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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
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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.
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Names | Country | Birth | Death | Occupation | Notable work |
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Jakob Wassermann | ![]() |
10 March 1873 | 1 January 1934 | novelist. | Melusine, The Maurizius Case, My Life as German and Jew |
Dorothy Edwards | ![]() |
18 August 1902 | 5 January 1934 | novelist, short story writer. | Rhapsody, Winter Sonata |
Andrei Bely | ![]() |
26 October 1880 | 8 January 1934 | novelist, poet, literary critic. | Petersburg, The Silver Dove |
Helen Zimmern | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
19 July 1863 | 15 January 1934 | novelist, playwright, art critic, literary critic. | The Concert, Expressionismus |
Ferenc Móra | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
2 January 1844 | 28 February 1934 | poet. | Poems, A Basket of Fragments, From Height to Height |
Thomas Anstey Guthrie | ![]() |
8 August 1856 | 10 March 1934 | comic novelist, parodist, humorist. | Vice Versa, The Man from Blankley's, The Tinted Venus |
Safvet-beg Bašagić | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
24 July 1879 | 12 April 1934 | journalist, newspaper editor, publisher. | founder of Smith's Weekly and the Daily Guardian |
Paul Zarifopol | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
2 March 1866 | 14 June 1934 | poet, novelist, translator. | Park: A Fantastic Story, Silverpoints, Spiritual Poems, chiefly done out of several languages |
Thorne Smith | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
27 August 1866 | 26 June 1934 | historian, Sinologist. | Nara |
Fritz Gerlich | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
9 January 1873 | 4 July 1934 | poet, essayist, translator, publisher, folklorist. | In the City of Slaughter, Sefer HaAggadah |
Julian Hawthorne | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
9 September 1868 | 13 August 1934 | nature writer, playwright. | The Land of Little Rain, The Arrow Maker, Taos Pueblo |
Rebecca Richardson Joslin | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
24 May 1855 | 23 November 1934 | playwright, actor. | The Magistrate, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, Trelawny of the "Wells", The Gay Lord Quex |
Gustave Lanson | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
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 |
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Entered the public domain in countries with life + 50 years
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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.
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Names | Country | Birth | Death | Occupation | Notable work |
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Alexander Abasheli | ![]() |
27 August 1884 | 27 September 1954 | Writer | A Woman in the Mirror [ka] |
Sait Faik Abasıyanık | ![]() |
18 November 1906 | 11 May 1954 | Writer | Semaver |
Ahmed Agdamski | ![]() |
5 January 1884 | 1 April 1954 | Singer | If Not That One, Then This One |
Franco Alfano | ![]() |
8 March 1875 | 27 October 1954 | Composer | List of operas by Franco Alfano |
Juan Álvarez | ![]() |
3 September 1878 | 8 April 1954 | Historian | Essay on the history of Santa Fe |
Maximiano Alves | ![]() |
22 August 1888 | 22 January 1954 | Sculptor | Selected works |
Ahmad Amin | ![]() |
1 October 1886 | 30 May 1954 | Writer | Dawn of Islam |
Martin Andersen Nexø | ![]() |
26 June 1869 | 1 June 1954 | Writer | Pelle the Conqueror |
Oswald de Andrade | ![]() |
11 January 1890 | 22 October 1954 | Writer | Manifesto Antropófago |
Bruno Angoletta | ![]() |
7 September 1889 | 7 January 1954 | Cartoonist | Marmittone |
Peter van Anrooy | ![]() |
13 October 1879 | 31 December 1954 | Composer | Piet Hein Rhapsodie voor symfonieorkest |
John L. Balderston | ![]() |
22 October 1889 | 8 March 1954 | Playwright | Berkeley Square, Dracula |
