2012 in public domain

none 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.http://www.edwardsamuels.com/copyright/beyond/articles/public.html The Public Domain in Copyright Lawhttp://compactiongames.about.com/od/abandonwarefaqs/f/abandon1_faq.htm Find the Best Free PC Games on These Sites! 2012-06-02 2013-01-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20130103040857/http://compactiongames.about.com/od/abandonwarefaqs/f/abandon1_faq.htm dead 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.http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/publishing/eu-extends-copyright-term-to-70-years-1005348552.story Billboard Business 2012-06-03 2013-01-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20130106035644/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/publishing/eu-extends-copyright-term-to-70-years-1005348552.story dead Authors 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 Walter Ruttmann Music Frank Bridge Arkady Gaidar Amalia Guglielminetti Alter Kacyzne Gustav Gerson Kahn Adolf Koczirz Jelly Roll Morton Other notable figures 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 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.http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2012/pre-1976 What Could Have Entered the Public Domain | Duke University School of LawS.505 - One Hundred Fifth Congress of the United States of America at the Second Session. An act to amend the provisions of title 17, United States Code, with respect to the duration of copyright, and for other purposes https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/s505.pdf U.S. Copyright Office If the work is owned by a corporation, then the copyright extends 95 years.Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States Copyright Information Center https://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm https://web.archive.org/web/20090626030245/http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm dead June 26, 2009 2021-09-28 copyright.cornell.edu en Due to the passing of the Copyright Term Extension Act (Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act) in 1998, works never registered or published before January 1, 1978, and whose authors died before 1942 entered the public domain in this jurisdiction on January 1, 2012.https://www.copyright.gov/pr/pdomain.html Certain Unpublished, Unregistered Works Enter Public Domain United States Copyright Office 2003-01-13 2026-04-21 Other works would not enter the public domain here until 2019.http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php United States Copyright Law 2012-06-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20140801121535/http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php 2014-08-01 dead In January 2012, the Supreme Court in a 6-2 decision stated that works in the public domain can have their copyright status renewed.https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/business/public-domain-works-can-be-copyrighted-anew-justices-rule.html Public Domain Works Can be Copyrighted Anew, Supreme Court Rules The New York Times 19 January 2012 Liptak Adam Worldwide As part of the Open Goldberg Variations, released a recording of Johan Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations performed by pianist Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka into the public domain through a CC0-licence.Wilkens Andreas Goldberg-Variationen: Johann Sebastian Bach als "Creative Commons Zero" https://www.heise.de/news/Goldberg-Variationen-Johann-Sebastian-Bach-als-Creative-Commons-Zero-1585806.html www.heise.de 27 September 2025 In August 2012, Jason Rohrer announced that all of the videogame Diamond Trust of London will enter the public domain.rawmeatcowboy Diamond Trust of London Kickstarter content goes public domain https://www.gonintendo.com/archives/201680-diamond-trust-of-london-kickstarter-content-goes-public-domain gonintendo.com 27 September 2025 British musician Dan Bull releases the public domain-song Sharing is Caring, which becomes nr 9 on the UK Independent Singles Chart.Park Jane Musician Dan Bull reaches #9 on UK indie charts using CC0 https://creativecommons.org/2012/05/02/musician-dan-bull-reaches-9-on-uk-indie-charts-using-cc0/ creativecommons.org 27 September 2025 On April 5th 2012, Nature Publishing Group released publication data for more than 450,000 articles into the public domain.Park Jane Nature Publishing Group releases publication data for more than 450,000 articles via CC0 https://creativecommons.org/2012/04/05/nature-publishing-group-releases-publication-data-for-more-than-450000-articles-via-cc0/ creativecommons.org 27 September 2025 On September 12th 2012, Europeana released 20 million records into the public domain.Vollmer Timothy Europeana releases 20 million records into the public domain using CC0 https://creativecommons.org/2012/09/12/europeana-releases-20-million-records-into-the-public-domain-using-cc0/ creativecommons.org 27 September 2025 See also List of countries' copyright lengths Public Domain Day Creative Commons Public Domain 1961 in literature for death writers 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 Category:Public domain by year Public domain