2005 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 2005. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.

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, 2005.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Jakob Wassermann	Germany	10 March 1873	1 January 1934	novelist.	Melusine, The Maurizius Case, My Life as German and Jew
Dorothy Edwards	United Kingdom	18 August 1902	5 January 1934	novelist, short story writer.	Rhapsody, Winter Sonata
Andrei Bely	Russia	26 October 1880	8 January 1934	novelist, poet, literary critic.	Petersburg, The Silver Dove
Helen Zimmern	United Kingdom	25 March 1846	11 January 1934	children's writer, biographer, political writer, translator.	Arthur Schopenhauer, his Life and his Philosophy, Tripoli and Young Italy
Hermann Bahr	Austria	19 July 1863	15 January 1934	novelist, playwright, art critic, literary critic.	The Concert, Expressionismus
Ferenc Móra	Hungary	19 July 1879	8 February 1934	novelist, journalist, museologist.	Sons of the Slave Man, A Journey in the Underground Hungary, Suns, Moons, Bygone Stars
Emeline Harriet Howe	United States	2 January 1844	28 February 1934	poet.	Poems, A Basket of Fragments, From Height to Height
Thomas Anstey Guthrie	United Kingdom	8 August 1856	10 March 1934	comic novelist, parodist, humorist.	Vice Versa, The Man from Blankley's, The Tinted Venus
Safvet-beg Bašagić	Bosnia	6 May 1870	9 April 1934	biographer, poet, bibliographer, translator.	Bosnians and Herzegovinians in Islamic literature, Illustrious Croats - Bosnians and Herzegovinians in the Ottoman empire
R. C. Packer	Australia	24 July 1879	12 April 1934	journalist, newspaper editor, publisher.	founder of Smith's Weekly and the Daily Guardian
Paul Zarifopol	Romania	30 November 1874	1 May 1934	literary critic, social critic, essayist, literary historian, magazine publisher.	founder of Revista Fundațiilor Regale, writer of A Register of Tender Ideas, Artists and Ideas in Romanian Literature
John Gray	United Kingdom	2 March 1866	14 June 1934	poet, novelist, translator.	Park: A Fantastic Story, Silverpoints, Spiritual Poems, chiefly done out of several languages
Thorne Smith	United States	27 March 1892	20 June 1934	fantasy writer, comedy writer, mystery writer, poet, screenwriter.	Topper, Topper Takes a Trip, The Night Life of the Gods, Turnabout
Naitō Konan	Japan	27 August 1866	26 June 1934	historian, Sinologist.	Nara
Fritz Gerlich	Germany	15 February 1883	30 June 1934	journalist, historian, political writer, satirist.	The Testament of Henry VI, Communism as the Theory of the Thousand Year Reich, Does Hitler Have Mongolian Blood?
Karl-Günther Heimsoth	Germany	4 December 1899	June 1934	physician, sexologist, homosexual activist, astrologist.	Hetero- and Homophilia, Love Between Friends or Homosexuality, Character Constellation: With Particular Reference to Homosexuality
Willi Schmid	Germany	12 April 1893	30 June 1934	music critic, musician.	music critic for the Münchener Neueste Nachrichten, founder of the music band Munich Viol Quartet
Hayim Nahman Bialik	Ukraine	9 January 1873	4 July 1934	poet, essayist, translator, publisher, folklorist.	In the City of Slaughter, Sefer HaAggadah
Julian Hawthorne	United States	22 June 1846	14 July 1934	novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, travel writer, biographer, historian.	The Great Bank Robbery, An American Penman, A Tragic Mystery, Section 558, Another's Crime
Karl Joel	Germany	27 March 1864	23 July 1934	philosopher.	Nietzsche und die Romantik, Ursprung der Naturphilosophie aus dem Geiste der Mystik, Geschichte der antiken Philosophie
Frane Bulić	Croatia	4 October 1846	29 July 1934	archaeologist, historian.	Croatian monuments in the Knin area and Dalmatia from the age of Croatian national dynasties, Palace of Emperor Diocletian in Split, The steps of the Croatian national rulers
Mary Hunter Austin	United States	9 September 1868	13 August 1934	nature writer, playwright.	The Land of Little Rain, The Arrow Maker, Taos Pueblo
Rebecca Richardson Joslin	United States	20 March 1846	30 August 1934	essayist, historian.	Chasing Eclipses: The Total Solar Eclipses of 1905, 1914, 1925, 1929, Essays on Early Years of Charles V. in Spain, War of the Comuneros, Rival Claimants to the Spanish Throne, French Influence in Spain, Italian Literature in the Time of Charles III. of Spain
Roger Fry	United Kingdom	14 December 1866	9 September 1934	painter, art critic, essayist, translator.	An essay in Aesthetics, Art History as an Academic Study, The Artist and Psycho-Analysis, Flemish Art
Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică	Romania	2 January 1866	21 September 1934	literary critic, biographer, editor, translator.	The Romanians and the Jews, Pointless Literature (of Course by Lucian Blaga))
Arthur Wing Pinero	United Kingdom	24 May 1855	23 November 1934	playwright, actor.	The Magistrate, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, Trelawny of the "Wells", The Gay Lord Quex
Gustave Lanson	France	5 August 1857	15 December 1934	historian, literary critic, biographer.	Molière and Farce, The New Poetry in France, The Modern Subjects in Secondary Education
Wallace Thurman	United States	16 August 1902	22 December 1934	novelist, screenwriter, playwright, ghostwriter, essayist, satirist, editor, publisher.	The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life in Harlem, Infants of the Spring
Cora Linn Daniels	United States	17 March 1852	1934	mystery novelist, poet, newspaper editor, journalist, folklorist, encyclopedia writer.	The Bronze Buddha: A Mystery, As It Is To Be, Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World: A Comprehensive Library of Human Belief and Practice in the Mysteries of Life

