2016 in 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 2016. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.

## Contents

* 1 Authors entering the public domain
* 1.1 Authors entering the public domain 70 years after death
* 1.2 Entering the public domain in the United States
* 2 Works entering in public domain in 2016 by media
* 2.1 Books
* 2.2 Images
* 2.3 Music
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Authors entering the public domain

### Authors entering the public domain 70 years after death

With the exception of Belarus and Spain , a work enters the public domain in Europe and Brazil 70 years after the creator's death, if it was published during the creator's lifetime. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator that entered the public domain on January 1, 2016.[1][2]

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

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Nikola Avramov  |  Bulgaria  | 1897  | 1945  |  | still life paintings
Milena Pavlović-Barili  |  Serbia  | 1909  | 1945  | Painter, poet  |
Maurice Baring  |  United Kingdom  | 1874  | 1945  | Writer  |
Béla Bartók  |  Hungary  | 1881  | 1945  | Composer  | Concerto for Orchestra
Robert Benchley  |  USA  | 1889  | 1945  | Humorist  | newspaper and magazine columns
Henry Bellamann  |  USA  | 1882  | 1945  | Writer  | Kings Row
Ursula Bethell  |  New Zealand  | 1874  | 1945  | Poet  | Collected poetry
Vilhelms Bokslafs  |  Latvia
Russian Empire  | 1858  | 1945  | Architect  | Most notable buildings are Jaunmokas Manor near Tukums and Commercial school in Riga (Now Art Academy of Latvia)
Nicola Bombacci  |  Italy  | 1879  | 1945  | Marxist-Fascist journalist  | Il mio pensiero sul bolscevismo (1941),
I contadini nella Russia di Stalin (1942),
I contadini nell'Italia di Mussolini (1943)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer |  Germany  | 1906  | 1945  | Theologian
Robert Brasillach  |  France  | 1909  | 1945  | Writer  | Je suis partout
Miles J. Breuer  |  USA  | 1889  | 1945  | Writer  | "The Gostak and the Doshes" (1930) and other science fiction stories
Fritz Brupbacher  |  Switzerland | 1874  | 1945  | Writer  | Der Sinn des Lebens
Thomas Burke  |  United Kingdom  | 1886  | 1945  | Writer  | Limehouse Nights
Alexander Stirling Calder  |  USA  | 1870  | 1945  | Sculptor  |  George Washington as President
David Young Cameron  |  United Kingdom  | 1865  | 1945  | Artist  |
Franklin Carmichael  |  Canada  | 1890  | 1945  | Artist  |
Anica Černej  |  Slovenia  | 1900  | 1945  | Author, poet  |
Benjamin De Casseres  |  USA  | 1873  | 1945  | Journalist, poet  | The Shadow-Eater
Margaret Deland  |  USA  | 1856  | 1945  | Writer  | John Ward, Preacher
Mário de Andrade  |  Brazil  | 1893  | 1945  | Writer  | Macunaíma
Robert Desnos  |  France  | 1900  | 1945  | Poet  |
Maurice Donnay  |  France  | 1859  | 1945  | Dramatist  |
Lord Alfred Douglas  |  United Kingdom  | 1859  | 1945  | Writer  | Two Loves
Theodore Dreiser  |  USA  | 1871  | 1945  | Writer, journalist  | Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy
E. R. Eddison  |  United Kingdom  | 1882  | 1945  | Writer  | The Worm Ouroboros
Gus Edwards  |  USA  | 1879  | 1945  | Songwriter  | "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "In My Merry Oldsmobile"
Eleanor Fortescue-Brigdale  | United Kingdom  | 1871  | 1945  | Artist  | The Uninvited Guest, Riches
Anne Frank  |  Germany
Netherlands  | 1929  | 1945  | Diarist  | The Diary of a Young Girl
Øvre Richter Frich  |  Norway  | 1872  | 1945  | Writer, journalist  |
Zinaida Gippius  |  Russia  | 1869  | 1945  | Writer, poet  |
Adolf Hitler  |  Germany  | 1889  | 1945  | Politician, Dictator of Nazi Germany  | Mein Kampf, Zweites Buch
Suphi Nuri İleri  |  Turkey  | 1887  | 1945  | Writer  |
Ljubomir Ivanović  |  Serbia  | 1882  | 1945  | Printmaker, draughtsman  |
Malcolm Jameson  |  USA  | 1891  | 1945  | Writer  | Writer for American pulp magazines during the Golden Age of Science Fiction
Joseph Jastrow |  USA  | 1863  | 1945  | Psychologist  |
Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski  |  Poland  | 1885  | 1945  | Writer, journalist  |
