2032 in public domain

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 2032 under the most common copyright regimes.

This list is based on current copyright laws and regulations, which are subject to change without notice.

Countries with life + 70 years

See also: Creators whose works entered the public domain in countries with life + 50 years in 2012

Except for Belarus (Life + 50 years) 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. In addition, several other countries 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
Roussan Camille	Haiti	1912	7 December 1961	Poet, journalist
Joanna Cannan	United Kingdom	1896	22 April 1961	Writer, detective novelist
Louis-Ferdinand Céline	France	1894	1 July 1961	Novelist, pamphleteer
Blaise Cendrars	Switzerland	1887	21 January 1961	Novelist, poet
Hilda Doolittle	United States	1886	27 September 1961	Poet, novelist, memoirist
Mazo de la Roche	Canada	1879	12 July 1961	Novelist
Gertrude Minnie Faulding	United Kingdom	1875	26 December 1961	Children's writer and novelist
Jessie Redmon Fauset	United States	1882	30 April 1961	Editor, writer, educator
Olga Forsh	Russia	1873	17 July 1961	Dramatist, novelist, memoirist
Leonhard Frank	Germany	1882	18 August 1961	Writer
Dashiell Hammett	United States	1894	10 January 1961	Crime writer, screenwriter
Hazel Heald	United States	1896	4 February 1961	Pulp fiction writer
Ernest Hemingway	United States	1899	2 July 1961	Novelist
George S. Kaufman	United States	1889	2 June 1961	Dramatist, critic
Oliver Onions	United Kingdom	1873	9 April 1961	Novelist, ghost story writer
E. Arnot Robertson	United Kingdom	1903	18 March 1961	Novelist
Mihail Sadoveanu	Romania	1880	19 October 1961	Novelist
Peyami Safa	Turkey	1899	15 June 1961	Journalist, writer
Clark Ashton Smith	United States	1893	14 August 1961	Writer
Dorothy Thompson	United States	1893	30 January 1961	Journalist
James Thurber	United States	1894	2 November 1961	Humorist
William Troy	United States	1903	26 May 1961	Writer, educator

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.

Countries with life + 80 years

See also: Works that entered the public domain in countries with life + 70 years in 2022

