2001 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 2001. 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, 2001. Names Country Birth Death Occupation Notable work Iso Mutsu United Kingdom 1867 dmy 1930 dmy historian, travel writer Kamakura: Fact and Legend Edward Bok United States 1863 10 09 dmy 1930 01 09 dmy magazine editor, non-fiction writer Why I Believe in Poverty, The Americanization of Edward Bok, A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After, A Man from Maine Johannes Gillhoff Germany 1861 05 24 dmy 1930 01 16 dmy teacher, researcher of the expressions and speech patterns of Low German, novelist Mecklenburgischen Volksrätseln (Mecklenburg folk riddles), Jürnjakob Swehn der Amerikafahrer (Jürnjakob Swehn, the Traveler to America), Mecklenburgischen Monatshefte (Mecklenburg monthly notes) Rebecca Latimer Felton United States 1835 06 10 dmy 1930 01 24 dmy white supremacist politician, activist for prison reform, women's suffrage and education reform, My Memoirs of Georgia Politics, Country Life in Georgia in the Days of my Youth, The Romantic Story of Georgia's Women Alice Williams Brotherton United States 1848 04 04 dmy 1930 02 09 dmy poet, essayist, children's writer, literary scholar, specialist on the works of William Shakespeare Beyond the veil, What the wind told to the tree-tops, The sailing of King Olaf : and other poems, The real Hamlet and the Hamlet oldest of all, Debasing the Poetic Coinage the Quality and Function of Poetry George Haven Putnam United States 1844 04 02 dmy 1930 02 27 dmy publisher, president of the publishing company G. P. Putnam's Sons, activist for copyright protection for authors, memoirist, children's writer Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages, Censorship of the Church of Rome and Its Influence Upon the Production and Distribution of Literature, A Prisoner of War in Virginia, Memories of a Publisher, Some Memories of the Civil War, The Little Gingerbread Man Joseph Wright United Kingdom 1855 10 31 dmy 1930 02 27 dmy Germanic philologist, university professor, lexicographer The English Dialect Dictionary, An Old High-German Primer, A Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill in the West Riding of Yorkshire: Illustrated by a Series of Dialect Specimens, Phonetically Rendered; with a Glossarial Index of the Words Used in the Grammar and Specimens, A Primer of the Gothic Language, The English Dialect Grammar, comprising the dialects of England, of the Shetland and Orkney islands, and of those parts of Scotland, Ireland & Wales where English is habitually spoken, Comparative Grammar of the Greek Language C. K. Scott Moncrieff United Kingdom 1889 09 25 dmy 1930 02 28 dmy short story writer, satirist, translator, literary critic Evensong and Morwe Song, The Strange and Striking Adventure of Four Authors in Search of a Character, 1926 D. H. Lawrence United Kingdom 1885 09 11 dmy 1930 03 02 dmy novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow , Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover Alois Jirásek Czechoslovakia 1851 08 23 dmy 1930 03 12 dmy history teacher, historical novelist, playwright Ancient Bohemian Legends, Mezi proudy (Between the Currents), Proti všem, The Philosophers' Story or Psohlavci Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman United States 1852 10 31 dmy 1930 03 13 dmy short story writer, novelist, ghost story writer A New England Nun, Pembroke, Collected Ghost Stories, co-writer of The Whole Family Alfred Williams United Kingdom 1877 02 07 dmy 1930 04 10 dmy poet, prose writer, collector of folk song lyrics Life in a Railway Factory, Songs in Wiltshire Sigurd Ibsen Norway 1859 12 23 dmy 1930 04 14 dmy politician, Prime Minister of Norway in Stockholm, lawyer, political writer Unionen, founder of the magazine Ringeren Vladimir Mayakovsky Russia 1893 07 19 dmy 1930 04 14 dmy poet, playwright, poster artist, manifesto co-writer for Russian Futurism A Cloud in Trousers, Backbone Flute, The Bedbug, The Bathhouse John B. Sheridan United States 1870 01 22 dmy 1930 04 14 dmy sports journalist, whistleblower regular writer of the sports column Back of Home Plate Robert Bridges United Kingdom 1844 10 23 dmy 1930 04 21 dmy poet, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, playwright, hymn