Osman Cemal Kaygılı  |  Turkey  | 1879  | 1945  | Writer  |
Carl Wilhelm Kern  |  USA  | 1874  | 1945  | Composer  |
Käthe Kollwitz  |  Germany  | 1867  | 1945  | Artist  | The Prisoners
Julius Korngold  |  Austria  | 1860  | 1945  | Music critic  |
Jaroslav Kratochvil [cs] |  Czech Republic  | 1885  | 1945  | Writer  |
René Lalique  |  France  | 1860  | 1945  | Glass designer  |
Else Lasker-Schüler  |  Germany  | 1869  | 1945  | Writer  | poetry and plays
James Leatham[3] |  United Kingdom  | 1865  | 1945  | Writer, printer, publisher  |
Jonas Lie  |  Norway  | 1899  | 1945  | Writer, minister  |
David Lindsay  |  United Kingdom  | 1876  | 1945  | Writer  | A Voyage to Arcturus
Eoin MacNeill  |  Ireland  | 1867  | 1945  | Writer  | Phases of Irish History
Tobias Matthay  |  United Kingdom  | 1858  | 1945  | Teacher, pianist, composer  | writings on piano playing
Arthur Mendel [ro] |  Romania  | 1872  | 1945  | Painter  |
Régis Messac  |  France  | 1893  | 1945  | Writer, poet, translator  |
James V. Monaco  |  USA  | 1885  | 1945  | Songwriter  | "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)"
Arthur Morrison  |  United Kingdom  | 1863  | 1945  | Writer  | A Child of the Jago
Benito Mussolini  |  Italy  | 1883  | 1945  | Politician  | My Autobiography
Moritz Nähr  |  Austria  | 1859  | 1945  | Photographer  |
Alla Nazimova  |  USA  | 1879  | 1945  | Writer, actor  |
Dobri Nemirov [bg] |  Bulgaria  | 1882  | 1945  | Writer  | When I was young
Otto Neurath |  Austria  | 1882  | 1945  | Writer  | Anti-Spengler
Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen  |  Denmark  | 1863  | 1945  | Sculptor  | Equestrian Statue of King Christian IX, Copenhagen
Charles Gilman Norris  |  USA  | 1881  | 1945  | Writer, playwright  | Salt (1919)
George S. Patton  |  USA  | 1885  | 1945  | General  | War As I Knew it
Harry Pease (de)  |  United States  | 1886  | 1944  | Songwriter  |
Calel Perechodnik  |  Poland  | 1916  | 1945  | Diarist  |
Ion Pillat  |  Romania  | 1891  | 1945  | Poet  | Pe Argeș în sus, Poeme într-un vers
Karel Poláček  |  Czech Republic  | 1892  | 1945  | Writer  |
Vilhelms Purvītis  |  Latvia
Russian Empire  | 1872  | 1945  | Landscape painter and educator  |
Ernö Rapée  |  USA  | 1891  | 1945  | Composer  | silent film music
Edward Prosser Rhys  |  United Kingdom  | 1901  | 1945  | Writer  | Cerddi Prosser Rhys
Albert Richards  |  United Kingdom  | 1919  | 1945  | Artist  | Art work produced during the Second World War about the British war effort
Alexander Roda Roda  |  Austria  | 1872  | 1945  | Writer  |
Hando Ruus  |  Estonia  | 1917  | 1945  | Military captain, artist  |
Felix Salten  |  Austria  | 1869  | 1945  | Writer  | Bambi. Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde
Alexander Siloti  |  Ukraine | 1863  | 1945  | Pianist, composer  |
Kārlis Skalbe  |  Latvia
Russian Empire  | 1879  | 1945  | Writer, poet, and activist  |
Paul Smărăndescu [ro] |  Romania  | 1881  | 1945  | Architect  |
Antal Szerb  |  Hungary  | 1901  | 1945  | Writer  | The Pendragon Legend
Ong Schan Tchow  |  China  | 1900  | 1945  | Artist  | Book of Chrysanthemums
Nikolai Tcherepnin  |  Russia  | 1873  | 1945  | Composer  |
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy  |  Russia  | 1873  | 1945  | Writer  | Aelita, The Garin Death Ray, The Road to Calvary
Teodor Trayanov [bg] |  Bulgaria  | 1882  | 1945  | Poet  | Song of songs, Regina Mortua, Hymns and Ballads
Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil  |  Turkey  | 1866  | 1945  | Writer  |
Anton Webern  |  Austria  | 1883  | 1945  | Composer  |
Franz Werfel  |  Austria  | 1890  | 1945  | Writer  | The Song of Bernadette
Charles Williams  |  United Kingdom  | 1886  | 1945  | Writer  | Descent into Hell
John R. Commons  |  United States  | 1862  | 1945  | Economist  | Institutional Economics
August Lösch  |  Germany  | 1906  | 1945  | Economist  | Die räumliche Ordnung der Wirtschaft
David Lloyd George  |  United Kingdom  | 1863  | 1945  | Politician  | The Truth About The Peace Treaty, War Memoirs
Joseph Goebbels  |  Germany  | 1897  | 1945  | Politician  | Goebbels Diaries

