2002 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 2002. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform. Entered the public domain in countries with life + 70 years With the exception of Belarus (Life + 50 years) and Spain (Life + 80 years for creators that died before 1987), a work enters the public domain in Europe 70 years after the creator's death, if it was published during the creator's lifetime.http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/publishing/eu-extends-copyright-term-to-70-years-1005348552.story EU Extends Copyright Term To 70 Years | Billboard Billboard.biz 2011-09-12 2014-01-07 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 Directive 2006/116/EC The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator that entered the public domain on January 1, 2002. Names Country Birth Death Occupation Notable work L. Adams Beck United Kingdom 1862 dmy 1931 01 03 dmy fantasy writer, novelist, short story writer, biographer, esotericist The Openers of The Gate and Other Stories of the Occult, The Splendour of Asia: The Story and Teaching of the Buddha, The Way of Power: Studies in the Occult, The Divine Lady: A Romance of Nelson and Emma Hamilton, The Thunderer: A Romance of Napoleon and Joséphine Henry Gauthier-Villars France 1859 08 08 dmy 1931 01 12 dmy novelist, music critic, literary editor Co-writer and editor of the novel series Claudine in collaboration with his wife Colette,Southworth Helen 2004 The intersecting realities and fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette Ohio State University Press 978-0-8142-5136-2 https://books.google.com/books?id=TP_q7KHL1EkC 111 marketed a line of dolls based on the novels. Graça Aranha Brazil 1868 06 21 dmy 1931 01 26 dmymodernist writer, novelist, dramatist, essayist, diplomat, judge Canaã, Malazarte, Estética da Vida (An Aesthetics of Life) Ida B. Wells United States 1862 07 16 dmy 1931 03 25 dmyinvestigative journalist, sociologist, educator Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases, The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells Arnold Bennett United Kingdom 1867 05 27 dmy 1931 03 27 dmynovelist, short story writer, dramatist, diarist Anna of the Five Towns, The Old Wives' Tale, The Clayhanger Family, Riceyman Steps André Michelin France 1853 01 16 dmy 1931 04 04 dmyindustrialist, engineer Eponymous founder and publisher of the guide book series Michelin Guide Mayyasi Alex https://priceonomics.com/why-does-a-tire-company-publish-the-michelin-guide Why Does a Tire Company Publish the Michelin Guide? Priceonomics 23 June 2016 live https://web.archive.org/web/20161016182944/https://priceonomics.com/why-does-a-tire-company-publish-the-michelin-guide 16 October 2016 Kahlil Gibran United States 1883 01 06 dmy 1931 04 10 dmypoet, visual artist, philosopher The Prophet, The Madman, The Earth Gods Nérée Beauchemin Canada 1850 02 20 dmy 1931 06 29 dmypoet Les Floraisons Matutinales (The Morning Blossoming), Patrie intime: Harmonies (Intimate Homeland: Harmonies) Harald Høffding Denmark 1843 03 11 dmy 1931 07 02 dmyphilosopher, theologian, university professor Søren Kierkegaard as Philosopher, Den nyere Filosofis Historie (History of Modern Philosophy), Psychology, the Problems of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion Vasile Cijevschi Romania 1880 10 17 dmy 1931 07 14 dmyOrientalist, nationalist politician, polemicist, journalist Founder and owner of the Russian-language newspaper Golos Kishinyova, editor of the regional Russian-language newspaper Nashe Slovo (Our Word),Ileana-Stanca Desa, Dulciu Morărescu, Ioana Patriche, Adriana Raliade, Iliana Sulică, Publicațiile periodice românești (ziare, gazete, reviste). Vol. III: Catalog alfabetic 1919-1924, p. 651. Bucharest: Editura Academiei, 1987 wrote the short story Unei prietene (To a Lady Friend) Bertha McNamara Australia 1853 09 28 dmy 1931 08 01 dmylabour activist, political writer, bookseller Home Talk on Socialism, Commercialism and Distribution of the Nineteenth Century, Forgery and Workingmen's Homes, How to Become Rich Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, Shylock Exposed Delfín Chamorro Paraguay 1863 12 24 dmy 1931 08 15 dmylanguage teacher, grammarian, poet Grammar Castellana Frank Harris United States 1856 02 14 dmy 1931 08 26 dmymemoirist, novelist, short story writer, publisher, editor My Life and Loves, The Bomb, The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life Story, The Veils of Isis, and Other