Lionel Barrymore | ![]() |
28 April 1878 | 15 November 1954 | Actor, film director | Lionel Barrymore on stage, screen and radio |
Constantin Beldie | ![]() |
8 September 1887 | 11 June 1954 | Journalist, writer | Gloss on the Bookish Spirit |
Jacinto Benavente | ![]() |
12 August 1866 | 14 July 1954 | Writer | The Unloved Woman |
Frans G. Bengtsson | ![]() |
4 October 1894 | 19 December 1954 | Writer | The Long Ships |
Maxwell Bodenheim | ![]() |
26 May 1892 | 6 February 1954 | novelist, poet, memoirist, journalist. | My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village |
Hakon Børresen | ![]() |
2 June 1876 | 6 October 1954 | Composer | Den Kongelige Gæst |
Vitaliano Brancati | ![]() |
24 July 1907 | 25 September 1954 | Writer | Don Giovanni in Sicilia |
Roman Bratkowski [uk] | ![]() ![]() |
2 September 1869 | 5 September 1954 | Painter | Pejzaż zimowy |
Walter Braunfels | ![]() |
19 December 1882 | 19 March 1954 | Composer | Die Vögel |
Pauline Brunius | ![]() |
2 October 1881 | 30 March 1954 | Actress, film director | False Greta |
Claude Cahun | ![]() |
25 October 1894 | 8 December 1954 | Photographer, writer | Disavowals or Cancelled Confessions |
Robert Capa | ![]() |
22 October 1913 | 25 May 1954 | Photographer | The Falling Soldier |
Enrico Cavacchioli [it] | ![]() |
15 March 1885 | 4 January 1954 | Writer | List of works by Enrico Cavacchioli [it] |
Papa Celestin | ![]() |
1 January 1884 | 15 December 1954 | Musician | Papa Celestin's Golden Wedding |
E. K. Chambers | ![]() |
16 March 1866 | 21 January 1954 | Literary scholar | The Elizabethan Stage |
Dmytro Chornovil [uk] | ![]() |
7 November 1902 | 8 March 1954 | Architect | State Academic Music Drama Theatre in Vinnytsia [uk] |
Eugen Coca | ![]() |
15 April 1893 | 9 January 1954 | Composer | Maria's Fortune |
Colette | ![]() |
28 January 1873 | 3 August 1954 | Writer | Gigi |
Julian Coolidge | ![]() |
28 September 1873 | 5 March 1954 | Mathematician | A Treatise on the Circle and the Sphere |
Duff Cooper | ![]() |
22 February 1890 | 1 January 1954 | Politician, historian | Old Men Forget |
Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha | ![]() |
13 October 1869 | 23 November 1954 | Socialite | Doida, Não! |
Stig Dagerman | ![]() |
5 October 1923 | 4 November 1954 | Writer, journalist | A Burnt Child |
Jibanananda Das | ![]() |
17 February 1899 | 22 October 1954 | Poet | Banalata Sen |
Ludovic Dauș | ![]() |
1 October 1873 | 17 November 1954 | Writer, translator | Unto Death |
Russell Davenport | ![]() |
1899 | 19 April 1954 | Writer | My Country, A Poem of America |
Alcide De Gasperi | ![]() |
3 April 1881 | 19 August 1954 | Politician | Nella lotta per la democrazia |
Danylo Demutskyi [uk] | ![]() |
16 July 1893 | 7 May 1954 | Photographer, camera operator | Earth |
André Derain | ![]() |
10 June 1880 | 8 September 1954 | Painter, sculptor | Mountains at Collioure |
Leonard Eugene Dickson | ![]() |
22 January 1874 | 17 January 1954 | Mathematician, writer | History of the Theory of Numbers |
Nadiya Dobrovolska-Zavadska | ![]() ![]() |
25 September 1878 | 31 October 1954 | Geneticist | Sur la mortification spontanée de la queue chez la souris nouveau-née et sur l'existence d'un caractère (facteur) héréditaire "non-viable" |
Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski | ![]() |
6 June 1872 | 27 April 1954 | Geophysicist | Historia naturalna lodu |
Oles Donchenko [uk] | ![]() |
19 August 1902 | 12 April 1954 | Writer | Star Fortress |
Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin | ![]() ![]() |
17 May 1874 | 25 August 1954 | Photographer | |
Carl Eldh | ![]() |
10 May 1873 | 26 January 1954 | Sculptor | The Branting Monument |
Enrico Fermi | ![]() ![]() |
29 September 1901 | 28 November 1954 | Physicist | Publications |
Arthur Fickenscher | ![]() |
9 March 1885 | 15 April 1954 | Composer and academic | Willowwood |
Bud Fisher | ![]() |
3 April 1885 | 7 September 1954 | Cartoonist | Mutt and Jeff |
Constantin Font [fr] | ![]() |
11 January 1890 | 25 January 1954 | Painter | |
Miles Franklin | ![]() |
14 October 1879 | 19 September 1954 | Writer | My Brilliant Career |
