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When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform. The following is a list of creators whose works enter the public domain in 2030 under the most common copyright regimes.
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This list is based on the current copyright laws and regulations, which are subject to change without notice.
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Countries with life + 70 years
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Except for Belarus (Life + 50 years)[1] and Spain (which has a copyright term of Life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988), a work enters the public domain in Europe 70 years after the creator's death, if it was published during the creator's lifetime.[2][3] In addition, several other countries have a limit of 70 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator.
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Countries with life + 60 years
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In Bangladesh, India, and Venezuela a work enters the public domain 60 years after the creator's death.
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Countries with life + 50 years
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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.
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Countries with life + 80 years
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Spain has a copyright term of life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988.[4] In Colombia and Equatorial Guinea, a work enters the public domain 80 years after the creator's death.
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United States
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Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1934, films released in 1934, and other works published in 1934 will enter the public domain in 2030.[5] Sound recordings published in 1929 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1959 will also enter the public domain.
Two characters from Disney's core animated universe, Donald Duck and Clara Cluck, will enter the public domain in 2030 through their respective debut films, the Silly Symphony cartoon The Wise Little Hen and the Mickey Mouse cartoon Orphan's Benefit (the latter of which also marked the first appearance of Goofy under his familiar identity). Also entering the public domain in 2030 are comic strip characters Secret Agent X-9 and Snuffy Smith.
The most famous feature films entering the public domain in 2030 are Frank Capra's Best Picture Academy Award winner It Happened One Night starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, which is known for its famous hitchhiking scene, and the Laurel and Hardy adaptation of Babes in Toyland (also known under its alternative title March of the Wooden Soldiers). Other notable films entering the public domain in 2030 include Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra, Jean Vigo's L'Atalante, the Alfred Hitchcock films The Man Who Knew Too Much and Waltzes from Vienna, the John Ford films The Lost Patrol, The World Moves On and Judge Priest (the latter starring Will Rogers), Billy Wilder's directorial debute Mauvaise Graine, Sidney Franklin's The Barretts of Wimpole Street starring Norma Shearer and Frederic March, W. S. Van Dyke's The Thin Man and Forsaking All Others, the musical film Stand Up and Cheer! which marked the breakthrough of child actress Shirley Temple, Little Miss Marker (also starring Temple), Victor Fleming's adaptation of Treasure Island, Mark Sandrich's The Gay Divorcee starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Lloyd Bacon's Here Comes the Navy, John M. Stahl's Imitation of Life starring Colbert, Rita Hayworth's debut film Cruz Diablo, Howard Hawks and John Conway's Viva Villa! starring Wallace Beery, Gregory La Cava's The Affairs of Cellini, Raymond Bernard's adaptation of Les Misérables, The Three Stooges' first films in their familiar iteration and for Columbia, and the first Dutch sound film William of Orange.
Notable literary works entering the public domain include the first English translation of The Death Ship, P. G. Wodehouse's novel Thank You, Jeeves and its sequel Right Ho, Jeeves, F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel Tender Is the Night, John Dickson Carr's mystery novel The Plague Court Murders introducing Sir Henry Merrivale, James M. Cain's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, Robert Graves' novel I, Claudius, Henry Miller's novel Tropic of Cancer, Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust, Rex Stout's detective novel Fer-de-Lance introducing Nero Wolfe, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mystery novel Murder on the Orient Express, George Orwell's Burmese Days, the first English translation of Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don, Hergé's Tintin story Cigars of the Pharaoh as a complete album in its original French black-and-white version, and Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour. The first of P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins novels, featuring the more refined version of its titular character, will also enter the public domain.
Works of art entering the public domain include Salvador Dalí's painting The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table, Joan Miró's Woman, Amrita Sher-Gil's painting The Little Girl in Blue, and M. C. Escher's lithograph Still Life with Spherical Mirror.
Popular songs entering the public domain in 2030 include "June In January", "Love In Bloom", "Cocktails for Two", and "The Very Thought Of You". The popular Christmas songs "Winter Wonderland" and "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" will also enter the public domain in 2030; in the former's case, its entry will exclude the more child-friendly revised lyrics (which would later become the second verse) where the snowman is changed from Parson Brown to a circus clown, which did not appear until 1947.
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Marc Sleen Estate
The Marc Sleen Foundation, responsible for the estate of Belgian comic book writer Marc Sleen (1922–2016), announced that they will dissolve as a foundation and place all of his works into the public domain on 1 January 2030 through a CC0 declaration. This includes The Adventures of Nero, Piet Fluwijn en Bolleke, De Lustige Kapoentjes, Doris Dobbel, Oktaaf Keunink, and De Ronde van Frankrijk.[6]
The Marc Sleen Museum in Brussels, also run by the foundation, was sold to the Belgian Comic Strip Center.[7]
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