When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of works that entered the public domain in 2000. 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, 2000.
Names Country Birth Death Occupation Notable work Anna Bowman Dodd novelist, dystopian fiction writer, short story writer, travel writer, political writer The Republic of the Future, Falaise : the town of the conqueror, In and out of three Normandy inns, The new woman in Turkey : how ancient rights and modern dress protect and improve the lot of Turkish women, Talleyrand : the training of a statesman, 1754-1838 Leonard Cline c. novelist, horror fiction writer, poet, short story writer, journalist, and translator The Dark Chamber, God Head, Listen, Moon!, The Lady of Frozen Death and Other Weird Tales Hans Prutz historian, medievalist Kaiser Friedrich I., Quellenbeiträge zur Geschichte der Kreuzzüge, Kulturgeschichte der Kreuzzüge, Staatengeschichte des Abendlandes Im Mittelalter, Entwickelung und Untergang des Tempelherrenordens Charlotte Carmichael Stopes Shakespearean scholar, women's rights activist British Freewomen: Their Historical Privilege, The Bacon/Shakespeare Question, Shakespeare's Family, Shakespeare's Warwickshire Contemporaries, Burbage and Shakespeare's Stage, The Sphere of 'Man' in Relation to that of 'Woman' in the Constitution, The Life of Henry, Third Earl of Southampton Auguste Groner writer of detective fiction, juvenile fiction, and historical fiction The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow, The Golden Bullet, How I Was Murdered, Why she extinguished the light, The Pharaoh's Bracelet, The Secret of the Hermitage Grace Rhys novelist, historical fiction writer, essayist Mary Dominic, The Charming of Estercel, The Wooing of Sheila, Five Beads on a String Katharine Lee Bates social reformer, poet, lyricist, textbook writer, diarist America the Beautiful, Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride, Yellow Clover: A Book of Remembrance, The English Religious Drama, The Story of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims, An Autobiography, in Brief, of Katharine Lee Bates Santeri Nuorteva journalist, magazine editor, politician claimed writer of the forged Sisson Documents, English translator of Letter to American Workers by Vladimir Lenin, editor of the daily newspaper Toveri(The Comrade) and the monthly magazine Säkeniä (The Spark) Flora Annie Steel novelist, short story writer, education reformer, popular historian On the Face of the Waters, The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook, English Fairy Tales, From the Five Rivers, Tales of the Punjab, India through the ages; a popular and picturesque history of Hindustan, Mistress of Men John Morris-Jones grammarian, academic, poet, and translator Welsh Orthography, A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative: phonology and accidence, editor of the manuscript collection The Elucidarium and other tracts in Welsh from Llyvyr agkyr Llandewivrevi A.D. 1346 Lucy Clifford novelist, horror fiction writer, playwright and journalist The New Mother, Mrs. Keith's Crime, Love Letters of a Worldly Woman, A Flash of Summer: The Story of a Simple Woman's Life, A Long Duel: A Serious Comedy, A Woman Alone Mary E. Mann novelist, short story writer, playwright Tales of Dulditch, The Patten Experiment, Little Brother, The Victim, Confessions of a Coward and Coquette. Being the record of a short period of her life as told by herself., There was once a Prince, Out in Life's Rain, The memories of Ronald Love Bliss Carman poet, one of the Confederation Poets Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, Songs From Vagabondia, A Seamark: A Threnody for Robert Louis Stevenson, Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book Of The Sea, By The Aurelian Wall: And Other Elegies, Pipes Of Pan: From the Book of Myths, The Rough Rider: And Other Poems, The Dead Faun Vedam Venkataraya Sastry dramatist, poet, literary critic, translator, and dictionary editor Usha Parinayam, chief editor of the dictionary Suryaraya Andhra Nighantuvu Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler writer of romances and children's literature, poet Verses Grave and Gay, Concerning Isabel Carnaby, Fuel of Fire, Place and Power, Kate of Kate Hall, Miss Fallowfield's Fortune, Her Ladyship's Conscience Georges Courteline dramatist, novelist, satirist, literary reviewer Les Gaités de l'escadron, Les Femmes d'amis, Ombres Parisiennes, Hortense, couche-toi!, Godefroy Edward Carpenter philosopher, utopian socialist, poet, travel writer, activist and advocate for gay rights, sexual liberation, prison reform, vegetarianism, and the Christ myth theory Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, Simplification of Life, Towards Democracy, From Adam's Peak to Elephanta: Sketches in Ceylon and India, Pagan and Christian Creeds, Moses: A Drama in Five Acts, Homogenic Love and Its Place in a Free Society Hugo von Hofmannsthal novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, essayist, and screenwriter. A member of the Modernist literary group Young Vienna Jedermann, The Lord Chandos Letter, the screenplay for the film Der Rosenkavalier (1926), the libretti for the operas Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Die ägyptische Helena, and Arabella (1933) José de Castro lawyer, journalist, politician, prime minister of Portugal in 1915 redactor of the newspaper O Districto da Guarda, founder of the republican newspaper O Povo Português Mary MacLane c. memoirist, screenwriter The Story of Mary MacLane, My Friend Annabel Lee, I, Mary Maclane: A Diary of Human Days, the screenplay for her autobiographical film Men Who Have Made Love to Me (1918) Rainis playwright, translator, poet, and politician Uguns un nakts (Fire and Night), Indulis un Ārija (Indulis and Ārija), Iļja Muromietis (Ilya Muromets), Rīgas ragana (The Witch of Riga), Zelta Zirgs (The Golden Horse) Francis Darwin botanist, literary editor The Power of Movement in Plants, an expanded second edition of Insectivorous Plants, The Practical Physiology of Plants, Elements of Botany, Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History Arno Holz Naturalist poet, dramatist Phantasus, Buch der Zeit (book of time), Papa Hamlet, Die Familie Selicke, Change in Dramatic Time Max Lehmann historian, specialist in military history Das Aufgebot zur Heerfahrt Ottos II nach Italien (Otto II's military expedition in Italy), Der Krieg von 1870 bis zur Einschliessung von Metz (The War of 1870 up to the encirclement of Metz), Friedrich der Grosse und der Ursprung des siebenjärigen Krieges (Frederick the Great and the origin of the Seven Years' War), Die Erhebung von 1813 (The uprising of 1813) Alexandru Davila dramatist, memoirist, diplomat, public administrator, and police inspector Vlaicu Vodă, Din torsul zilelor Olav Aukrust Romantic poet, teacher Himmelvarden Harry Crosby poet, diarist, and publisher. A member of the Lost Generation of expatriate writers, and co-founder of the publishing company Black Sun Press Sonnets for Caresse, Red Skeletons, Chariot of the Sun, Shadows of the Sun, Transit of Venus, Mad Queen, Sleeping Together, Aphrodite in Flight: Being Some Observations on the Aerodynamics of Love, Collected Poems of Harry Crosby, War Letters Ella M. S. Marble physician, journalist, newspaper editor, educator, and public lecturer primarily known for writing works on physical culture for women and "healthful" dress Dallas Lore Sharp academic, assistant librarian, nature writer, ornithologist Wildlife Near Home, A Watcher in the Woods, Ways of the Woods, In American Fields and Forests, Where Rolls the Oregon, The Hills of Hingham, Highlands and Hollows, The Magical Chance, Romances frrm the Old Testament, Christ and His Time Evelyn Whitaker children's writer, novelist, short story writer Miss Toosey's Mission, Laddie, Tip Cat, Our Little Ann, For the Fourth Time of Asking, Lassie, Peter's Adventure, The Tidy Wood. A Tale
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.