When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of works that entered the public domain in 2007. 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 (Life + 50 years) and Spain (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.Directive 2006/116/EC The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator that entered the public domain on January 1, 2007.

Names Country Birth Death Occupation Notable work James Churchward occult writer. The Lost Continent of Mu, the Motherland of Men, The Children of Mu Ramón del Valle-Inclán dramatist, novelist. El marqués de Bradomín. Coloquios románticos (The Marquis of Bradomin. Romantic meetings), Bohemian Lights Mateiu Caragiale novelist, poet. Craii de Curtea-Veche (Rakes of the Old Court), Remember Rudyard Kipling novelist, poet, short-story writer. The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book Elizabeth Robins Pennell art critic, biographer, memoirist, travel writer. Nights: Rome & Venice in the Aesthetic Eighties, London & Paris in the Fighting Nineties Rahel Sanzara novelist. Das verlorene Kind (The Lost Child), Die glückliche Hand Lidia Veselitskaya novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, translator. Mimi's Marriage, Mimi at the Springs, Mimi Poisons Herself Mikhail Kuzmin musician, novelist, poet. Wings, Alexandrian Songs A. de Herz playwright, poet, short-story writer. Păianjenul (The Spider), Noaptea Învierii (Resurrection Night) Marguerite Durand journalist, pamphlet writer. founder of the newspaper La Fronde (The Sling) A. E. Housman classical scholar, poet. A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems Robert E. Howard sword and sorcery writer. The Hour of the Dragon, Worms of the Earth M. R. James ghost story writer, medievalist, antiquarian. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Karl Kraus essayist, playwright, poet, satirist. Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (The Last Days of Mankind), Literatur oder man wird doch da sehn (Literature, or You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet) G. K. Chesterton mystery writer, philosopher, lay theologian, apologist. The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Man Who Was Thursday Maxim Gorky novelist, playwright, poet, short-story writer. The Life of Klim Samgin, The Artamonov Business Donald Maxwell travel writer, illustrator. regular illustrator for the newspapers The Graphic and Church Times F. J. Harvey Darton literary historian, novelist, publisher. The Story of English Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life, Alibi Pilgrimage Mourning Dove Western novelist, folklore writer. Cogewea, Coyote Stories Grazia Deledda novelist. After the Divorce, Canne al vento (Reeds in the wind) Federico García Lorca playwright, poet. The Butterfly's Evil Spell, The Billy-Club Puppets Juliette Adam novelist, memoirist. Mes premières armes littéraires et politiques, Mes sentiments et nos idées avant 1870 J. Slauerhoff novelist, poet. Het verboden rijk (The forbidden kingdom), Oost-Azië (East Asia) Stefan Grabiński horror writer. Z Wyjątków. W Pomrokach Wiary (Exceptions: In the Dark of Faith), Na Wzgórzu Róż (On the Hill of Roses) Luigi Pirandello dramatist, novelist, poet, short-story writer. The Late Mattia Pascal, Six Characters in Search of an Author Frances Garnet Wolseley, 2nd Viscountess Wolseley gardening writer. Gardening for Women, Women on the Land Kristína Royová novelist, poet. Bez Boha na svete (Without God in the world), Bludári (Heretics) John Cornford poet. Full Moon At Tierz Miguel de Unamuno classics scholar, novelist, playwright, philosopher. Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion, Mist

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.

NamesCountryBirthDeathOccupationNotable work Wickham Steed historian, journalist. Hitler Whence and Whither?, The Meaning of Hitlerism Sheila Kaye-Smith novelist. Joanna Godden, The End of the House of Alard H. L. Mencken cultural critic, essayist, satirist. The American Language, The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche A. A. Milne novelist, playwright, poet. Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner Edmund Clerihew Bentley humorist, mystery novelist, poet. Trent's Last Case, Trent's Own Case Arthur Talmage Abernethy poet, theologian. The Hell You Say!: A Novel, The Jew a Negro; Being a Study of the Jewish Ancestry from an Impartial Standpoint Max Beerbohm caricaturist, humorist, novelist, parodist. Zuleika Dobson, The Happy Hypocrite Ion Călugăru novelist, short-story writer. Copilăria unui netrebnic (The Childhood of a Ne'er-do-well), Oțel și pîine (Steel and Bread) Walter de la Mare children's writer, horror writer. Memoirs of a Midget, Collected Stories for Children Nicos Nicolaides dramatist, short-story writer, painter. To Stravoxylo (The Peevish Fellow), O Skelethras Diegimata B (The Skeleton Short Stories'. Book 2) Gottfried Benn essayist, poet. Morgue und andere Gedichte (Morgue and other Poems), Doppelleben (Double Life) Giovanni Papini novelist, short-story writer, philosopher. Gog, Il crepuscolo dei filosofi (The Twilight of the Philosophers) Jackson Pollock Painter Bertolt Brecht playwright, poet. The Threepenny Opera, The Flight Across the Ocean Michael Ventris classics scholar, philologist. Documents in Mycenaean Greek, Introducing the Minoan Language A. L. Zissu dramatist, essayist, novelist, polemicist. Nu există cult mozaic (No Such Thing as a Mosaic Religion), Calea Calvarului (The Path of Calvary) Hans Carossa novelist, poet. Stella Mystica, Ungleiche Welten (Unequal Worlds) Pío Baroja novelist. The Tree of Knowledge, Memorias de un Hombre de Acción (Memories of a Man of Action) B. R. Ambedkar economist, political writer, journal writer. Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development, The Buddha and His Dhamma Arthur Grimble travel writer, memoirist. A Pattern of Islands, Return to the Islands Robert Walser novelist, poet, short-story writer. Jakob von Gunten, The Assistant

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. If the work is owned by a corporation, then the copyright extends 95 years.

Due to the passing of the Copyright Term Extension Act (Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act) in 1998, works never registered or published before January 1, 1978, and whose authors died before 1937 entered the public domain in this jurisdiction on January 1, 2007. Other works would not enter the public domain here until 2019.

See also 1906 in literature and 1956 in literature for deaths of writers Public Domain Day Creative Commons

References

External links Winnie the Pooh, the Public Domain and Winnie’s Canadian Connection