2016 in public domain

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

## Authors entering the public domain

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

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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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Achmed Abdullah |  United States | 12 May 1881 | 12 May 1945 | Pulp writer and screenwriter  |
Nikola Avramov |  Bulgaria | 21 May 1897 | 15 June 1945 | Still life paintings  |
Milena Pavlović-Barili |  Serbia | 5 November 1909 | 6 March 1945 | Painter, poet  |
Maurice Baring |  United Kingdom | 27 April 1874 | 14 December 1945 | Writer  |
Béla Bartók |  Hungary | 25 March 1881 | 26 September 1945 | Composer  | Concerto for Orchestra
Robert Benchley |  United States | 15 September 1889 | 21 November 1945 | Humorist  | newspaper and magazine columns
Henry Bellamann |  United States | 28 April 1882 | 16 June 1945 | Writer  | Kings Row
Ursula Bethell |  New Zealand | 6 October 1874 | 15 January 1945 | Poet  | Collected poetry
Vilhelms Bokslafs |  Latvia
Russian Empire | 12 October 1858 | 9 March 1945 | Architect  | Most notable buildings are Jaunmokas Manor near Tukums and Commercial school in Riga (now Art Academy of Latvia)
Nicola Bombacci |  Italy | 24 October 1879 | 28 April 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 | 4 February 1906 | 9 April 1945 | Theologian
Robert Brasillach |  France | 31 March 1909 | 6 February 1945 | Writer  | Je suis partout
Miles J. Breuer |  United States | 3 January 1889 | 14 October 1945 | Writer  | "The Gostak and the Doshes" (1930) and other science fiction stories
Fritz Brupbacher |   Switzerland | 30 June 1874 | 1 January 1945 | Writer  | Der Sinn des Lebens
Thomas Burke |  United Kingdom | 29 November 1886 | 22 November 1945 | Writer  | Limehouse Nights
Alexander Stirling Calder |  United States | 11 January 1870 | 7 January 1945 | Sculptor  |  George Washington as President
David Young Cameron |  United Kingdom | 28 June 1865 | 16 September 1945 | Artist  |
Franklin Carmichael |  Canada | 5 May 1890 | 24 October 1945 | Artist  |
Anica Černej |  Slovenia | 3 April 1900 | 3 May 1945 | Author, poet  |
Benjamin De Casseres |  United States | 3 April 1873 | 7 December 1945 | Journalist, poet  | The Shadow-Eater
Margaret Deland |  United States | 23 February 1856 | 13 January 1945 | Writer  | John Ward, Preacher
Mário de Andrade |  Brazil | 9 October 1893 | 25 February 1945 | Writer  | Macunaíma
Robert Desnos |  France | 4 July 1900 | 8 June 1945 | Poet  |
Maurice Donnay |  France | 12 October 1859 | 31 March 1945 | Dramatist  |
Lord Alfred Douglas |  United Kingdom | 12 June 1859 | 20 March 1945 | Writer  | Two Loves
Theodore Dreiser |  United States | 27 August 1871 | 28 December 1945 | Writer, journalist  | Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy
E. R. Eddison |  United Kingdom | 24 November 1882 | 18 August 1945 | Writer  | The Worm Ouroboros
Gus Edwards |  United States | 18 August 1879 | 7 November 1945 | Songwriter  | "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "In My Merry Oldsmobile"
Eleanor Fortescue-Brigdale |  United Kingdom | 1871  | 10 March 1945 | Artist  | The Uninvited Guest, Riches
Anne Frank |  Germany | 12 June 1929 | February 1945 | Diarist  | The Diary of a Young Girl
Øvre Richter Frich |  Norway | 24 March 1872 | 13 May 1945 | Writer, journalist  |
Zinaida Gippius |  Russia | 20 November 1869 | 9 September 1945 | Writer, poet  |
Adolf Hitler |  Germany | 20 April 1889 | 30 April 1945 | Politician, Dictator of Nazi Germany  | Mein Kampf, Zweites Buch
Suphi Nuri İleri |  Turkey | 1887  | 1945  | Writer  |
Ljubomir Ivanović |  Serbia | 24 February 1882 | 23 November 1945 | Printmaker, draughtsman  |
Malcolm Jameson |  United States | 21 December 1891 | 16 April 1945 | Writer  | Writer for American pulp magazines during the Golden Age of Science Fiction
Joseph Jastrow |  United States | 30 January 1863 | 8 January 1945 | Psychologist  |
Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski |  Poland | 24 February 1885 | 8 August 1945 | Writer, journalist  |
Osman Cemal Kaygılı |  Turkey | 4 October 1879 | 9 January 1945 | Writer  |
Carl Wilhelm Kern |  United States | 4 June 1874 | 19 August 1945 | Composer  |
Käthe Kollwitz |  Germany | 8 July 1867 | 22 April 1945 | Artist  | The Prisoners
Julius Korngold |  Austria | 24 December 1860 | 25 September 1945 | Music critic  |
Jaroslav Kratochvil [cs] |  Czech Republic | 17 January 1885 | 20 March 1945 | Writer  |
René Lalique |  France | 6 April 1860 | 1 May 1945 | Glass designer  |
Else Lasker-Schüler |  Germany | 11 February 1869 | 22 January 1945 | Writer  | poetry and plays
James Leatham[3] |  United Kingdom | 19 December 1865 | 14 December 1945 | Writer, printer, publisher  |
Jonas Lie |  Norway | 31 December 1899 | 11 May 1945 | Writer, minister  |
David Lindsay |  United Kingdom | 3 March 1876 | 16 July 1945 | Writer  | A Voyage to Arcturus
Eoin MacNeill |  Ireland | 15 May 1867 | 15 October 1945 | Writer  | Phases of Irish History
Tobias Matthay |  United Kingdom | 19 February 1858 | 15 December 1945 | Teacher, pianist, composer  | writings on piano playing