### Entering the public domain in the United States

The Copyright Term Extension Act means no published works would enter the public domain in this jurisdiction until 2019.[4] Only unpublished works whose authors died in 1945 enter the public domain.

## Works entering in public domain in 2016 by media

### Books

* A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
* Sidney, Philip and His Wife, The Awakening of Helena Richie, The Iron Woman, The Rising Tide by Margaret Deland.
* Paulicéia Desvairada, Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade
* Aşk-ı Memnu, Kırık Hayatlar by Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil
* Bambi, a Life in the Woods, Bambi's Children, Josephine Mutzenbacher, The Hound of Florence, Fünf Minuten Amerika, Perri by Felix Salten.
* Red Plague Poem by Józef Szczepański
* Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
* The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
* A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison
* Collection of Poems. 1889–1903 and Collection of Poems. Book 2. 1903-1909 by Zinaida Gippius
* Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
* Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, The Financier, The Titan, The "Genius", An American Tragedy, Chains: Lesser Novels and Stories, The Bulwark, The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser.
* The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison

### Images

* Winter by Vilhelms Purvītis

### Music

* Six string quartets and Cantata Profana by Béla Bartók.
* Variations for piano, op. 27, String Quartet, Op. 28, Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24 by Anton Webern.
* Prelude in E minor, BWV 855a by Alexander Siloti
* Music of Le Pavillon d'Armide Ballet by Nikolai Tcherepnin
* You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It) by James V. Monaco and Joseph McCarthy.

## See also

* 1945 in literature and 1965 in literature for deaths of writers
* Public Domain Day
* Public Domain
* Public domain music
* 2012 in public domain
* 2013 in public domain
* 2014 in public domain
* 2015 in public domain
* Over 300 public domain authors available in Wikisource (any language), with descriptions from Wikidata
* 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. ↑ Crick, Martin (1994). The History of the Social-Democratic Federation. Edinburgh University Press. p. 311. ISBN 978-1-85331-091-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=eea_kByVYsoC&pg=PA311.
4. ↑ "Copyright and the Public Domain". Public Domain Information Project. http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php. Retrieved 2015-12-13.

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