writer, literary critic, World War I propagandist for the War Propaganda Bureau Milton's Prosody, Humdrum and Harum-Scarum, Eros and Psyche, The Feast of Bacchus, Achilles in Scyros, The Return of Ulysses, Demeter: A Mask, Prometheus the Firegiver: A Mask in the Greek Manner Jeppe Aakjær Denmark 1866 11 10 dmy 1930 04 22 dmy novelist, playwright, poet, member of the Jutland Movement Bondens Søn (The Peasant's Son), Vredens børn, et tyendes saga (Children of Wrath: A Hired Man's Saga),Arbejdets Glæde (The Joy of Work), Jens Langkniv, Rugens sange (Songs of the Rye), Heimdal's Wanderings Maria Polydouri Greece 1902 04 01 dmy 1930 04 29 dmy poet, representative of Neo-romanticism, diarist, theatrical actress, dressmaker The Pain of the Mother, The Chirps that faint, Echo over chaos William John Locke United Kingdom 1863 03 20 dmy 1930 05 15 dmy short story writer, novelist, playwright The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, The Beloved Vagabond, The Glory of Clementina Wing, The Adventure of the Fickle Goddess Florence Bell United Kingdom 1851 09 09 dmy 1930 05 16 dmy playwright A Collection of Plays and Monologues for the Drawing Room, At the Works: Study of a Manufacturing Town, Middlesbrough, The Heart of Yorkshire, The Letters of Gertrude Bell Vol 1 and 2, Petit theâtre des enfants: twelve tiny french plays for children Herbert Croly United States 1869 01 23 dmy 1930 05 17 dmy political philosopher, intellectual leader of the progressive movement, biographer The Promise of American Life, Progressive Democracy, Marcus Alonso Hanna: His Life and Work, The Effect on American Institutions of a Powerful Military and Naval Establishment Arthur St John Adcock United Kingdom 1864 01 17 dmy 1930 06 09 dmy novelist, poet, journalist, magazine editor, one of the "Cockney school novelists" who imitated Charles Dickens56888 George Malcolm Johnson Ridge, William Pett East End Idylls, An unfinished martyrdom and other stories, In The Wake of the War, Songs of the War, The Luck of Private Foster: A Romance of Love and War, The World that Never Was. A London Fantasy, Australasia Triumphant! With the Australians and New Zealanders in the Great War on Land And Sea, For Remembrance. Soldier Poets who have Fallen in the War. With nineteen portraits Herbert Warren United Kingdom 1853 10 21 dmy 1930 06 09 dmy academic, college president, college rugby football player, poet By Severn Sea and Other Poems, The Death of Virgil Israel Gollancz United Kingdom 1863 07 13 dmy 1930 06 23 dmy literary scholar, specialist on the works of William Shakespeare, college professor, translator co-founder of the British Academy and director of the Early English Text Society, editor of the "Temple" Shakespeare collection of Shakespeare's works and of the anthology A Book of Homage to Shakespeare, article writer for the Dictionary of National Biography Arthur Conan Doyle United Kingdom 1859 05 22 dmy 1930 07 07 dmy writer in the fields of crime fiction, detective fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction A Study in Scarlet, Micah Clarke, The Mystery of Cloomber, The Sign of the Four, The White Company, The Great Shadow,The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Lost World, The Land of Mist Pavlos Karolidis Greece c. 1849 dmy 1930 07 26 dmy historian, politician Kappadokika, a historical and archaeological dissertation on Cappadocia, History of the 19th Century, Universal or World History, The Ethnic Ancestry of the Orthodox Christians of Syria and Palestine, Contemporary History Lucien Wolf United Kingdom 1857 01 20 dmy 1930 08 23 dmy historian, diplomat, journalist The Russian Conspiracy or Russian Monopoly in Opposition to Britain Interest in the East, Menasseh ben Israel’s Mission to Oliver Cromwell, The Myth of the Jewish Menace in World Affairs: The Truth about the Forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The Queen's Jewry 1837–1897 William Archibald Spooner United Kingdom 1844 07 22 dmy 1930 08 29 dmy cleric, university don, lecturer on ancient history, divinity and philosophy, specialist on the works of Aristotle The Moral Philosophy Of Aristotle, Bishop Butler Thomas Nicoll Hepburn United Kingdom 1861 04 21 dmy 1930 09 01 dmy