When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of works that entered the public domain in 2001. 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, 2001.
Names Country Birth Death Occupation Notable work Iso Mutsu historian, travel writer Kamakura: Fact and Legend Edward Bok magazine editor, non-fiction writer Why I Believe in Poverty, The Americanization of Edward Bok, A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After, A Man from Maine Johannes Gillhoff teacher, researcher of the expressions and speech patterns of Low German, novelist Mecklenburgischen Volksrätseln (Mecklenburg folk riddles), Jürnjakob Swehn der Amerikafahrer (Jürnjakob Swehn, the Traveler to America), Mecklenburgischen Monatshefte (Mecklenburg monthly notes) Rebecca Latimer Felton white supremacist politician, activist for prison reform, women's suffrage and education reform, My Memoirs of Georgia Politics, Country Life in Georgia in the Days of my Youth, The Romantic Story of Georgia's Women Alice Williams Brotherton poet, essayist, children's writer, literary scholar, specialist on the works of William Shakespeare Beyond the veil, What the wind told to the tree-tops, The sailing of King Olaf : and other poems, The real Hamlet and the Hamlet oldest of all, Debasing the Poetic Coinage the Quality and Function of Poetry George Haven Putnam publisher, president of the publishing company G. P. Putnam's Sons, activist for copyright protection for authors, memoirist, children's writer Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages, Censorship of the Church of Rome and Its Influence Upon the Production and Distribution of Literature, A Prisoner of War in Virginia, Memories of a Publisher, Some Memories of the Civil War, The Little Gingerbread Man Joseph Wright Germanic philologist, university professor, lexicographer The English Dialect Dictionary, An Old High-German Primer, A Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill in the West Riding of Yorkshire: Illustrated by a Series of Dialect Specimens, Phonetically Rendered; with a Glossarial Index of the Words Used in the Grammar and Specimens, A Primer of the Gothic Language, The English Dialect Grammar, comprising the dialects of England, of the Shetland and Orkney islands, and of those parts of Scotland, Ireland & Wales where English is habitually spoken, Comparative Grammar of the Greek Language C. K. Scott Moncrieff short story writer, satirist, translator, literary critic Evensong and Morwe Song, The Strange and Striking Adventure of Four Authors in Search of a Character, 1926 D. H. Lawrence novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow , Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover Alois Jirásek history teacher, historical novelist, playwright Ancient Bohemian Legends, Mezi proudy (Between the Currents), Proti všem, The Philosophers' Story or Psohlavci Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman short story writer, novelist, ghost story writer A New England Nun, Pembroke, Collected Ghost Stories, co-writer of The Whole Family Alfred Williams poet, prose writer, collector of folk song lyrics Life in a Railway Factory, Songs in Wiltshire Sigurd Ibsen politician, Prime Minister of Norway in Stockholm, lawyer, political writer Unionen, founder of the magazine Ringeren Vladimir Mayakovsky poet, playwright, poster artist, manifesto co-writer for Russian Futurism A Cloud in Trousers, Backbone Flute, The Bedbug, The Bathhouse John B. Sheridan sports journalist, whistleblower regular writer of the sports column Back of Home Plate Robert Bridges poet, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, playwright, hymn writer, literary critic, World War I propagandist for the War Propaganda Bureau Milton's Prosody, Humdrum and Harum-Scarum, Eros and Psyche, The Feast of Bacchus, Achilles in Scyros, The Return of Ulysses, Demeter: A Mask, Prometheus the Firegiver: A Mask in the Greek Manner Jeppe Aakjær novelist, playwright, poet, member of the Jutland Movement Bondens Søn (The Peasant's Son), Vredens børn, et tyendes saga (Children of Wrath: A Hired Man's Saga),Arbejdets Glæde (The Joy of Work), Jens Langkniv, Rugens sange (Songs of the Rye), Heimdal's Wanderings Maria Polydouri poet, representative of Neo-romanticism, diarist, theatrical actress, dressmaker The Pain of the Mother, The Chirps that faint, Echo over chaos William John Locke short story writer, novelist, playwright The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, The Beloved Vagabond, The Glory of Clementina Wing, The Adventure of the Fickle Goddess Florence Bell playwright A Collection of Plays and Monologues for the Drawing Room, At the Works: Study of a Manufacturing Town, Middlesbrough, The Heart of Yorkshire, The Letters of Gertrude Bell Vol 1 and 2, Petit theâtre des enfants: twelve tiny french plays for children Herbert