2008 in public domain

Short description: Overview of works entering public domain

When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of works that entered the public domain in 2008. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.

## Contents

* 1 Entered the public domain in countries with life + 70 years
* 2 Entered the public domain in countries with life + 50 years
* 3 Entering the public domain in the United States
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## 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.[1][2] The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator that entered the public domain on January 1, 2008.

Names  | Country  | Birth  | Death  | Occupation  | Notable work

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J. M. Barrie  |  United Kingdom  | 1860  | 1937  | novelist, playwright.  | The Little White Bird, Peter and Wendy
Julian Bell  |  United Kingdom  | 1908  | 1937  | poet, book editor.  | Winter Movement, Work for the Winter
Jean de Brunhoff  |  France  | 1899  | 1937  | children's writer, illustrator.  | The Story of Babar, Babar and Father Christmas
Ellis Parker Butler  |  United States  | 1869  | 1937  | short story writer, essayist.  | Pigs Is Pigs, Philo Gubb, The Correspondence School Detective
Ralph Connor  |  Canada  | 1860  | 1937  | novelist.  | Black Rock, a Tale of the Selkirks, The Gay Crusader
Frederic Taber Cooper  |  United States  | 1864  | 1937  | magazine editor, historian.  | Word formation in the Roman Sermo Plebeius. An historical study of the development of vocabulary in vulgar and late Latin, with special reference to the Romance languages, History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature
John Drinkwater  |  United Kingdom  | 1882  | 1937  | poet, dramatist.  | Abraham Lincoln, The Death of Leander
Florence Dugdale  |  United Kingdom  | 1879  | 1937  | children's writer, biographer.  | The Book of Baby Birds, The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, 1892–1928
Edward Garnett  |  United Kingdom  | 1868  | 1937  | writer, critic, literary editor.  | The Breaking Point, a Censured Play. With Preface and a Letter to the Censor, The great war in 1916, a neutral's indictment
Ivor Gurney  |  United Kingdom  | 1890  | 1937  | poet, composer.  | Five Elizabethan Songs , The Western Playland
Elizabeth Haldane  |  United Kingdom  | 1862  | 1937  | biographer, philosopher.  | From One Century to Another: The Reminiscences of Elizabeth S. Haldane, The Scotland of our Fathers: A Study of Scottish Life in the Nineteenth Century
W. F. Harvey  |  United Kingdom  | 1885  | 1937  | horror fiction writer.  | August Heat, Midnight House and Other Tales
William F. Lloyd  |  Newfoundland  | 1864  | 1937  | journalist, newspaper editor.  | editor of The Telegram
H. P. Lovecraft |  United States  | 1890  | 1937  | writer of weird fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction.  | The Call of Cthulhu, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
Don Marquis  |  United States  | 1878  | 1937  | humorist, novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright.  | The Dark Hours,  archy and mehitabel
H. C. McNeile  |  United Kingdom  | 1888  | 1937  | writer of thrillers and war stories.  | Bulldog Drummond, The Black Gang
Chūya Nakahara  |  Japan  | 1907  | 1937  | poet, translator.  | Goat Songs, Songs of Bygone Days
Tomas O'Crohan  |  Republic of Ireland  | 1856  | 1937  | diarist, memoirist.  | Island Cross-Talk, The Islandman
Horacio Quiroga  |  Uruguay  | 1878  | 1937  | playwright, poet, short story writer.  | Stories of Love, Madness, and Death, Jungle Tales
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo  |  Madagascar  | 1901  | 1937  | poet, novelist, opera writer, literary critic, journal editor.  | The Cup of Ashes, The Red Dawn
Albert Verwey  |  Netherlands  | 1865  | 1937  | poet, translator, literary historian.  | Persephone
Edith Wharton  |  United States  | 1862  | 1937  | novelist, short story writer.  | The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth

## 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.

Names  | Country  | Birth  | Death  | Occupation  | Notable work

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Sholem Asch  |  Poland  | 1880  | 1957  | dramatist, essayist, novelist.  | In a Bad Time, God of Vengeance
Arturo Barea  |  Spain  | 1897  | 1957  | autobiographer, radio broadcaster.  | The Forging of a Rebel, Struggle for the Spanish Soul
Roy Campbell  |  South Africa  | 1901  | 1957  | literary critic, poet, satirist, translator.  | The Wayzgoose: A South African Satire, The Georgiad – A Satirical Fantasy in Verse
Joyce Cary  |  Ireland  | 1888  | 1957  | poet, short story writer.  | Mister Johnson, The Horse's Mouth
A. E. Coppard  |  United Kingdom  | 1878  | 1957  | poet, short story writer.  | Fearful Pleasures, Nixey's Harlequin
William Craigie  |  United Kingdom  | 1867  | 1957  | lexicographer, philologist.  | editor for the Oxford English Dictionary, founding editor of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
Alfred Döblin  |  Germany  | 1878  | 1957  | essayist, novelist.  | Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Three Leaps of Wang Lun
Lord Dunsany  |  Ireland  | 1878  | 1957  | short story writer, playwright, novelist, poet.  | The King of Elfland's Daughter, The Gods of Pegāna
May Edginton  |  United Kingdom  | 1883  | 1957  | novelist, playwright.  | Secrets, The Prude's Fall
Ernest Elmore  |  United Kingdom  | 1901  | 1957  | crime novelist, fantasy writer.  | The Lake District Murder, The Cornish Coast Murder
Rose Fyleman  |  United Kingdom  | 1877  | 1957  | children's writer, playwright, poet, translator.  | There are fairies at the bottom of our garden, Lift your hidden faces
Oliver St. John Gogarty  |  Ireland  | 1878  | 1957  | playwright, oet.  | Blight, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street
Barbu Lăzăreanu  |  Romania  | 1881  | 1957  | bibliographer, literary historian, satirist.  |  Constantin Radovici, Agatha Bârsescu, Nora Marinescu, Slabs and Debris from Epidaurus' Temple
José Lins do Rego  |  Brazil  | 1901  | 1957  | novelist.  | Menino de engenho (Plantation boy), Pureza
Malcolm Lowry  |  United Kingdom  | 1909  | 1957  | novelist, poet.  | Under the Volcano, Ultramarine
Curzio Malaparte  |  Italy  | 1898  | 1957  | filmmaker, war correspondent.  | Kaputt, The Skin
Mait Metsanurk  |  Estonia  | 1879  | 1957  | novelist, short story writer, playwright.  | Ümera jõel (On the Ümera River),  Uues korteris
Gabriela Mistral  |  Chile  | 1889  | 1957  | poet.  | Sonetos de la Muerte (Sonnets of Death), Despair
Christopher Morley  |  United States  | 1890  | 1957  | essayist, journalist, novelist, poet.  | Parnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Bookshop
Mulshankar Mulani  | Template:Country data Gujarat | 1867  | 1957  | playwright.  | Saubhagya Sundari, Barrister
John Middleton Murry  |  United Kingdom  | 1889  | 1957  | essayist, literary critic.  | God: An Introduction to the Science of Metabiology, Katherine Mansfield and Other Literary Portraits
Leo Perutz |  Austria  | 1882  | 1957  | horror novelist, mathematician.  | From Nine to Nine, The Master of the Day of Judgement
Rhoda Power  |  United Kingdom  | 1890  | 1957  | children's writer, historical novelist.  | Redcap Runs Away, From the Fury of the Northmen: and Other Stories That Shaped Our Destiny in 18th to 19th Century England
Dorothy Richardson  |  United Kingdom  | 1873  | 1957  | novelist, journalist.  | Pilgrimage, Pointed Roofs
Kenneth Roberts |  United States  | 1885  | 1957  | historical novelist.  | Northwest Passage, Lydia Bailey
Dorothy L. Sayers |  United Kingdom  | 1893  | 1957  | crime novelist, literary critic, playwright, poet, translator.  | The Nine Tailors, Whose Body?
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa  |  Italy  | 1896  | 1957  | historical novelist.  | The Leopard, The Professor and the Siren
Stanley Vestal  |  United States  | 1887  | 1957  | biographer, historian, novelist.  | Kit Carson, the Happy Warrior of the West, Sitting Bull-Champion of the Sioux-a Biography
Laura Ingalls Wilder  |  United States  | 1867  | 1957  | novelist, journalist.  | Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie
Alfred Eckhard Zimmern  |  United Kingdom  | 1879  | 1957  | classical scholar, historian, political scientist.  | The Greek Commonwealth: Politics and Economics in Fifth Century Athens, The Third British Empire

## 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.[3][4] If the work is owned by a corporation, then the copyright extends 95 years.[5]

Due to the passing of the Copyright Term Extension Act (Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act) in 1998, no new works would enter the public domain in this jurisdiction until 2019.[6]

## See also

* 1937 in literature and 1957 in literature for deaths of writers
* Public Domain Day
* Creative Commons

## References

1. ↑ "EU Extends Copyright Term To 70 Years | Billboard". Billboard.biz. 2011-09-12. http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/publishing/eu-extends-copyright-term-to-70-years-1005348552.story. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
2. ↑ Directive 2006/116/EC
3. ↑ "What Could Have Entered the Public Domain | Duke University School of Law". http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2012/pre-1976.
4. ↑ "S.505 - One Hundred Fifth Congress of the United States of America at the Second Session. An act to amend the provisions of title 17, United States Code, with respect to the duration of copyright, and for other purposes". https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/s505.pdf.
5. ↑ "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States | Copyright Information Center". http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm.
6. ↑ "United States Copyright Law". http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php.

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* Public Domain Day gifts
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