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
Duff Cooper	United Kingdom	22 February 1890	1 January 1954	military historian, political historian, novelist.	Old Men Forget, The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915–1951, Sergeant Shakespeare, Operation Heartbreak
E. K. Chambers	United Kingdom	16 March 1866	21 January 1954	literary historian, theatre historian, literary critic, Shakespearean scholar.	The Elizabethan Stage, The Medieval Stage, The History and Motives of Literary Forgeries, English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages
M. N. Roy	India	21 March 1887	25 January 1954	philosopher, political theorist.	India in Transition, The Future of Indian Politics, Revolution and Counter-revolution in China, The Philosophical Consequence of Modern Science
Hella Wuolijoki	Finland	22 July 1886	2 February 1954	novelist, playwright.	Entäs nyt, Niskavuori?, The Sawdust Princess
Maxwell Bodenheim	United States	26 May 1892	6 February 1954	novelist, poet, memoirist, journalist.	My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village, Naked on Roller Skates, New York Madness, Cutie : a warm mamma
Francis Brett Young	United Kingdom	29 June 1884	28 March 1954	novelist, poet, playwright, composer, memoirist.	Sea Horses, Portrait of Clare, Black Roses
Juan Álvarez	Argentina	3 September 1878	8 April 1954	historian.	Essay on the history of Santa Fe, History of Rosario (1689–1939)
Winnifred Eaton	Canada	21 August 1875	8 April 1954	novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, cookbook writer.	Miss Nume of Japan, A Japanese Nightingale, Me, A Book of Remembrance, Chinese-Japanese Cook Book
C. Fox Smith	United Kingdom	1 February 1882	8 April 1954	poet, nautical writer, novelist, short story writer, travel writer.	All the Way Round: Sea Roads to Africa, A Book of Shanties, A Sea Chest: an Anthology of Ships and Sailormen, Ancient Mariners: Some Salt Water Yesterdays
Russell Davenport	United States	1899	19 April 1954	writer, magazine editor.	My Country, A Poem of America, The Dignity of Man
Earnest Hooton	United States	20 November 1887	3 May 1954	physical anthropologist, cartoonist, humorist.	Up From The Ape, Apes, Men, and Morons, Young Man, You are Normal, Breed War Strain Out of Germans
Constantin Beldie	Romania	8 September 1887	11 June 1954	journalist, publicist, memoirist, satirist, translator.	Gloss on the Bookish Spirit, What Is It We Want? A Catechism for Indecisive Souls, People Seen from Up Close
Grantland Rice	United States	1 November 1880	13 July 1954	sportswriter, poet.	Songs of the Stalwart, The Tumult and the Shouting, Base-Ball Ballads: Grantland Rice, Casey's Revenge
Jacinto Benavente	Spain	12 August 1866	14 July 1954	playwright.	The Unloved Woman, The Bonds of Interest, The Lady of the House
Julián Padrón	Venezuela	8 September 1910	2 August 1954	novelist, short story writer, playwright, journalist, publisher.	Primavera Nocturna, Este Mundo Desolado, Parásitas Negras
Colette	France	28 January 1873	3 August 1954	novelist, short story writer, actress, journalist.	Gigi, The Tendrils of the Vine, Claudine at School
Miles Franklin	Australia	14 October 1879	19 September 1954	novelist, playwright.	My Brilliant Career, All That Swagger, On Dearborn Street, My Career Goes Bung
W. J. Gruffydd	United Kingdom	14 February 1881	29 September 1954	scholar, poet, editor.	Lyrics
Oswald de Andrade	Brazil	11 January 1890	22 October 1954	novelist, playwright, poet, cultural critic.	Manifesto Antropófago (Anthropophagist Manifesto), Manifesto Pau-Brasil (Manifesto of Pau-Brasil Poetry)
Ludovic Dauș	Romania	1 October 1873	17 November 1954	novelist, playwright, poet, translator.	Unto Death, Akmiutis, Eglà
Lucien Tesnière	France	13 May 1893	6 December 1954	linguist.	Elements of Structural Syntax, Petite grammaire russe
James Hilton	United Kingdom	9 September 1900	20 December 1954	novelist, screenwriter.	Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Random Harvest

Entering the public domain in the United States

See also: 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

• 1934 in literature and 1954 in literature for deaths of writers
• Public Domain Day
• Creative Commons