2012 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 2012. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform. Not all works in the public domain have been expired, some works are deliberately donated into the collection for the public good by their owners.[1][2]

## Contents

* 1 Entering the public domain in Europe
* 1.1 Authors
* 1.2 Film
* 1.3 Music
* 1.4 Other notable figures
* 2 Brazil
* 3 Entering the public domain in the United States
* 4 See also
* 5 External links
* 6 References

## Entering the public domain in Europe

In most European nations with the exception of Belarus , copyright law extends for the life of the author or artist, plus 70 years.[3]

### Authors

* Sherwood Anderson
* Gabriel Alomar i Villalonga
* Elizabeth von Arnim
* Raffaello Bertieri
* Simon Dubnow
* Adriano Tilgher
* Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva
* Hugh Walpole
* Virginia Woolf
* James Joyce
* Tariro Musindo

### Film

* Walter Ruttmann

### Music

* Frank Bridge
* Arkady Gaidar
* Amalia Guglielminetti
* Alter Kacyzne
* Gustav Gerson Kahn
* Adolf Koczirz
* Jelly Roll Morton

### Other notable figures

* Edward Bausch
* Henri Bergson
* Frederick Banting
* Robert Baden-Powell
* John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum
* Louis Brandeis
* August Cesarec
* Louis-Joseph Chevrolet
* Robert Delaunay
* James Frazer
* Tullio Levi-Civita
* Lazar Markovich Lissitzky
* George Minne
* Gaetano Mosca
* Ignacy Jan Paderewski
* Kole Nedelkovski
* Wilhelm II
* Petar Poparsov
* Giuseppe Rensi
* Rabindranath Tagore
* Santiago Rusiñol

## Brazil

* António Cabreira

## 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.[4][5] If the work is owned by a corporation, then the copyright extends 95 years.[6]

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.[7]

In January 2012, the Supreme Court in a 6-2 decision stated that works in the public domain can have their copyright status renewed.[8]

## See also

* 2007 in public domain
* 2008 in public domain
* 2009 in public domain
* 2010 in public domain
* 2011 in public domain
* 2013 in public domain
* 2013 in public domain
* 2014 in public domain
* 2015 in public domain
* 2016 in public domain
* 2017 in public domain
* 2018 in public domain
* 2019 in public domain
* 2020 in public domain
* 2021 in public domain
* 2022 in public domain
* List of countries' copyright lengths
* Public Domain Day
* Creative Commons
* Public Domain
* 1941 in literature, 1951 in literature, 1961 in literature, and 1971 in literature for writers who died in those years
* Over 300 public domain authors available in Wikisource (any language), with descriptions from Wikidata

## External links

* PublicDomainDay.org
* Center for the Study of the Public Domain's Public Domain Day 2012

## References

1. ↑ "The Public Domain in Copyright Law". http://www.edwardsamuels.com/copyright/beyond/articles/public.html.
2. ↑ "Find the Best Free PC Games on These Sites!". http://compactiongames.about.com/od/abandonwarefaqs/f/abandon1_faq.htm.
3. ↑ "Billboard Business". http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/publishing/eu-extends-copyright-term-to-70-years-1005348552.story.
4. ↑ "What Could Have Entered the Public Domain | Duke University School of Law". http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2012/pre-1976.
5. ↑ "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.
6. ↑ "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States | Copyright Information Center" (in en). http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm.
7. ↑ "United States Copyright Law". http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php.
8. ↑ Liptak, Adam (19 January 2012). "Public Domain Works Can be Copyrighted Anew, Supreme Court Rules". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/business/public-domain-works-can-be-copyrighted-anew-justices-rule.html.

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Years in public domain

* ... 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024
* 2025

* Public Domain Day
* Creative Commons

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