Spain has a copyright term of life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988. In Colombia and Equatorial Guinea, a work enters the public domain 80 years after the creator's death.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Louis Adamic	United States	23 March 1898	4 September 1951	Writer	Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America
Bartlett Adamson	Australia	22 December 1884	4 November 1951	Journalist, writer, and political activist
Jyoti Prasad Agarwala	India	17 June 1903	17 January 1951	Film director, playwright, writer	Joymoti
Choudhry Rahmat Ali	Pakistan	16 November 1897	3 February 1951	Jurist	Pakistan Declaration
Muhammad Ali	India	1874	13 October 1951	Writer
Egbert Van Alstyne	United States	4 March 1878	9 July 1951	Composer	"In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree", "Pretty Baby"
Aram Andonian	Armenia	1875	23 December 1951	Writer	The Memoirs of Naim Bey
Leopold Andrian	Austria	9 May 1875	19 November 1951	Writer
Henry W. Armstrong	United States	22 July 1879	28 February 1951	Composer	Sweet Adeline
Numa Ayrinhac	Argentina	5 September 1881	23 March 1951	Painter
Resurrección María de Azkue	Spain	5 August 1864	9 November 1951	Writer
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar	Iran	10 December 1886	22 April 1951	Poet
R. H. Barlow	United States	18 May 1918	2 January 1951	Writer, anthropologist
Sarah Jane Baines	Australia	30 November 1866	20 February 1951	Feminist, suffragette, social reformer
Jacques de Baroncelli	France	25 June 1881	12 January 1951	Film director
Gaspar Agüero Barreras	Cuba	15 February 1873	18 May 1951	Pianist, composer
Pramathesh Barua	India	24 October 1903	29 November 1951	Film director, actor, writer
Daisy Bates	Australia	16 October 1859	18 April 1951	Journalist, welfare worker
Celadet Alî Bedirxan	Turkey	26 April 1893	1951	Writer, linguist
Frank Weston Benson	United States	24 March 1862	15 November 1951	Painter	List of works by Frank Weston Benson
Jørgen Bentzon	Denmark	14 February 1897	9 July 1951	Composer
Konstantin Biebl	Czech Republic	26 February 1898	12 November 1951	Poet
Leo Birinski	Germany	8 June 1884	23 October 1951	Playwright, screenwriter, film director
Dorothea Foster Black	Australia	23 December 1891	13 September 1951	Painter and printmaker
Algernon Blackwood	United Kingdom	14 March 1869	10 December 1951	Journalist, writer	Incredible Adventures, "The Willows", "The Wendigo" and The Doll and One Other
Francisco Boix	Spain	31 August 1920	7 July 1951	Photographer	Photographs of Mauthausen concentration camp
Ivanoe Bonomi	Italy	18 October 1873	20 April 1951	Politician
Stephen Bonsal	United States	29 March 1865	8 June 1951	Journalist, writer
Tadeusz Borowski	Poland	12 November 1922	3 July 1951	Writer, journalist
Herman Charles Bosman	South Africa	5 February 1905	14 October 1951	Writer
Alfred-Alphonse Bottiau	France	6 February 1889	25 February 1951	Sculptor
James Bridie	Scotland	3 January 1888	29 January 1951	Playwright, screenwriter, physician
Hermann Broch	Austria	1 November 1886	30 May 1951	Writer	The Sleepwalkers, The Death of Virgil
Gelett Burgess	United States	30 January 1866	18 September 1951	Writer	"Purple Cow"
Abraham Cahan	United States	7 July 1860	31 August 1951	Writer	The Rise of David Levinsky
Andrew Caldecott	United Kingdom	26 October 1884	14 July 1951	Writer and British colonial administrator
Amy Carmichael	Ireland	16 December 1867	18 January 1951	Writer
John Alden Carpenter	United States	28 February 1876	26 April 1951	Composer
Ethel Carrick	Australia	7 February 1872	17 June 1951	Artist
Émile Chartier	France	3 March 1868	2 June 1951	Writer
Alphonse de Châteaubriant	France	25 March 1877	2 May 1951	Writer	Monsieur des Lourdines, La Brière
Peter Cheyney	United Kingdom	22 February 1896	26 June 1951	Writer	Lemmy Caution, Slim Callaghan
Ben Chifley	Australia	22 September 1885	13 June 1951	Politician
Cho Ki-chon	North Korea	6 November 1913	31 July 1951	Poet
Gendün Chöphel	Tibet	1903	1951	Writer, poet
Al Christie	Canada	23 October 1881	14 April 1951	Film director
Halfdan Cleve	Norway	5 October 1879	6 April 1951	Composer
Christabel Cockerell	United Kingdom	1864	18 March 1951	Painter
Edith Coleman	Australia	29 July 1874	3 June 1951	Naturalist
Gustav Cords	Germany	12 October 1870	18 February 1951	Composer
Cara David	Australia	26 April 1856	25 December 1951	Educator, feminist, social reformer
Wilfrid de Glehn	United Kingdom	1870	11 May 1951	Painter
Nirupama Devi	India	7 May 1883	7 January 1951	Writer
Enrique Santos Discépolo	Argentina	27 March 1901	23 December 1951	Composer, director
Hans Andrias Djurhuus	Faroe Islands	20 October 1883	6 May 1951	Poet, writer
Lloyd C. Douglas	United States	27 August 1877	13 February 1951	Writer, pastor	Magnificent Obsession, The Robe
Georgios Drossinis	Greece	9 December 1859	3 January 1951	Writer