novelist, biographer, poet, representative of the literary movement Kailyard school The Child World, Barncraig: Episodes in the Life of a Scottish Village, Sunshine and Haar: Some Further Glimpses of Life at Barncraig, Robert Burns, The Skipper of Barncraig Vladimir Arsenyev Russia 1872 11 10 dmy 1930 09 04 dmy explorer of the Far East, travel writer, memoirist Po Ussuriyskomu krayu (Along the Ussuri land), Dersu Uzala, Skvoz taygu (Through the taiga) Georges de Porto-Riche France 1849 05 20 dmy 1930 09 05 dmy dramatist, novelist, comedy writer Le Vertige, Les Deux Fautes, La Chance de Françoise, L'Infidèle, Amoureuse, Le Passé, Les Malefilâtre Karam Singh British India 1884 03 18 dmy 1930 09 18 dmy historian, poster artist, diarist Banda Bahadur, Katak Ki Visakh, Jeevan Harnaam Kaur, Maharaja Ala Singh Arthur Way United Kingdom 1847 02 13 dmy 1930 09 25 dmy classical scholar, translator Homer, Greek through English, Sons of the Violet-Crowned, a Tale of Ancient Athens Olena Pchilka Ukraine 1849 06 29 dmy 1930 10 04 dmy publisher, ethnographer, translator, collector of folk songs, newspaper editor Ukrainian Folk Ornament, To Ukrainian Children, Thoughts of a Net, Tovaryshky Roy Horniman United Kingdom 1868 07 31 dmy 1930 10 11 dmy playwright, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, animal welfare and free speech activist Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal, The Sin of Atlantis, The Living Buddha, A Nonconformist Parson, Lord Cammarleigh's Secret: A Fairy Story of To-Day James Surtees Phillpotts United Kingdom 1839 07 18 dmy 1930 10 16 dmy educational writer, classics scholar Stories from Herodotus in Attic Greek, King and Commonwealth: A History of Charles I and the Great Rebellion, Shakespeare's Tempest, Homer without a Lexicon for Beginners, Selections Adapted from Xenophon William B. Hanna United States 1866 01 05 dmy 1930 11 20 dmy sports journalist sports columns for various newspapers based in New York City, received posthumous recognition by the New York Baseball Writers Association Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune Canada 1855 04 12 dmy 1930 11 21 dmy missionary, linguist, newspaper publisherPractical Chinook vocabulary, Prayers in the Okanagan language, Polyglott manual of prayers, Chinook rudiments Florbela Espanca Portugal 1894 12 08 dmy 1930 12 08 dmy poetO livro D'ele (His book), Livro de Mágoas (The Book of Sorrows), Livro de Soror Saudade (Sister Saudade's Book), Charneca em Flor (Heath in Bloom) Neil Munro United Kingdom 1863 06 03 dmy 1930 12 22 dmy historical novelist, short story writer, journalist, newspaper editor, literary critic The New Road, John Splendid, Doom Castle, The Daft Days Marion Manville Pope United States 1859 07 13 dmy 1930 12 22 dmy children's writer, poet Over the divide and other verses, Up the matterhorn in a boat, Between two gods : [an allegory], 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 Edith Escombe United Kingdom 1866 dmy 1950 dmy memoirist, novelist, essayistBits I Remember, A Tale that is Told, Stucco and Speculation, Love's Ghost, Old Maids' Children, Phases of Marriage Helen Rowland United States 1875 dmy 1950 dmy journalist, humoristReflections of a Bachelor Girl, The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor, A Guide To Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, The sayings of Mrs. Solomon: Being the confessions of the seven hundredth wife as revealed to Helen Rowland, If, A Chant for Wives also The White Woman's Burden Cuthbert Whitaker United Kingdom 1873 05 26 dmy 1950 dmy almanack editor editor of Whitaker's Almanack Basil Williams United Kingdom 1867 04 04 dmy 1950 01 05 dmy historian The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Botha, Smuts and South Africa, The Whig Supremacy Joseph Schumpeter Austria 1883 02 08 dmy 1950 01 08 dmy political economist Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, The theory of economic development: an inquiry into profits, capital, credit, interest, and the business cycle, Economic doctrine and method: an historical sketch, The sociology of imperialisms, Social classes in an ethnically homogeneous environment, Depressions: Can we learn from past experience? George Orwell United Kingdom 1903 06 26 dmy 1950 01 21 