2027 in public domain

The works of Bertolt Brecht, of which he is the sole author, will enter the public domain in Europe in 2027.

When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of creators whose works enter the public domain in 2027. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.

Entering the public domain in countries with life + 70 years

With the exception of Belarus (Life + 50 years) and Spain (which has a copyright term of 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. For previously unpublished material, those who publish it first will have the publication rights for 25 years. In addition several other countries in the world have a limit of 70 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Pietro Badoglio	Italy	28 September 1871	1 November 1956	General	La guerra d'Etiopia, L'Italia nella seconda guerra mondiale
Julien Benda	France	26 December 1867	7 June 1956	Writer	Bibliography
Bertold Brecht	Germany	10 February 1898	14 August 1956	Playwright	Mother Courage and Her Children
Ezio Camussi	Italy	16 January 1877	11 August 1956	Composer	Compositions
Francisco de Aquino Correia	Brazil	2 April 1885	22 March 1956	Writer
Mohammed Hussein Heikal	Egypt	20 August 1888	8 December 1956	Novelist	Zeinab
Irène Joliot-Curie	France	12 September 1897	17 March 1956	Chemist
Aino Kallas	Finland, Estonia	2 August 1878	9 November 1956	Writer	Sudenmorsian, The Pastor of Reigi, Barbara von Tisenhusen
Paul Léautaud	France	18 January 1872	22 February 1956	Writer	Works
Guido Leto	Italy	5 November 1895	1956	Politician	Publications
Évariste Lévi-Provençal	France	4 January 1894	27 March 1956	Orientalist	Histoire de l'Espagne musulmane
A. A. Milne	United Kingdom	18 January 1882	31 January 1956	Writer	Winnie-the-Pooh
Giovanni Papini	Italy	9 January 1881	8 July 1956	Writer	Publications
Alex Raymond	United States	2 October 1909	6 September 1956	Writer	Flash Gordon
Jackson Pollock	United States	28 January 1912	11 August 1956	Painter
Jacques Sadoul	France	22 May 1881	18 November 1956	Politician	Works
Michael Ventris	United Kingdom	12 July 1922	6 September 1956	Classics scholar, philologist	Documents in Mycenaean Greek, Introducing the Minoan Language

Countries with life + 60 years

In Bangladesh, India, and Venezuela a work enters the public domain 60 years after the creator's death.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Ralph Allen	Canada	25 August 1913	2 December 1966	Writer, journalist	Peace River Country
Lauro Ayestarán	Uruguay	9 July 1913	22 July 1966	Musicologist	La música en el Uruguay
André Breton	France	19 February 1896	28 September 1966	Writer, poet	Surrealist Manifesto
Jan Brzechwa	Poland	15 August 1898	2 July 1966	Poet
Deems Taylor	United States	22 December 1885	3 July 1966	Composer, music critic
Walt Disney	United States	5 December 1901	15 December 1966	Filmmaker
C. S. Forester	United Kingdom	27 August 1899	2 April 1966	Writer	Horatio Hornblower, The African Queen, The General
Lloyd Garrett	United States	2 July 1886	15 April 1966	Tenor, composer
Alberto Giacometti	Switzerland	10 October 1901	11 January 1966	Sculptor, painter	The Palace at 4 a.m., L'Homme au doigt, Grande tête mince, L'Homme qui marche I, Large Standing Woman I, Monumental Head
César Batlle Pacheco	Uruguay	3 August 1885	6 January 1966	Politician, Journalist
Olhinto María Simoes	Uruguay	5 June 1901	9 October 1966	Poet, journalist	La sombra de los plátanos
Cordwainer Smith	United States	11 July 1913	6 August 1966	Science fiction writer, professor, military officer	Psychological Warfare, Norstrilia, Scanners Live in Vain, Alpha Ralpha Boulevard, A Planet Named Shayol
Evelyn Waugh	United Kingdom	28 October 1903	10 April 1966	Writer	Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust
Mohamed Fawzi	Egypt	15 August 1918	20 October 1966	Singer, Musician	Kassaman
Mohamed El Qasabgi	Egypt	1892	25 March 1966	Musician	Raq El Habib
Badie' Khayri	Egypt	17 August 1893	1 February 1966	Playwright	Hassan wa Murqus wa Cohen
Sayyid Qutb	Egypt	9 October 1906	29 August 1966	Writer	Ma'alim fi al-Tariq, Fi Zilal al-Quran