Wilhelm Furtwängler | ![]() |
25 January 1886 | 30 November 1954 | Conductor, composer | Symphony No. 2 |
Jacques Gachot | ![]() ![]() |
11 January 1885 | 15 December 1954 | Painter | Paintings by Jacques Gachot |
Nina Genke-Meller | ![]() |
19 March 1893 | 25 August 1954 | Painter | Suprematist Composition |
E. Ray Goetz | ![]() |
12 June 1886 | 12 June 1954 | Composer, lyricist | "For Me and My Gal" |
Lil Green | ![]() |
22 December 1901 | 14 April 1954 | Singer, songwriter | "Why Don't You Do Right?", "Romance in the Dark" |
W. J. Gruffydd | ![]() |
14 February 1881 | 29 September 1954 | Writer, scholar | Lyrics |
Heinz Guderian | ![]() |
17 June 1888 | 14 May 1954 | Military officer, writer | Achtung – Panzer!, Panzer Leader |
Niqula Haddad | ![]() |
1878 | 1954 | Writer | |
Thea von Harbou | ![]() |
27 December 1888 | 1 July 1954 | Writer, film director | List of works by Thea von Harbou |
Jack Harvey | ![]() |
16 September 1881 | 9 November 1954 | Film director | A Dog's Love |
Ferenc Herczeg | ![]() |
22 September 1863 | 24 February 1954 | Writer | A Gyurkovics-lányok |
James Hilton | ![]() |
9 September 1900 | 20 December 1954 | Writer | Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon |
Ludwik Hirszfeld | ![]() |
5 August 1884 | 7 March 1954 | Microbiologist | Über Vererbung gruppenspezifischer Strukturen des Blutes |
Earnest Hooton | ![]() |
20 November 1887 | 3 May 1954 | Anthropologist, cartoonist | Up From The Ape |
Ostap Hrytsai [uk] | ![]() ![]() |
2 November 1881 | 7 May 1954 | Writer, translator | The Escape of Oleksa Perkhun |
Raymond Hubbell | ![]() |
1 June 1879 | 13 December 1954 | Composer, lyricist | "Poor Butterfly" |
Ivan Ilyin | ![]() ![]() |
9 April 1883 | 21 December 1954 | Philosopher | Resistance to Evil By Force [ru] |
Charles Ives | ![]() |
20 October 1874 | 19 May 1954 | Composer | List of compositions by Charles Ives |
Ayaz İshaki | ![]() ![]() |
22 February 1878 | 22 July 1954 | Writer | Mullah's Wife [tt] |
Norbert Jacques | ![]() |
6 June 1880 | 15 May 1954 | Writer | Dr. Mabuse |
Hans Janowitz | ![]() |
2 December 1890 | 25 May 1954 | Screenwriter | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari |
Arthur Johnston | ![]() |
10 January 1898 | 1 May 1954 | Composer | "Cocktails for Two", "Pennies from Heaven" |
Frida Kahlo | ![]() |
6 July 1907 | 13 July 1954 | Painter | List of paintings by Frida Kahlo |
Mikhas Klimkovich | ![]() |
20 November 1899 | 5 November 1954 | Poet | "My Belarusy" |
Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius | ![]() |
19 October 1882 | 17 July 1954 | Writer, politician | Skirgaila |
Kalki Krishnamurthy | ![]() |
9 September 1899 | 5 December 1954 | Writer | Ponniyin Selvan |
Zygmunt Kurczyński [pl] | ![]() |
2 April 1886 | 11 March 1954 | Sculptor | Grave of Tadeusz Rutowski |
Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels | ![]() |
17 September 1874 | 20 April 1954 | Political theorist | Ostara |
Henri Laurens | ![]() |
18 February 1885 | 5 May 1954 | Sculptor | L'Amphion |
Alphonse Laverrière | ![]() |
16 May 1872 | 11 March 1954 | Architect | Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery |
Édouard Le Roy | ![]() |
18 June 1870 | 10 November 1954 | Philosopher, mathematician | Les Origines humaines et l'évolution de l'intelligence |
Alain LeRoy Locke | ![]() |
13 September 1885 | 9 June 1954 | Writer | The New Negro |
Pyotr Leshchenko | ![]() ![]() |
14 June 1898 | 16 July 1954 | Singer | Heart |
Achille Longo | ![]() |
28 March 1900 | 28 May 1954 | Composer | Compositions |
Gino Loria | ![]() |
19 May 1862 | 30 January 1954 | Mathematician | Books |
Auguste Lumière | ![]() |
19 October 1862 | 10 April 1954 | Film director | Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory |
Wincenty Lutosławski | ![]() |
6 June 1863 | 28 December 1954 | Philosopher | The Polish Nation |
Jan Maklakiewicz | ![]() |
24 November 1899 | 8 February 1954 | Composer | Cagliostro in Warsaw |
Ivan Malozyomov [uk] | ![]() |
8 October 1899 | 19 November 1954 | Architect | Interiors of Derzhprom |
William March | ![]() |
18 September 1893 | 15 May 1954 | Writer | Company K |