Frank DuMond	United States	20 August 1865	6 February 1951	Illustrator, painter
József Egry	Hungary	1883	1951	Painter
Mário Eloy	Portugal	15 March 1900	5 September 1951	Painter
Anastasia Eristavi-Khoshtaria	Georgia	3 February 1868	1 May 1951	Writer
John Erskine	United States	5 October 1879	2 June 1951	Writer, composer	The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent
'Abd al-'Aziz Fahmi	Egypt	23 December 1870	1951	Poet
Georgy Fedotov	Russia	1 October 1886	1 September 1951	Writer
Fei Mu	China	10 October 1906	31 January 1951	Film director	Spring in a Small Town
Jerzy Fitelberg	United States	20 May 1903	25 April 1951	Composer
Kristo Floqi	Albania	24 May 1876	1 July 1951	Playwright, politician
John Flynn	Australia	25 November 1880	5 May 1951	Minister, aviator
Josef Bohuslav Foerster	Czech Republic	30 December 1859	29 May 1951	Composer	List of compositions by Josef Bohuslav Foerster
Robert J. Flaherty	United States	16 February 1884	23 July 1951	Filmmaker	Nanook of the North
Pietro Frosini	Italy	9 August 1885	2 September 1951	Musician, composer
Gao Jianfu	China	1879	1951	Painter
André Gide	France	22 November 1869	19 February 1951	Writer	Bibliography of André Gide
Bert Grant	United States	12 July 1878	9 May 1951	Composer
María Grever	Mexico	14 September 1885	15 December 1951	Composer	"What a Diff'rence a Day Makes"
René Guenon	France	15 November 1886	7 January 1951	Philosopher and Sufi Scholar	The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
Jacinto Guerrero	Spain	16 August 1895	15 September 1951	Composer
James Norman Hall	United States	22 April 1887	5 July 1951	Writer	Mutiny on the Bounty
Ebbe Hamerik	Denmark	5 September 1898	12 August 1951	Composer
Tamiki Hara	Japan	15 November 1905	13 March 1951	Writer	Summer Flower
Fumiko Hayashi	Japan	31 December 1903	28 June 1951	Writer	Bangiku
Józef Hecht	Poland	14 December 1891	19 June 1951	Printmaker, painter
Sadegh Hedayat	Iran	17 February 1903	9 April 1951	Writer, poet	The Blind Owl, The Stray Dog
Thomas N. Heffron	United States	13 June 1872	24 May 1951	Film director
Herman Hupfeld	United States	1 February 1894	8 June 1951	Songwriter	"As Time Goes By", "Let's Put Out the Lights (and Go to Sleep)"
Jenő Illés	Hungary	28 January 1879	17 October 1951	Film director
Ernest Ludvig Ipsen	United States	5 September 1869	2 November 1951	Painter
George Jeske	United States	22 February 1891	28 October 1951	Film director
Tor Jonsson	Norway	14 May 1916	14 January 1951	Poet
Gustave-Henri Jossot	France	16 April 1866	7 April 1951	Illustrator, painter
Robert Kahn	Germany	21 July 1865	29 May 1951	Composer
Alfrēds Kalniņš	Latvia	23 August 1879	23 December 1951	Composer
Karl Maria Kaufmann	Germany	2 March 1872	6 February 1951	Archeologist
Kim Dong-in	Korea	2 October 1900	5 January 1951	Writer
Kim Myeong-sun	Korea	20 January 1896	22 June 1951	Writer
Kitawaki Noboru	Japan	4 June 1901	18 December 1951	Painter
Tyra Kleen	Sweden	29 June 1874	17 September 1951	Writer
Georg af Klercker	Sweden	15 December 1877	13 November 1951	Film director	South of the Highway
Katarzyna Kobro	Poland	26 January 1898	21 February 1951	Avant-garde sculptor
Alexander Krein	Soviet Union	20 October 1883	25 April 1951	Composer
Kwee Tek Hoay	Indonesia	31 July 1886	4 July 1951	Writer	List of works by Kwee Tek Hoay
Constant Lambert	United Kingdom	23 August 1905	21 August 1951	Composer	List of compositions by Constant Lambert
Louis Lavelle	France	15 July 1883	1 September 1951	Philosopher
Ernestina Lecuona	Cuba	16 January 1882	3 September 1951	Pianist, composer
Henri-René Lenormand	France	3 May 1882	16 February 1951	Playwright
Sinclair Lewis	United States	7 February 1885	10 January 1951	Writer	Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith
J. C. Leyendecker	United States	23 March 1874	25 July 1951	Illustrator	The Arrow Collar Man
Heinz von Lichberg	Germany	1890	14 March 1951	Writer	"Lolita"
Ana Aurora do Amaral Lisboa (pt)	Brazil	24 September 1860	22 March 1951	Poet
Benito Lynch	Argentina	25 July 1885	23 December 1951	Writer	The Caranchos of Florida, The Englishman of the Bones, The Romance of a Gaucho
Richard Malden	United Kingdom	19 October 1879	19 August 1951	Biblical scholar, editor, author of ghost stories
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim	Finland	4 June 1867	27 January 1951	Politician, memoirist
Homero Manzi	Argentina	1 November 1907	3 May 1951	Writer
Edwin L. Marin	United States	21 February 1899	2 May 1951	Film director
Konstantin Märska	Estonia	28 May 1896	30 August 1951	Film director
Nellie McClung	Canada	20 October 1873	1 September 1951	Writer
Nikolai Medtner	Russia	5 January 1880	13 November 1951	Composer	List of compositions by Nikolai Medtner
Oscar Micheaux	United States	2 January 1884	25 March 1951	Writer, director
Hasrat Mohani	India	14 October 1875	13 May 1951	Independence activist, poet
