• Source: 2012 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 2012. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform. Not all works in the public domain have been expired, some works are deliberately donated into the collection for the public good by their owners.




Entering the public domain in Europe


In most European nations with the exception of Belarus, copyright law extends for the life of the author or artist, plus 70 years.




= Authors

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Sherwood Anderson
Gabriel Alomar i Villalonga
Elizabeth von Arnim
Raffaello Bertieri
Simon Dubnow
Adriano Tilgher
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva
Hugh Walpole
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
Tariro Musindo




= Film

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Walter Ruttmann




= Music

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Frank Bridge
Arkady Gaidar
Amalia Guglielminetti
Alter Kacyzne
Gustav Gerson Kahn
Adolf Koczirz
Jelly Roll Morton




= Other notable figures

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Edward Bausch
Henri Bergson
Frederick Banting
Robert Baden-Powell
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum
Louis Brandeis
August Cesarec
Louis-Joseph Chevrolet
Robert Delaunay
James Frazer
Tullio Levi-Civita
Lazar Markovich Lissitzky
George Minne
Gaetano Mosca
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Kole Nedelkovski
Wilhelm II
Petar Poparsov
Giuseppe Rensi
Rabindranath Tagore
Santiago Rusiñol




Brazil


António Cabreira




Entering the 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. If the work is owned by a corporation, then the copyright extends 95 years.
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.
In January 2012, the Supreme Court in a 6-2 decision stated that works in the public domain can have their copyright status renewed.




See also


2007 in public domain
2008 in public domain
2009 in public domain
2010 in public domain
2011 in public domain
2013 in public domain
2013 in public domain
2014 in public domain
2015 in public domain
2016 in public domain
2017 in public domain
2018 in public domain
2019 in public domain
2020 in public domain
2021 in public domain
2022 in public domain
List of countries' copyright lengths
Public Domain Day
Creative Commons
Public Domain
1941 in literature, 1951 in literature, 1961 in literature, and 1971 in literature for writers who died in those years
Over 300 public domain authors available in Wikisource (any language), with descriptions from Wikidata




External links


PublicDomainDay.org
Center for the Study of the Public Domain's Public Domain Day 2012




References

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• Google Maps
• YouTube
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• WTFPL
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• Piano Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven)
• Yahoo! Mail
• Public domain
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• Public Domain Day
• 2019 in public domain
• Public domain film
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• 2016 in public domain
• Public-domain software
• 2017 in public domain