dmy dystopian fiction writer, novelist, essayist, journalist, critic Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, Burmese Days D. K. Broster United Kingdom 1877 09 02 dmy 1950 02 07 dmy historical novelist, horror fiction writer, short-story writer The Flight of the Heron, "Mr. Rowl", Couching at the Door: Strange and Macabre Tales, Clairvoyance, Juggernaut, The Pestering Rafael Sabatini United Kingdom 1875 04 29 dmy 1950 02 13 dmy romance and adventure novelist, short story writer, playwright The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, Captain Blood, Bellarion the Fortunate Irving Bacheller United States 1859 09 26 dmy 1950 02 24 dmy novelist, journalist Eben Holden, The Master of Silence, Still House of O'Darrow, The Light in the Clearing, A Man for the Ages, The Master of Chaos Alberto Gerchunoff Argentina 1883 01 01 dmy 1950 03 02 dmy novelist, journalist The Jewish Gauchos, Héroes de los Intersticios, Historias y proezas de amor, Los amores de Baruj Spinoza, El hombre importante, La clínica del doctor Mefistófeles; moderna milagrería en diez jornadas, Retorno a Don Quijote Edgar Lee Masters United States 1868 08 23 dmy 1950 03 05 dmy novelist, dramatist, biographer, poet Spoon River Anthology, To-morrow is My Birthday, Across Spoon River: An Autobiography, Lincoln: The Man, Mark Twain: A Portrait, The Blood of the Prophets, The Fate of the Jury: An Epilogue to Domesday Book, The Tide of Time Heinrich Mann Germany 1871 03 27 dmy 1950 03 11 dmy novelist Der Untertan, Professor Unrat, Die Jugend des Königs Henri Quatre, Die Vollendung des Königs Henri Quatre Edgar Rice Burroughs United States 1875 09 01 dmy 1950 03 19 dmy writer in the genres of adventure fiction, science fiction, and fantasy A Princess of Mars, Thuvia, Maid of Mars, Llana of Gathol, Tarzan and the Lost Empire, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Land of Terror, The Land That Time Forgot Emmanuel Mounier France 1905 04 01 dmy 1950 03 22 dmy philosopher, theologian, representative of personalism Révolution personnaliste et communautaire, De la propriété capitaliste à la propriété humaine, Manifeste au service du personnalisme, Pacifistes ou Bellicistes, L'éveil de l'Afrique noire Henric Streitman Romania 1870 02 16 dmy c. 1950 03 30 dmy politician, journalist, translator Între da și nu (Between Yes and No), Mi se pare că... (Signs Point to...) F. O. Matthiessen United States 1902 02 19 dmy 1950 04 01 dmy educator, scholar, and literary critic American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman, Translation: An Elizabethan Art, From the Heart of Europe, The Education of a Socialist, The James Family: A Group Biography Albert Ehrenstein Germany 1886 12 23 dmy 1950 04 08 dmy novelist, expressionist poet, translator, anti-war activist Wanderers song, The man screams, Murderer from Justice, Räuber und Soldaten. Roman frei nach dem Chinesischen H. Bonciu Romania 1893 05 19 dmy 1950 04 27 dmy erotica writer, novelist, poet, journalist and translator, representative of Neo-romanticism and Surrealism, winemaker Lada cu năluci (A Crate of Apparitions), Eu și Orientul. Douăzeci și cinci de sonete (I and the Orient. Twenty-five Sonnets), Strania, dubla existență a unui om în patru labe (The Strange Double Life of a Man on His All Fours), Pensiunea doamnei Pipersberg (Mrs. Pipersberg's Boarding House) Agnes Smedley United States 1892 02 23 dmy 1950 05 06 dmy journalist, novelist, political activist for both the Indian independence movement and the Chinese Communist Revolution Daughter of Earth, Chinese Destinies, China's Red Army Marches, China Fights Back, Battle Hymn of China, and The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh Cezaro Rossetti United Kingdom 1901 dmy 1950 05 08 dmy novelist Kredu min, sinjorino! (Believe me, Ma'am!) Belle da Costa Greene United States 1879 11 26 dmy 1950 05 10 dmy librarian, first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, letter writer Her professional correspondence survives in the collections of The Morgan Library & Museum. Morgan Library & Museum Greene Belle da Costa The Morgan collections correspondence http://corsair.themorgan.