Stories, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions, My Reminiscences as a Cowboy Hall Caine United Kingdom 1853 05 14 dmy 1931 08 31 dmynovelist, dramatist, short story writer, poet, critic, World War I-era propagandist The Christian, She's All the World to Me: A Novel, The Manxman, The Master of Man: The Story of a Sin, The Woman of Knockaloe: A Parable Sue A. Sanders United States 1842 03 25 dmy 1931 09 08 dmyteacher, social leader, diarist A journey to on and from the "golden shore" Matilda Cugler-Poni Romania 1851 04 02 dmy 1931 09 09 dmypoet, short story writer, comedy writer Unei tinere fete (To a Young Girl), Un tutor Jane Meade Welch United States 1854 03 11 dmy 1931 09 30 dmyhistorian, journalist The War of 1812, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, The Territorial Development of the United States, The Marking of Historic Sites on the Niagara Frontier Ernst Didring Sweden 1868 10 18 dmy 1931 10 13 dmynaturalist writer, novelist, leader of the Swedish Red Cross Malm (iron ore), Grålöga—Trilogin (former life in the Stockholm archipelago), Världsspindeln (The World's Spider), Det mörkblå frimärket (The Dark Blue Stamp) Arthur Schnitzler Austria 1862 05 15 dmy 1931 10 21 dmyModernist writer, novelist, dramatist Professor Bernhardi, Der Weg ins Freie (The Road into the Open), Reigen, Fräulein Else Lucas Malet United Kingdom 1852 06 04 dmy 1931 10 27 dmynovelist, short story writer, ghost story writer, fiction writer about sadomasochism The Wages of Sin, The History of Sir Richard Calmady, Colonel Enderby's Wife, The Gateless Barrier Juan Zorrilla de San Martín Uruguay 1855 12 28 dmy 1931 11 03 dmypoet Tabaré, La leyenda patria (The Fatherland Legend), Himno al Arbol (Hymn to the Tree) Ole Edvart Rølvaag United States 1876 04 22 dmy 1931 11 05 dmynovelist Giants in the Earth,Heitmann John Edvart Rølvaag http://www.naha.stolaf.edu/pubs/nas/volume12/vol12_8.htm live https://web.archive.org/web/20090704223801/http://www.naha.stolaf.edu/pubs/nas/volume12/vol12_8.htm 2009-07-04 2009-01-21 Norwegian-American Historical Association 144 XII Peder Seier (Peder Victorious), Den Signede Dag (Their Father's God) Xu Zhimo China 1897 01 15 dmy 1931 11 19 dmypoet, translator, founder of the literary society Crescent Moon Society Zaibie Kangqiao (Taking Leave of Cambridge Again) Vachel Lindsay United States 1879 11 10 dmy 1931 12 05 dmypoet, illustrator, writer on film criticism The Art of the Moving Picture, Rhymes To Be Traded For Bread, The Jazz Birds, The Congo, Every Soul A Circus Enrico Corradini Italy 1865 07 20 dmy 1931 12 10 dmynovelist, dramatist, essayist, journalist, nationalist political writer Il volere d'Italia (Italy's Desire), L'ora di Tripoli (Tripoli's Moment), La patria lontana (The Distant Fatherland), La guerra lontana (The Distant War), Julius Caesar: A Play in Five Acts Melvil Dewey United States 1851 12 10 dmy 1931 12 26 dmylibrarian, educator, founder of the Columbia University School of Library Service eponymous creator of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, founder and editor of the Library Journal, writer of Librarianship as a profession for college-bred women. An address delivered before the Association of collegiate alumnæ, on March 13, 1886, by Melvil Dewey and Statistics of libraries in the state of New York numbering over 300 volumes Alfred Perceval Graves Ireland 1846 07 22 dmy 1931 12 27 dmypoet, songwriter, folklorist, president of the Irish Literary Society Father O'Flynn, Songs of Old Ireland, Irish Songs and Ballads, Irish Folk-Songs, Songs of Eriny Graves, Alfred Perceval 12 383 Ieronim Yasinsky Russia 1850 04 30 dmy 1931 12 31 dmy novelist, poet, literary critic, essayist, science fiction writer, children's writer The Kiev Stories, Natashka, The Sleeping Beauty, Irinarkh Plutarkhov, The Old Friend, The Great Man, Under Satan's Cloak Entered the public domain in countries with life + 50 years In most countries of Africa and Asia, as well as Belarus, Bolivia, Canada, New Zealand, Egypt and Uruguay; a work enters the public domain 50 years after the creator's death. NamesCountryBirthDeathOccupationNotable work Maila Talvio Finland 1871 10 17 dmy 1951 01 06 dmy novelist, short story writer, dramatist, non-fiction writer on the temperance movement Aili, Kaksi rakkautta, Kansan seassa, Pimeän pirtin hävitys René Guénon France 1886 11 15 dmy 1951 01 07 dmy writer on metaphysics, esotericist, Sufist The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu doctrines, Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta, The Symbolism of the Cross Sinclair Lewis United States 1885 02 07 dmy 1951 01 10 dmy novelist, short-story writer, playwright. Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth, It Can't Happen Here James Bridie United Kingdom 1888 01 03 dmy 1951 01 29 dmy playwright, screenwriter, physician. A Sleeping Clergyman, Mary Read, Daphne Laureola, wrote the screenplays for the films The Paradine Case, Under Capricorn, and Stage Fright Lloyd C. Douglas United States 1877 08 27 dmy 1951 02 13 dmy historical novelist, Lutheran and Congregationalist minister The Robe, The Big Fisherman, Magnificent Obsession, Home for Christmas Henri-René Lenormand France 1882 05 03 dmy 1951 02 16 dmy playwright, popularized Freudian theories of psychoanalysis La Grande Mort, Le Réveil de l'instinct, Les Ratés, Confessions d'un auter dramatique André Gide France 1869 11 22 dmy 1951 02 19 dmy Novelist, essayist, dramatist The Immoralist, Strait Is the Gate, The Pastoral Symphony, The Counterfeiters, The Fruits of the Earth Vsevolod Vishnevsky Russia 1900 12 21 dmy 1951 02 28 dmy playwright, screenwriter, journalist, war correspondent An Optimistic Tragedy, We Are from Kronstadt, Battle at West, By the Walls of Leningrad, We, Russian People János Zsupánek Hungary 1861 01 06 dmy 1951 03 11 dmy poet, hymn writer Magyar dalok (Hungarian Songs), Vu iméni Ocsé, i Sziná, i Dühá, szvétoga Ámen (In the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen), Mrtvecsne peszmi (Dirges), Szenje blázsene device Marie (The Fair of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Novine) Oscar Micheaux United States 1884 01 02 dmy 1951 03 25 dmy novelist, film director, independent film producer The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer, The Forged Note, The Homesteader: A Novel, The Wind from Nowhere, Masquerade, a Historical Novel Henrik Visnapuu Estonia 1890 01 02 dmy 1951 04 03 dmy playwright, Symbolist poet, school teacher, freelance journalist Amores, Ad astra, Mare Balticum, Linnutee Sadegh Hedayat Iran 1903 02 17 dmy 1951 04 09 dmy Modernist writer, novelist, short story writer, satirist, poet, translator The Blind Owl, The Stray Dog, The Benefits of Vegetarianism,Sollars, Michael; Jennings, Arbolina Llamas. (2008). The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel 1900 to the Present. Facts On File. p. 347. ISBN 978-1438108360 Three Drops of Blood Henry de Vere Stacpoole Ireland 1863 04 09 dmy 1951 04 12 dmy romance novelist, memoirist, translator, conservation movement activist focusing on the protection of seabirds The Blue Lagoon, The Garden of God, The Gates of Morning, The Beach of Dreams: A Story of the True World Ludwig Wittgenstein United Kingdom 1889 04 26 dmy 1951 04 29 dmy philosopher, lexicographer Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Some Remarks on Logical Form, Philosophical Investigations, Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough Alphonse de Châteaubriant France 1877 03 25 dmy 1951 05 02 dmy novelist, fascist and Nazist political writer The Keynote, La Brière, ...Des saisons et des jours... Journal de l'auteur, 1911-1924, Fragments d'une confession – La sainteté Paula von Preradović Austria 1887 10 12 dmy 1951 05 25 dmy poet, lyricist, diarist Land der Berge, Land am Strome (Land of the Peaks, Land by the Stream), Wiener Chronik, Die Versuchung des Columba, Pave und Pero Hermann Broch Austria 1886 11 01 dmy 1951 05 30 dmy Modernist writer, novelist, short story writer, non-fiction writer on mass psychology The Sleepwalkers, The Death of Virgil,Broch, Hermann (1886–1951) - Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/broch-hermann-1886-1951 2021-09-24 www.rem.routledge.com enA Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781571135414/a-companion-to-the-works-of-hermann-broch/ 2021-09-24 Boydell and Brewer en-GB 2021-09-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20210924005132/https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781571135414/a-companion-to-the-works-of-hermann-broch/ dead The Guiltless, The Spell Håkon Evjenth Norway 1894 12 26 dmy 1951 06 10 dmy short story writer, children's writer, jurist, ethnographer with research focused on the Sami culture Folk under fot, 3 på to og 2 på fire, På to og fire i Suonjo, Over kjølen i kano, En fiskergutt i Sameland W. C. Sellar United Kingdom 1898 12 27 dmy 1951 06 11 dmy humourist, history teacher, schoolmaster1066 and All That, And Now All This, Horse Nonsense, Garden Rubbish and other Country Bumps, contributor to the humour magazine