Arthur Mendel [ro] |  Romania | 1872  | 1945  | Painter  |
Régis Messac |  France | 2 August 1893 | 1945  | Writer, poet, translator  |
James V. Monaco |  United States | 13 January 1885 | 16 October 1945 | Songwriter  | "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)"
Arthur Morrison |  United Kingdom | 1 November 1863 | 4 December 1945 | Writer  | A Child of the Jago
Benito Mussolini |  Italy | 29 July 1883 | 28 April 1945 | Politician  | My Autobiography
Moritz Nähr |  Austria | 4 August 1859 | 29 June 1945 | Photographer  |
Alla Nazimova |  United States | 3 June 1879 | 13 July 1945 | Writer, actor  |
Dobri Nemirov [bg] |  Bulgaria | 3 February 1882 | 30 September 1945 | Writer  | When I was young
Otto Neurath |  Austria | 10 December 1882 | 22 December 1945 | Writer  | Anti-Spengler
Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen |  Denmark | 21 June 1863 | 21 February 1945 | Sculptor  | Equestrian Statue of King Christian IX, Copenhagen
Charles Gilman Norris |  United States | 23 April 1881 | 25 July 1945 | Writer, playwright  | Salt (1919)
George S. Patton |  United States | 11 November 1885 | 21 December 1945 | General  | War As I Knew it
Harry Pease [de] |  United States | 6 September 1886 | 8 November 1944 | Songwriter  |
Calel Perechodnik |  Poland | 8 September 1916 | September 1945 | Diarist  |
Ion Pillat |  Romania | 31 March 1891 | 17 April 1945 | Poet  | Pe Argeș în sus, Poeme într-un vers
Karel Poláček |  Czech Republic | 22 March 1892 | 21 January 1945 | Writer  |
Vilhelms Purvītis |  Latvia
Russian Empire | 3 March 1872 | 14 January 1945 | Landscape painter and educator  |
Ernö Rapée |  United States | 4 June 1891 | 26 June 1945 | Composer  | silent film music
Edward Prosser Rhys |  United Kingdom | 4 March 1901 | 6 February 1945 | Writer  | Cerddi Prosser Rhys
Albert Richards |  United Kingdom | 19 December 1919 | 5 March 1945 | Artist  | Artwork produced during the Second World War about the British war effort
Alexander Roda Roda |  Austria | 13 April 1872 | 20 August 1945 | Writer  |
Hando Ruus |  Estonia | 16 May 1917 | 31 March 1945 | Military captain, artist  |
Felix Salten |  Austria | 6 September 1869 | 8 October 1945 | Writer  | Bambi. Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde
Alexander Siloti |  Ukraine | 9 October 1863 | 8 December 1945 | Pianist, composer  |
Kārlis Skalbe |  Latvia
Russian Empire | 7 November 1879 | 14 April 1945 | Writer, poet, and activist  |
Paul Smărăndescu [ro] |  Romania | 26 June 1881 | 12 January 1945 | Architect  |
Antal Szerb |  Hungary | 1 May 1901 | 27 January 1945 | Writer  | The Pendragon Legend
Ong Schan Tchow |  China | 19 September 1900 | 20 December 1945 | Artist  | Book of Chrysanthemums
Nikolai Tcherepnin |  Russia | 15 May 1873 | 26 June 1945 | Composer  |
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy |  Russia | 15 May 1873 | 26 June 1945 | Writer  | Aelita, The Garin Death Ray, The Road to Calvary
Teodor Trayanov [bg] |  Bulgaria | 30 January 1882 | 15 January 1945 | Poet  | Song of songs, Regina Mortua, Hymns and Ballads
Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil |  Turkey | 1866  | 27 March 1945 | Writer  |
Anton Webern |  Austria | 3 December 1883 | 15 September 1945 | Composer  |
Franz Werfel |  Austria | 10 September 1890 | 26 August 1945 | Writer  | The Song of Bernadette
Charles Williams |  United Kingdom | 20 September 1886 | 15 May 1945 | Writer  | Descent into Hell
John R. Commons |  United States | 13 October 1862 | 11 May 1945 | Economist  | Institutional Economics
August Lösch |  Germany | 15 October 1906 | 30 May 1945 | Economist  | Die räumliche Ordnung der Wirtschaft
David Lloyd George |  United Kingdom | 17 January 1863 | 26 March 1945 | Politician  | The Truth About The Peace Treaty, War Memoirs
Joseph Goebbels |  Germany | 29 October 1897 | 1 May 1945 | Politician  | Goebbels Diaries

### Entering the public domain in the United States

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See also: 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

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### Books

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* 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

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* Winter by Vilhelms Purvītis

### Music

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* 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

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* List of countries' copyright lengths
* Public Domain Day
* Creative Commons
* Public Domain
* Over 300 public domain authors available in Wikisource (any language), with descriptions from Wikidata
* 1945 in literature, 1955 in literature, 1965 in literature and 1975 in literature

## References

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1. ^ "EU Extends Copyright Term To 70 Years | Billboard". Billboard.biz. 2011-09-12. Archived from the original on 2013-01-06. 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.
4. ^ "Copyright and the Public Domain". Public Domain Information Project. Archived from the original on 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2015-12-13.

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