When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform. The following is a list of creators whose works enter the public domain in 2032 under the most common copyright regimes, assuming no further extensions to copyright terms become law in the interim.
Countries with life + 70 years
Except for 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 have a limit of 70 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator.
NamesCountryDeathOccupationNotable work Zakariyya Ahmad MusicianAna Fi Intizarak Fani Badayuni Poet Chandradhar Barua Poet, novelist Charu Chandra Bhattacharya Scientific writer Roussan Camille Poet, journalist Assaut à la Nuit Joanna Cannan Writer, detective novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline Novelist, pamphleteer Death on Credit, Castle to Castle Blaise Cendrars Novelist, poet Moravagine Bhupendranath Datta Poet, novelist Hilda Doolittle Poet, novelist, memoirist Mazo de la Roche Novelist Jalna novel series Gertrude Minnie Faulding Children's writer and novelist Jessie Redmon Fauset Editor, writer, educator Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral Olga Forsh Dramatist, novelist, memoirist Leonhard Frank Writer Dashiell Hammett Crime writer, screenwriter Various detective novels and short stories Hazel Heald Pulp fiction writer Ernest Hemingway Novelist The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, and other books Carl Jung Psychiatrist Over 20 publications relating to analytical and other psychology George S. Kaufman Dramatist, critic Of Thee I Sing, You Can't Take It with You Patrick MacDonogh 1961 Poet Over the Water Oliver Onions Novelist, ghost story writer Widdershins Professor Nalam Krishna Rao 1961 Magazine editor E. Arnot Robertson Novelist Mihail Sadoveanu Novelist Peyami Safa Journalist, writer Saralabala Sarkar Novelist R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz Egyptologist, mystic The Temple In Man, Esoterism and Symbol Sachin Sengupta Playwright R. P. Sethu Pillai Lawyer, professor Nalin Vilochan Sharma Professor Clark Ashton Smith Writer Clark Ashton Smith bibliography Vattikota Alwar Swamy Human rights activist, journalist Jailu Lopala Rathindranath Tagore Agronomist Dorothy Thompson Journalist James Thurber Humorist Suryakant Tripathi Poet, short story writer Hindi translation of Anandmath William Troy Writer, educator Bayram al-Tunisi PoetAna Fi Intizarak
Countries with life + 60 years
In Bangladesh, India, and Venezuela a work enters the public domain 60 years after the creator's death.
NamesCountryDeathOccupationNotable work Kate Aitken Broadcaster Books Ya'qoub Al-Oudat Poet, writer Biography of Mustafa Wahbi et-TullJohn Beaglehole 10 October 1971HistorianThe Life of Captain James CookJames Boswell 15 April 1971ArtistThe Artist's DilemmaJohn W. CampbellAuthor and editorWho Goes There? Brock Chisholm Psychiatrist WorksAugust Derleth Writer August Derleth bibliography Abd El-Razzak El-Sanhuri Legal scholar Al-Waseet fil Qanun Composer Helmy Halim Film director Our Beautiful Days Samuel Alfred Haynes 1971 Civil rights activist, poet Land of the Free Usmar Ismail Film director Darah dan Doa Ub Iwerks Cartoonist, film producer Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey Mouse, Flip the Frog Abdul Jabbar Jomard Historian, Poet Paul Lévy Mathematician Calcul des ProbabilitésC. C. MacAppSF author"The Mercurymen"Reginald Alec MartinChildren's writerKemloR. A. K. Mason 13 July 1971PoetWorks Janka Maŭr Children's writer, translatorGhulam Rasool Mehr Scholar Books Jim Morrison Musician, Poet The Doors discography Ogden Nash Poet Bibliography of Ogden Nash Andre Ryder Musician 1971 Poet Stevie Smith Poet, writer Works Igor Stravinsky Composer List of compositions by Igor Stravinsky Frank Underhill Historian Upper Canadian Politics in the 1850s Philip Wylie AuthorGladiator
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.
NamesCountryDeathOccupationNotable work Nelson Algren Novelist The Man with the Golden Arm Enid Bagnold Writer National Velvet Gwendolyn B. Bennett Writer, artist "To a Dark Girl" Carol Ryrie Brink Writer Caddie Woodlawn Christy Brown Writer, painter My Left Foot Pedro García Cabrera Poet Mary Coyle Chase Playwright Harvey A. J. Cronin Novelist The Citadel Bosley Crowther Film critic Lanza del Vasto Philosopher, poet, activist Robert Garioch Poet David Garnett Novelist Digby George Gerahty Novelist Elephant Walk Uri Zvi Grinberg Poet Cynthia Harnett Children's book writer The Wool-Pack, The Load of Unicorn Rayner Heppenstall Writer Pamela Hansford Johnson Poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic D. F. Jones Science fiction writer Colossus Charles Eric Maine Science fiction writer Bob Marley Musician Discography Eugenio Montale Poet Mounir Mourad MusicianQadi al-Belaj John Pascal Playwright, screenwriter, author, journalist Eleanor Perry Writer Josep Pla Journalist, writer Life Embitters Normand Poirier Newspaper editor, journalist, essayist Ahmed Rami PoetRubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Lobsang Rampa Writer The Third Eye Amber Reeves , Scholar, feminist, novelist Denys Rhodes Novelist The Syndicate Clive Sansom Poet, playwright The Witnesses, The Golden Unicorn William Saroyan Novelist, dramatist Bibliography Zerna Sharp Writer, educator Dick and Jane Nan Shepard Novelist, poet The Living Mountain Riad Al Sunbati MusicianRubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Al-Atlal C. P. Taylor Playwright Gwyn Thomas Novelist, broadcaster Philip Toynbee Novelist, journalist Pantaloon Alec Waugh Novelist
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.