Punch William Randolph Hearst United States 1863 04 29 dmy 1951 08 14 dmy newspaper publisher, politician, political propagandisteponymous founder of the media conglomerate Hearst Communications, co-founder of the print syndication company King Features Syndicate,A Directory of Newspaper Syndicates in the United States (compiled from the Ayer Newspaper Directory for 1936 and Editor and Publisher International Year Book for 1936.) founder and owner of the animation studio International Film Service which produced animated adaptations of the comic strips Krazy Kat, The Katzenjammer Kids, And Her Name Was Maud, Happy Hooligan, Jerry on the Job, Bringing Up Father, Abie the Agent, and Judge Rummy.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/hearst_wr.htm William Randolph Hearst lambiek.net May 19, 2020 Published propaganda in favor of Nazi Germany during the interwar period, and published newspaper columns without rebuttal which were written by Nazi leaders such as Hermann Göring and Alfred Rosenberg.Parenti Michael Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism City Lights Books 1997 978-0-87286-329-3 San Francisco 11 en Richard Malden United Kingdom 1879 10 19 dmy 1951 08 dmy Ghost story writer, classical scholar, biblical scholar, President of the Somerset Archaeological Society, magazine editor, Anglican clergymanNine Ghosts, The Church of Headingley in Four Centuries, The Story of Wells Cathedral, The Apocrypha, The Growth of a Cathedral Church, Abbeys, their Rise and Fall, The Hangings In The Quire Of Wells Cathedral Abraham Cahan United States 1860 07 07 dmy 1951 08 31 dmy Socialist politician, newspaper editor, novelistThe Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, The Rise of David Levinsky Antoine Bibesco Romania 1878 07 19 dmy 1951 09 02 dmy dramatist, translator, diplomat, lawyerLetters of Marcel Proust to Antoine Bibesco, Ladies All F. G. Loring United Kingdom 1869 03 11 dmy 1951 09 07 dmy Vampire literature writer, technical journalist, naval correspondentThe Tomb of Sarah Petre P. Negulescu Romania 1870 10 18 dmy 1951 09 28 dmy philosopher, radical conservative politician, university professorwrote non-fiction tracts against the concepts of biological determinism and scientific racism, he also wrote Critica apriorismului și a empirismului (A Critique of Apriorism and Empiricism), Psihologia stilului (The Psychology of Style), Impersonalitatea și morala în artă (Impersonality and Morality in Art), Filosofia în viața practică (Philosophy in Practical Life), Rolul ideilor în progresul social (The Role of Ideas in Social Progress) I. C. Vissarion Romania 1879 02 02 dmy 1951 11 05 dmy folklorist, fairy tale writer, science fiction and science fantasy writer, poet, anti-establishment political activist, inventor, esotericist, amateur researcher of environmental science, wave power, and renewable energy, promoter of pseudoscience.Plăvanii (The Hoary Ones), Cartea omului neînțeles (The Book of a Misunderstood Man),Agerul Pământului (Earth's Agility), Energie mecanică în lumea în care ne găsim (Mechanic Energy for This World We Now Inhabit), Ghiță Cătănuță (Little Soldier Ghiță), Ochi negri(Black Eyes) Timrava Slovakia 1867 10 02 dmy 1951 11 27 dmy novelist, short story writer, playwright, satirist, kindergarten teacher, caretaker of collections at the Slovak National MuseumThat Alluring Land : Slovak Stories, co-published the journal Ratolest (Sprig) Pedro Salinas Spain 1891 11 27 dmy 1951 12 04 dmy poet, university teacher, literary critic, translatorReality and the Poet in Spanish Poetry, Presagios (Omens), Seguro azar (Certain chance), Underwood girls Algernon Blackwood United Kingdom 1869 03 14 dmy 1951 12 10 dmy ghost story writer, novelist, short story writer, journalist, occultistThe Willows, The Wendigo, Incredible Adventures, The Doll and One Other 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 Session 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.https://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm https://web.archive.org/web/20090626030245/http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm dead June 26, 2009 Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States | Copyright Information Center 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.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 See also 1901 in literature, 1931 in literature and 1951 in literature for deaths of writers Public Domain Day Creative Commons References Category:Public domain by year Public domain