Santiago Martínez Delgado | ![]() |
1906 | 1954 | Painter, sculptor, art historian | Mural at the Colombian Capitol |
Henri Matisse | ![]() |
31 December 1869 | 3 November 1954 | Painter, sculptor | List of works by Henri Matisse |
Joe May | ![]() |
7 November 1880 | 29 April 1954 | Film director | Stuart Webbs |
George McManus | ![]() |
23 January 1884 | 22 October 1954 | Cartoonist | Bringing Up Father |
Emilis Melngailis | ![]() ![]() |
15 February 1874 | 10 December 1954 | Composer | Maija (Turaidas roze) |
Mihri Müşfik Hanım | ![]() |
26 February 1886 | 1954 | Painter | |
Zofia Nałkowska | ![]() |
10 November 1884 | 17 December 1954 | Writer | Medallions |
Herms Niel | ![]() |
17 April 1888 | 16 July 1954 | Composer | "Erika" |
Aleksandr Orlov | ![]() |
6 April 1880 | 28 January 1954 | Astronomer | Selected works in 3 volumes |
Yukio Ozaki | ![]() |
24 December 1858 | 6 October 1954 | Politician | The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan |
Auguste Perret | ![]() |
12 February 1874 | 25 February 1954 | Architect | Théâtre des Champs-Élysées |
Washington Phillips | ![]() |
11 January 1880 | 20 September 1954 | Singer | List of songs recorded by Washington Phillips |
Dimitrie Pompeiu | ![]() |
4 October 1873 | 8 October 1954 | Mathematician | Sur la continuité des fonctions de variables complexes |
Fred Raymond | ![]() |
20 April 1900 | 10 January 1954 | Composer | "I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg", Maske in Blau |
Yuri Repin [fr] | ![]() ![]() |
10 April 1877 | 9 August 1954 | Painter | Tyurenchen. Eternal life in a glorious death |
Grantland Rice | ![]() |
1 November 1880 | 13 July 1954 | Sportswriter | Songs of the Stalwart |
Fred Rose | ![]() |
24 August 1898 | 1 December 1954 | Songwriter | "Be Honest with Me" |
Leon Schiller | ![]() |
14 March 1887 | 25 March 1954 | Screenwriter | Pastorale (play) [pl] |
Dmytro Sheludko [de] | ![]() ![]() |
21 September 1892 | 5 August 1954 | Diplomat, literary scientist | Zur Geschichte des Natureinganges bei den Trobadors |
C. Fox Smith | ![]() |
1 February 1882 | 8 April 1954 | Writer | All the Way Round: Sea Roads to Africa |
Oscar Straus | ![]() |
6 March 1870 | 11 January 1954 | Composer | Ein Walzertraum |
Ionel Teodoreanu | ![]() |
6 January 1897 | 3 February 1954 | Writer | La Medeleni |
Lucien Tesnière | ![]() |
13 May 1893 | 6 December 1954 | Linguist | Elements of Structural Syntax |
Jan Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz | ![]() ![]() |
24 June 1885 | 18 November 1954 | Diplomat, heraldist | Diariy Getmana Pylypa Orlika |
Alan Turing | ![]() |
23 June 1912 | 7 June 1954 | Mathematician | Turing's proof |
William Van Alen | ![]() |
10 August 1883 | 24 May 1954 | Architect | Chrysler Building |
Getúlio Vargas | ![]() |
19 April 1882 | 24 August 1954 | Politician | Carta Testamento |
Dziga Vertov | ![]() |
2 January 1896 | 12 February 1954 | Film director | Man with a Movie Camera |
Adrien Voisard-Margerie [fr] | ![]() |
28 April 1867 | 20 July 1954 | Painter | Taureaux à l'abreuvoir |
Mykhailo Vozniak [de] | ![]() |
3 October 1881 | 20 November 1954 | Literary scholar | History of Ukrainian literature |
Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen | ![]() |
12 October 1882 | 14 June 1954 | Composer | Oberst Chabert |
Clara Westhoff | ![]() |
21 September 1878 | 9 March 1954 | Sculptor | Bust of Paula Modersohn-Becker |
Eduard Wiiralt | ![]() |
20 March 1898 | 8 January 1954 | Graphic artist | Hell |
Chester Wilmot | ![]() |
21 June 1911 | 10 January 1954 | War Correspondent | The Struggle for Europe |
Hella Wuolijoki | ![]() |
22 July 1886 | 2 February 1954 | Writer | Entäs nyt, Niskavuori? |
Yuriy Yanovskyi | ![]() |
27 August 1902 | 25 February 1954 | Writer | The Horseriders [uk] |
Francis Brett Young | ![]() |
29 June 1884 | 28 March 1954 | Writer | List of novels of Francis Brett Young |
Zhang Shichuan | ![]() |
1890 | 1954 | Film director | Laborer's Love |
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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
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