Giuseppe Mulè	Italy	28 June 1885	10 September 1951	Composer
Takashi Nagai	Japan	3 February 1908	1 May 1951	Writer	The Bells of Nagasaki
Nam Cao	Vietnam	1915	1951	Writer
Ștefan Neaga	Moldova	7 December 1900	30 May 1951	Composer	Anthem of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
Ndoc Nikaj	Albania	15 June 1864	16 January 1951	Writer
Ivor Novello	United Kingdom	15 January 1893	6 March 1951	Composer	"Keep the Home Fires Burning"
Selim Palmgren	Finland	16 February 1878	13 December 1951	Composer, pianist
Pyotr Pavlenko	Soviet Union	11 July 1899	16 June 1951	Writer
Scott Pembroke	United States	13 September 1889	21 February 1951	Film director
Brian Penton	Australia	21 August 1904	24 August 1951	Journalist, novelist	Landtakers
Felix Petyrek	Austria	14 May 1892	1 December 1951	Composer
Andrei Platonov	Soviet Union	28 August 1899	5 January 1951	Writer	The Foundation Pit
Ľudmila Podjavorinská	Slovakia	26 April 1872	2 March 1951	Writer, poet
Clara Katharina Pollaczek	Austria	15 January 1875	22 July 1951	Writer
Voydan Popgeorgiev – Chernodrinski	Bulgaria	15 January 1875	8 January 1951	Playwright, writer	Macedonian Blood Wedding
George Henry Powell	United Kingdom	27 April 1880	3 December 1951	Songwriter	"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag"
Paula von Preradović	Austria	12 October 1887	25 May 1951	Writer	National anthem of Austria
James Peter Quinn	Australia	4 December 1869	18 February 1951	Painter
Assen Razcvetnikov	Bulgaria	2 November 1897	30 July 1951	Writer
Godofredo Rangel	Brazil	21 November 1884	4 August 1951	Writer, translator
Gholamreza Rashid-Yasemi	Iran	1895	1951	Poet
Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy	India	10 December 1880	24 February 1951	Educator, writer
Henri Rivière	France	11 March 1864	24 August 1951	Painter
Sigmund Romberg	United States	29 July 1887	9 November 1951	Composer
Phil Rosen	United States	8 May 1888	22 October 1951	Film director
Georges Hanna Sabbagh	France	1877	1951	Painter
Pedro Salinas	Spain	27 November 1891	4 December 1951	Poet
Harry Schmidt	Germany	21 June 1894	7 September 1951	Mathematician
Artur Schnabel	Austria	17 April 1882	15 August 1951	Classical pianist, composer	Artur Schnabel's recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas
Arnold Schoenberg	Austria United States	13 September 1874	13 July 1951	Composer, music theorist	List of compositions by Arnold Schoenberg
Percival Serle	Australia	18 July 1871	16 December 1951	Writer
Robert Seton-Watson	United Kingdom	20 August 1879	25 July 1951	Historian
Levon Shant	Armenia	6 April 1869	29 November 1951	Playwright
Angelos Sikelianos	Greece	28 March 1884	19 June 1951	Poet, playwright
S. Sylvan Simon	United States	9 March 1910	17 May 1951	Film director
Houcine Slaoui	Morocco	1921	1951	Musician
John Sloan	United States	2 August 1871	7 September 1951	Painter
Pamela Colman Smith	United Kingdom	16 February 1878	18 September 1951	Illustrator	Rider–Waite tarot deck
Henry De Vere Stacpoole	Ireland	9 April 1863	12 April 1951	Writer	The Blue Lagoon
Paul L. Stein	Austria	4 February 1892	2 May 1951	Film director
Arthur Szyk	Poland	16 June 1894	13 September 1951	Illustrator
Abanindranath Tagore	India	7 August 1871	5 December 1951	Painter, writer
Maila Talvio	Finland	17 October 1871	6 January 1951	Writer
Mary Tannahill	United States	11 January 1863	21 June 1951	Painter
Nikoghayos Tigranian	Armenia	31 August 1856	17 February 1951	Composer
Timrava	Slovakia	2 October 1867	27 November 1951	Writer
Marcel Tournier	France	5 January 1879	8 May 1951	Composer
Walter Trier	Germany	25 June 1890	8 July 1951	Illustrator	Illustration of Emil and the Detectives and Lilliput covers
Manuel Ugarte	Argentina	1875	1951	Writer
Jan Valtin	Germany	4 May 1907	14 January 1951	Writer, covert agent
Maxence Van der Meersch	France	4 May 1907	14 January 1951	Writer
Vsevolod Vishnevsky	Soviet Union	21 December 1900	28 February 1951	Playwright
Henrik Visnapuu	Estonia	2 January 1890	3 April 1951	Poet
Will Vodery	United States	8 October 1885	18 November 1951	Composer
Volodymyr Vynnychenko	Ukraine	28 July 1880	6 March 1951	Writer, playwright
Richard Wallace	United States	26 August 1894	3 November 1951	Film director
Jean-Jacques Waltz	France	23 February 1873	10 June 1951	Illustrator
Nik Welter	Luxembourg	2 January 1871	13 July 1951	Writer
Ludwig Wittgenstein	Austria United Kingdom	26 April 1889	29 April 1951	Philosopher	Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations
Wols	Germany	27 May 1913	1 September 1951	Painter, photographer
Gregorios Xenopoulos	Greece	9 December 1867	14 January 1951	Writer
Miyamoto Yuriko	Japan	13 February 1899	21 January 1951	Writer
Corrado Zoli	Italy	3 January 1877	8 December 1951	Writer
Hermynia Zur Mühlen	Austria	12 December 1883	20 March 1951	Writer, translator

