2033 in public domain
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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 2033 under the most common copyright regimes.
Countries with life + 70 years
[edit]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.
Countries with life + 50 years
[edit]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.
Countries with life + 80 years
[edit]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.
United States
[edit]Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1937, films released in 1937, and other works published in 1937 will enter the public domain in 2033.[5] Sound recordings published in 1932 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1962 will also enter the public domain.
The most famous work to enter the U.S. public domain in 2033 is Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated feature produced in the United States. Other significant animated films entering the public domain this year include Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoons Clock Cleaners and Lonesome Ghosts as well as Donald Duck's and Pluto's first solo cartoons, the Silly Symphony short The Old Mill, and the cartoons Porky's Duck Hunt and Little Red Walking Hood which respectively marked the debuts of Looney Tunes characters Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd.
Notable live-action films entering the public domain include Best Picture Academy Award winner The Life of Emile Zola starring Paul Muni, The Awful Truth with Irene Dunn and Cary Grant, Victor Fleming's adaptation of Captains Courageous with Freddie Bartholomew and Spencer Tracy, Sidney Franklin's The Good Earth with Muni and Luise Rainer, One Hundred Men and a Girl with Leopold Stokowski in one of his two film appearances, Frank Tuttle's Waikiki Wedding starring Bing Crosby and Shirley Ross, the Alfred Hitchcock film Young and Innocent, the John Ford films Wee Willie Winkie and The Hurricane, Frank Capra's adaptation of Lost Horizon, the Laurel and Hardy comedy Way Out West, Shall We Dance with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the Marx Brothers comedy A Day at the Races, George Stevens' A Damsel in Distress starring Astaire alongside Burns and Allen, William Wyler's Dead End, Gregory La Cava's Stage Door starring Rogers and Katharine Hepburn, Conquest with Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer, Maytime with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Broadway Melody of 1938 which marked the breakthrough of Judy Garland, and Jean Harlow's final film Saratoga (co-starring Clark Gable).
Significant literary works that will enter the public domain include John Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men, Stephen Vincent Benét's post-apocalyptic short story By the Waters of Babylon (under its original title The Place of the Gods), J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Hobbit, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mystery novels Death on the Nile and Dumb Witness, Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Paul Green's play The Lost Colony, Dr. Seuss's first book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, and Hergé's Tintin story The Broken Ear in its original French black-and-white version. 2033 will also be the first year to see installments of E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre enter the public domain since the 1929 strips entered in 2025.[a] In addition, the character Prince Valiant created by Hal Foster will enter the public domain.
Works of art entering the public domain in 2033 include Pablo Picasso's oil painting Guernica, Joan Miró's The Reaper, and Vera Mukhina's sculpture Worker and Kolkhoz Woman.
Among the popular songs that will enter the public domain are "Sweet Leilani", "Once in a While", "September in the Rain", and "Some Day My Prince Will Come".
See also
[edit]- List of American films of 1937
- 1937 in literature
- 1937 in music
- 1962 in literature and 1982 in literature for deaths of writers
- Public Domain Day
- Creative Commons
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Law 194-3 of 11 August 1998
- ^ "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.
- ^ "EUR-Lex – 32006L0116 – EN – EUR-Lex". eur-lex.europa.eu. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ "Áreas de cultura: Propiedad Intelectual – Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 March 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
- ^ Hirtle, Peter B. (3 January 2020). "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States". Cornell University Library Copyright Information Center. Retrieved 17 December 2020.