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Artists, books, films that will become free to use in 2024: Disney, Picasso, Tolkien
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Date:2025-04-14 18:13:59
Every year a new set of works enters the public domain and becomes free for people to reuse for any purpose, depending on the copyright laws of your area.
The Public Domain Review, a nonprofit online journal, gathered the most prominent works that will enter the public domain next year, which were made by:
- Copyright owners who died in 1953 for countries with a copyright term of “life plus 70 years” — including New Zealand, and most of Africa and Asia.
- Copyright owners who died in 1973 for countries with a term of “life plus 50 years” — including New Zealand and most of Africa and Asia.
- Films and books (including artworks featured) published in 1928 for the United States.
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Most prominent works, films, books that will enter public domain in 2024
Here are some of the most prominent works entering the public domain in 2024:
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Films
- "October: Ten Days That Shook the World" directed by Sergei Eisenstein (entering public domain in the U.S.)
- Walt Disney’s "Steamboat Willie" (entering public domain in the U.S.)
- "The Passion of Joan of Arc" directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer (entering public domain in the U.S.)
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Novels, books, poetry
- Karl Blossfeldt’s "Urformen der Kunst" (entering public domain in the U.S.)
- Wanda Gág’s "Millions of Cats" (entering public domain in the U.S.)
- W. E. B. Du Bois’s "Dark Princess" (entering public domain in the U.S.)
- D. H. Lawrence’s "Lady Chatterley’s Lover" (entering public domain in the U.S.)
- André Breton’s "Nadja" (entering public domain in the U.S.)
- Siegfried Sassoon’s "Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man" (entering public domain in the U.S.)
- Evelyn Waugh’s "Decline and Fall" (entering public domain in the U.S.)
- Virginia Woolf’s "Orlando: A Biography" (entering public domain in the U.S.)
- A. A. Milne’s "The House at Pooh Corner" (entering public domain in the U.S.)
- Federico García Lorca’s "Gypsy Ballads" (entering public domain in the U.S.)
Artists, writers, filmmakers
- Pablo Picasso (entering public domain in countries with copyright of “life plus 50 years”)
- Dylan Thomas (entering public domain in countries with copyright of “life plus 70 years”)
- Cecil Hepworth (entering public domain in countries with copyright of “life plus 70 years”)
- J. R. R. Tolkien (entering public domain in countries with copyright of “life plus 50 years”)
- Edmund Dulac (entering public domain in countries with copyright of “life plus 70 years”)
- Hank Williams (entering public domain in countries with copyright of “life plus 70 years”)
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