cemal Kaygılı Writer Carl Wilhelm Kern Composer Käthe Kollwitz Artist The Prisoners Julius Korngold Music critic Writer René Lalique Glass designer Else Lasker-Schüler Writer poetry and plays James Leatham Writer, printer, publisherJonas Lie Writer, minister David Lindsay Writer A Voyage to Arcturus Eoin MacNeill Writer Phases of Irish History Tobias Matthay Teacher, pianist, composer writings on piano playing 1872 1945 Painter Régis Messac 1945 Writer, poet, translator James V. Monaco Songwriter "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)"Arthur Morrison Writer A Child of the Jago Benito Mussolini Politician My AutobiographyMoritz Nähr Photographer Alla Nazimova Writer, actor Writer When I was young Otto Neurath Writer Anti-Spengler Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Sculptor Equestrian Statue of King Christian IX, CopenhagenCharles Gilman Norris Writer, playwright Salt (1919)George S. Patton General War As I Knew it Songwriter Calel Perechodnik Diarist Ion Pillat Poet Pe Argeș în sus, Poeme într-un versKarel Poláček Writer Vilhelms Purvītis Landscape painter and educator Ernö Rapée Composer silent film music Edward Prosser Rhys Writer Cerddi Prosser RhysAlbert Richards Artist Artwork produced during the Second World War about the British war effortAlexander Roda Roda Writer Hando Ruus Military captain, artist Felix Salten Writer Bambi. Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde Alexander Siloti Pianist, composer Kārlis Skalbe Writer, poet, and activist Architect Antal Szerb Writer The Pendragon LegendOng Schan Tchow Artist Book of ChrysanthemumsNikolai Tcherepnin Composer Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy Writer Aelita, The Garin Death Ray, The Road to Calvary Poet Song of songs, Regina Mortua, Hymns and BalladsHalid Ziya Uşaklıgil 1866 Writer Anton Webern Composer Franz Werfel Writer The Song of BernadetteCharles Williams Writer Descent into Hell John R. Commons Economist Institutional Economics August Lösch Economist Die räumliche Ordnung der Wirtschaft David Lloyd George Politician The Truth About The Peace Treaty, War MemoirsJoseph Goebbels PoliticianGoebbels 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. Only unpublished and unregistered works whose authors died in 1945 enter the public domain.

On January 16, 2016, a judge decided that a selfie picture taken by a monkey automatically falls in 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 List of countries' copyright lengths Public Domain Day Creative Commons Public Domain Over 300 public domain authors available in Wikisource (any language), with descriptions from Wikidata 1945 in literature, 1955 in literature, 1965 in literature and 1975 in literature

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