Croly political philosopher, intellectual leader of the progressive movement, biographer The Promise of American Life, Progressive Democracy, Marcus Alonso Hanna: His Life and Work, The Effect on American Institutions of a Powerful Military and Naval Establishment Arthur St John Adcock novelist, poet, journalist, magazine editor, one of the "Cockney school novelists" who imitated Charles Dickens East End Idylls, An unfinished martyrdom and other stories, In The Wake of the War, Songs of the War, The Luck of Private Foster: A Romance of Love and War, The World that Never Was. A London Fantasy, Australasia Triumphant! With the Australians and New Zealanders in the Great War on Land And Sea, For Remembrance. Soldier Poets who have Fallen in the War. With nineteen portraits Herbert Warren academic, college president, college rugby football player, poet By Severn Sea and Other Poems, The Death of Virgil Israel Gollancz literary scholar, specialist on the works of William Shakespeare, college professor, translator co-founder of the British Academy and director of the Early English Text Society, editor of the "Temple" Shakespeare collection of Shakespeare's works and of the anthology A Book of Homage to Shakespeare, article writer for the Dictionary of National Biography Arthur Conan Doyle writer in the fields of crime fiction, detective fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction A Study in Scarlet, Micah Clarke, The Mystery of Cloomber, The Sign of the Four, The White Company, The Great Shadow,The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Lost World, The Land of Mist Pavlos Karolidis c. historian, politician Kappadokika, a historical and archaeological dissertation on Cappadocia, History of the 19th Century, Universal or World History, The Ethnic Ancestry of the Orthodox Christians of Syria and Palestine, Contemporary History Lucien Wolf historian, diplomat, journalist The Russian Conspiracy or Russian Monopoly in Opposition to Britain Interest in the East, Menasseh ben Israel’s Mission to Oliver Cromwell, The Myth of the Jewish Menace in World Affairs: The Truth about the Forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The Queen's Jewry 1837–1897 William Archibald Spooner cleric, university don, lecturer on ancient history, divinity and philosophy, specialist on the works of Aristotle The Moral Philosophy Of Aristotle, Bishop Butler Thomas Nicoll Hepburn novelist, biographer, poet, representative of the literary movement Kailyard school The Child World, Barncraig: Episodes in the Life of a Scottish Village, Sunshine and Haar: Some Further Glimpses of Life at Barncraig, Robert Burns, The Skipper of Barncraig Vladimir Arsenyev explorer of the Far East, travel writer, memoirist Po Ussuriyskomu krayu (Along the Ussuri land), Dersu Uzala, Skvoz taygu (Through the taiga) Georges de Porto-Riche dramatist, novelist, comedy writer Le Vertige, Les Deux Fautes, La Chance de Françoise, L'Infidèle, Amoureuse, Le Passé, Les Malefilâtre Karam Singh historian, poster artist, diarist Banda Bahadur, Katak Ki Visakh, Jeevan Harnaam Kaur, Maharaja Ala Singh Arthur Way classical scholar, translator Homer, Greek through English, Sons of the Violet-Crowned, a Tale of Ancient Athens Olena Pchilka publisher, ethnographer, translator, collector of folk songs, newspaper editor Ukrainian Folk Ornament, To Ukrainian Children, Thoughts of a Net, Tovaryshky Roy Horniman playwright, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, animal welfare and free speech activist Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal, The Sin of Atlantis, The Living Buddha, A Nonconformist Parson, Lord Cammarleigh's Secret: A Fairy Story of To-Day James Surtees Phillpotts educational writer, classics scholar Stories from Herodotus in Attic Greek, King and Commonwealth: A History of Charles I and the Great Rebellion, Shakespeare's Tempest, Homer without a Lexicon for Beginners, Selections Adapted from Xenophon William B. Hanna sports journalist sports columns for various newspapers based in New York City, received posthumous recognition by the New York Baseball Writers Association Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune missionary, linguist, newspaper publisherPractical Chinook vocabulary, Prayers in the Okanagan language, Polyglott manual of prayers, Chinook rudiments Florbela Espanca poetO livro D'ele (His book), Livro de Mágoas (The Book of Sorrows), Livro de Soror Saudade (Sister Saudade's Book), Charneca em Flor (Heath in Bloom) Neil Munro historical novelist, short story writer, journalist, newspaper editor, literary critic The New Road, John Splendid, Doom Castle, The Daft Days Marion Manville Pope children's writer, poet Over the divide and other verses, Up the matterhorn in a boat, Between two gods : [an allegory],
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.