United States

Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1936, films released in 1936, and other works published in 1936 will enter the public domain in 2032. Sound recordings published in 1931 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1961 will also enter the public domain.

Notable films entering the public domain in 2032 include Best Picture Academy Award winner The Great Ziegfeld with William Powell and Luise Rainer, the Alfred Hitchcock film Secret Agent, the John Ford films Mary of Scotland and The Prisoner of Shark Island, Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town with Gary Cooper, The Story of Louis Pasteur with Paul Muni, Mervyn LeRoy's Anthony Adverse with Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland, George Cukor's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet with Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard, William Wyler's Dodsworth with Walter Huston, Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film Fury with Spencer Tracy and Bruce Cabot, San Francisco with Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald, Cecil B. DeMille's The Plainsman with Cooper and Jean Arthur, Swing Time with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Charlie Chaplin's final film Modern Times, Judy Garland's debut film Pigskin Parade, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon Thru the Mirror and Silly Symphony short The Country Cousin, and the Merrie Melodies short I Love to Singa.

Among the literary works that will enter the public domain are Daphne du Maurier's novel Jamaica Inn; Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind; Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mystery novels The A. B. C. Murders, Cards on the Table and Murder in Mesopotamia; William Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom!; John Dos Passos' The Big Money; Hergé's Tintin story The Blue Lotus in its original French black-and-white version; and the first issues of Life magazine.

See also

• List of American films of 1936
• 1936 in literature
• 1936 in music
• 1961 in literature and 1981 in literature for deaths of writers
• Public Domain Day
• Creative Commons

External links

• Popular Books of 1936 at Goodreads