Countries with life + 50 years

In most countries of Africa and Asia, as well as Belarus, Bolivia, 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
Benjamin Britten	United Kingdom	22 November 1913	4 December 1976	Composer	List of compositions by Benjamin Britten
Agatha Christie	United Kingdom	15 September 1890	12 January 1976	Author	The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Stuart Cloete	South Africa	23 July 1897	19 March 1976	Author	Turning Wheels
Daniel F. Galouye	United States	11 February 1920	7 September 1976	SF Author	Dark Universe
Munro Leaf	United States	4 December 1905	21 December 1976	Author	The Story of Ferdinand
André Malraux	France	3 November 1901	23 November 1976	Author	La Condition Humaine
Robert L. May	United States	27 July 1905	11 August 1976	Retailer	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Edgar Pangborn	United States	25 February 1909	1 February 1976	SF Author	A Mirror for Observers
Thomas Burnett Swann	United States	12 October 1928	5 May 1976	SF Author, poet	The Minotaur Trilogy
Guillermo Tolentino	Philippines	24 July 1890	12 July 1976	Sculptor	Bonifacio Monument, UP Oblation

Countries with life + 80 years

See also: Works that entered the public domain in countries with life + 70 years in 2017

Spain has a copyright term of life + 80 years for creators that died before 1987. In Colombia and Equatorial Guinea a work enters the public domain 80 years after the creator's death.

United States

See also: Public domain in the United States

Notable works entering the public domain in the United States in 2027 include Universal Pictures' Frankenstein and Dracula films

Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1931, films released in 1931, and other works published in 1931, will enter the public domain in 2027. Sound recordings that were published in 1926 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1956 will also enter the public domain. The Disney animated short The Moose Hunt, featuring the first named appearance of Pluto, enters the public domain. Universal Pictures' Frankenstein and Dracula adaptations will be among the works to enter the public domain. In addition, the character Dick Tracy will enter the public domain.

Other significant films entering the public domain include Charlie Chaplin's City Lights, 1931 Best Picture Oscar-winner Cimarron, Gangster films Little Caesar and The Public Enemy, the Marx Brothers film Monkey Business, Laurel and Hardy's first feature film Pardon Us, Fritz Lang's serial killer drama M, Josef von Sternberg's Dishonored starring Marlene Dietrich, Michael Powell's directorial debut Two Crowded Hours, Otto Preminger's directorial debut The Great Love, F. W. Murnau's final film Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, G. W. Pabst's The Threepenny Opera, Mário Peixoto's Limite, Dave Fleischer's Bimbo's Initiation, the first Canadian sound film The Viking, the first Soviet sound film Road to Life, the first Japanese sound film The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, the first Bollywood-musical Alam Ara (now believed lost) and the first Chinese sound film Sing-Song Girl Red Peony.

Artworks entering the public domain include Salvador Dali's painting The Persistence of Memory, Georgia O'Keeffe's painting Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue, Grant Wood's painting The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, Thomas Hart Benton's painting America Today, Paul Landowski's sculpture Christ the Redeemer, Pablo Picasso's sculpture Bust of a Woman (Marie-Thérèse), August Sander's photograph Secretary at West German Radio, Cologne and M.C. Escher's early print Atrani, Coast of Amalfi.

Important literary works entering the public domain include Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth, Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, Lynn Riggs' play Green Grows the Lilacs, Erich Maria Remarque's novel The Road Back, Winston Churchill's final volume of The World Crisis, Georges Simenon's novel The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (containing the first introduction of inspector Inspector Jules Maigret) in its original French, Hergé's Tintin in the Congo in its original French black-and-white version, and Jean de Brunhoff's The Story of Babar in its original French.

See also

• 1956 in literature and 1976 in literature for deaths of writers
• Public Domain Day
• Creative Commons
• 2028 in public domain

External links

• Media related to Undelete in 2027 at Wikimedia Commons
• "Authors by Year of Death – 1956". AuthorAndBookInfo.com.
• Popular Books of 1931 at Goodreads