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=240586 8 August 2021 1887–1948 270966283 Alfred O. Andersson United States 1874 12 10 dmy 1950 05 11 dmy newspaper publisher, journalist, newspaper editor publisher of the Dallas Dispatch, co-founder of the Houston Press, editor of the Memphis Press, general manager of the Newspaper Enterprise Association George Cecil Ives United Kingdom 1867 10 01 dmy 1950 06 04 dmy poet, political activist for prison reform campaigner and gay rights Penal Methods in the Middle Ages, A History of Penal Methods: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics, The Sexes, Structure, & "Extra-organic" Habits of certain Animals, English Prisons Today, Graeco-Roman View of Youth, The Missing Baronet Katharine Glasier United Kingdom 1867 09 25 dmy 1950 06 14 dmy socialist politician, novelist, journalist, educator Husband and Brother, Aimee Furniss, Scholar, Marget, Tales from the Derbyshire Hills Guy Gilpatric United States 1896 01 21 dmy 1950 07 07 dmy pilot, flight instructor, short-story writer and novelist Flying Stories, Action in the North Atlantic, Brownstone Front, French Summer, The Compleat Goggler Cesare Pavese Italy 1908 09 09 dmy 1950 08 27 dmy novelist, short story writer, translator, literary critic The Beautiful Summer, The Moon and the Bonfires, Lavorare stanca (Hard Labor), Il Compagno (The Comrade), Dialoghi con Leucò (The Leucothea Dialogues), Il diavolo sulle colline (The Devil in the Hills) Olaf Stapledon United Kingdom 1886 05 10 dmy 1950 09 06 dmy philosopher, science fiction writer, anti-apartheid activistLast and First Men, Last Men in London, Star Maker, Sirius Henrik Rytter Norway 1877 01 18 dmy 1950 09 18 dmy dramatist, lyricist, and translator.Dømde,Bråhamaren, Herman Ravn, Våren, Elva, Prestegarden og øya Nicolai Hartmann Germany 1882 02 20 dmy 1950 10 09 dmy philosopher, metaphysician, representative of critical realismDas Seinsproblem in der griechischen Philosophie vor Plato (The Problem of Being in Greek Philosophy Before Plato), Platos Logik des Seins (The Logic of Being in Plato), Des Proklus Diadochus philosophische Anfangsgründe der Mathematik (Proclus Diadochus' Philosophical Elements of Mathematics), Die philosophischen Grundfragen der Biologie (The Philosophical Foundations of Biology) Edna St. Vincent Millay United States 1892 02 22 dmy 1950 10 19 dmy lyrical poet, playwright, feminist, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryRenascence, Aria da Capo, The Lamp and the Bell, A Few Figs From Thistles Herbert Kelly United Kingdom 1860 07 18 dmy 1950 10 31 dmy English Anglican priest and theologianThe Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy, The Kingdom of Christ, An Idea In the Working: An Account of the Society of the Sacred Mission, its History and Aims, A History of the Church of Christ, No Pious Person: Autobiographical Recollections By Herbert Kelly George Bernard Shaw Ireland 1856 07 26 dmy 1950 11 02 dmy playwright, satirist, polemicist, political activistMan and Superman, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, Arms and the Man, Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma, Caesar and Cleopatra Johannes V. Jensen Denmark 1873 01 20 dmy 1950 11 25 dmy pulp fiction writer, historical novelist The Fall of the King, The Long Journey, Danskere, Einar Elkjær, Himmerland Stories Xavier Villaurrutia Mexico 1903 03 27 dmy 1950 12 25 dmy novelist, playwright, poet, translator, literary critic Dama de corazones (Lady of hearts),Beck Vera F. 1952-12-16 Xavier Villaurrutia, dramaturgo moderno https://revista-iberoamericana.pitt.edu/ojs/Iberoamericana/article/view/1481 Revista Iberoamericana 18 35 en 27–39 10.5195/reviberoamer.1952.1481 2154-4794 free Nostalgia de la muerte (Nostalgia of death), Décima muerte (Tenth death), Invitación à la muerte (Invitation to the death) Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Russia 1887 02 11 dmy 1950 12 28 dmy playwright, philosopher, historian, essayist The Smoke-Colored Goblet, Fairy-tales for Wunderkinder, Someone Else's Theme, What Men Die By, Unbitten Elbow, One Smaller Than the Other, Postmark: Moscow 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 1900 in literature, 1930 in literature and 1950 in literature for deaths of writers Public Domain Day Creative Commons References Category:Public domain by year Public domain