2003 in public domain

none When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of creators whose works entered the public domain in 2003. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform. Countries with life + 50 years In most countries of Africa and Asia, as well as Australia, Belarus, Bolivia, Canada, New Zealand, Egypt and Uruguay, a work enters the public domain 50 years after the creator's death. NamesCountryBirthDeathOccupationNotable work Youssef Aftimus Lebanon 1866 11 25 dmy 1952 09 10 dmy Architect Beirut City Hall Betty Allan Australia 1905 07 11 dmy 1952 08 06 dmy Statistician August Alle Estonia 1890 08 31 dmy 1952 07 08 dmy Writer Paul Hastings Allen United States 1883 11 28 dmy 1952 09 28 dmy Composer Aziza Amir Egypt 1901 12 17 dmy 1952 02 28 dmy Screenwriter, actress A Girl from Palestine Charles Ancliffe United Kingdom 1880 dmy 1952 12 20 dmy Composer Céline Arnauld France 1885 09 20 dmy 1952 12 23 dmy Writer Yury Artsybushev Russia 1877 03 28 dmy 1952 11 12 dmy Painter Alice Austen United States 1866 03 17 dmy 1952 06 09 dmy Photographer Frederic Austin United Kingdom 1872 03 30 dmy 1952 04 10 dmy Composer, singer List of compositions by Frederic Austin Nat Ayer United States 1887 08 05 dmy 1952 09 19 dmy Composer The Bing Boys Are Here, Yes, Uncle! Mariano Azuela Mexico 1873 01 01 dmy 1952 03 01 dmy Writer The Underdogs Adivi Baapiraju India 1895 10 08 dmy 1952 Writer Ferdinand Bac France 1859 08 15 dmy 1952 11 18 dmy Writer, artist Jimmy Bancks Australia 1889 05 10 dmy 1952 07 01 dmy Cartoonist Ginger Meggs Bruno Barilli Italy 1880 12 14 dmy 1952 04 15 dmy Composer Antonieta de Barros Brazil 1901 07 11 dmy 1952 03 28 dmy Journalist, politician Rudolf Hans Bartsch Austria 1873 02 11 dmy 1952 02 07 dmy Writer Ioan A. Bassarabescu Romania 1870 12 17 dmy 1952 03 27 dmy Writer, politician Gaston Baty France 1885 05 26 dmy 1952 10 13 dmy Playwright Nicolae Constantin Batzaria Romania 1874 11 20 dmy 1952 01 28 dmy Writer, politician Nikolai Bayev Armenia 1875 10 06 dmy 1952 08 05 dmy Architect Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater John Hay Beith United Kingdom 1876 04 17 dmy 1952 09 22 dmy Writer Pip Zeev Ben-Zvi Israel 1904 1952 Sculptor David Bergelson Soviet Union 1884 08 12 dmy 1952 08 12 dmy Writer Joseph Berlin Israel 1877 1952 Architect Lodzia House Gino Boccasile Italy 1901 07 14 dmy 1952 05 10 dmy Illustrator Waldemar Bonsels Germany 1880 02 21 dmy 1952 07 31 dmy Writer Maya the Bee Giuseppe Antonio Borgese Italy 1882 11 12 dmy 1952 12 04 dmy Writer Henriëtte Bosmans Netherlands 1895 12 06 dmy 1952 07 02 dmy Composer Erma Bossi Germany 1875 06 09 dmy 1952 04 14 dmy Painter Sergei BortkiewiczUkraine1877 02 28 dmy1952 10 25 dmyComposerList of compositions by Sergei BortkiewiczMarjorie BowenUnited Kingdom1885 11 01 dmy1952 12 23 dmyWriter Bertram Bracken United States 1879 08 10 dmy 1952 11 01 dmy Film director, screenwriter E. J. Brady Australia 1869 08 07 dmy 1952 07 22 dmy Journalist, poet The Earthen Floor Émile Bréhier France 1876 04 12 dmy 1952 02 03 dmy Philosopher Margaret Wise Brown United States 1910 05 23 dmy 1952 11 13 dmy Writer Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny Paul Bujor Romania 1862 08 02 dmy 1952 05 17 dmy Biologist, writer Delfina Bunge Argentina 1881 12 24 dmy 1952 03 30 dmy Writer Adolf Busch Germany 1891 08 08 dmy 1952 06 09 dmy Musician, composer Jack Caddigan United States 1879 09 21 dmy 1952 01 01 dmy Lyricist "The Rose of No Man's Land" Brun Campbell United States 1884 03 26 dmy 1952 11 23 dmy Composer Adolf Černý Czech Republic 1864 08 19 dmy 1952 12 27 dmy Poet Theo Champion Germany 1887 02 05 dmy 1952 09 20 dmy Painter Wilfred Rowland Childe United Kingdom 1890 1952 Writer Howard Chandler Christy United States 1872 01 10 dmy 1952 03 03 dmy Painter, illustrator Max Clarenbach Germany 1880 05 19 dmy 1952 07 09 dmy Painter Frederick de Jersey Clere New Zealand 1856 01 07 dmy 1952 08 13 dmy Architect St Mary of the Angels, Wellington Marie Closset Belgium 1873 08 16 dmy 1952 07 20 dmy Poet Archie Frederick Collins United States 1869 01 08 dmy 1952 01 03 dmy Inventor, writer The Radio Amateur's Handbook Jack Conway United States 1887 07 17 dmy 1952 10 11 dmy Film director, actor A Tale of Two Cities Romain Coolus France 1868 05 25 dmy 1952 09 09 dmy Playwright André Corthis France 1882 04 15 dmy 1952 08 08 dmy Writer Annie Sophie Cory United Kingdom 1868 10 01 dmy 1952 08 02 dmy Writer Anna Lombard Kathleen Coyle Ireland 1886 10 23 dmy 1952 03 25 dmy Writer Arthur Shearly Cripps United Kingdom 1869 06 10 dmy 1952 08 01 dmy Writer, religious leader Benedetto Croce Italy 1866 02 25 dmy 1952 11 20 dmy Philosopher, historian Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals Edward S. Curtis United States 1868 02 19 dmy 1952 10 19 dmy Photographer, ethnologist In the Land of the Head Hunters Catherine Chisholm Cushing United States 1874 04 15 dmy 1952 10 19 dmy Writer Sebastião da Gama Portugal 1924 04 10 dmy 1952 02 07 dmy Poet Surendranath Dasgupta India 1887 10 08 dmy 1952 12 18 dmy Philosopher Jo Davidson United States 1883 03 30 dmy 1952 01 02 dmy Sculptor Eugenio de Liguoro Italy 1899 03 15 dmy 1952 06 30 dmy Film director, actor John Dewey United States 1859 10 20 dmy 1952 06 01 dmy Philosopher John Dewey bibliography Mikhail Doller Soviet Union 1889 1952 03 15 dmy Film director, screenwriter The End of St. Petersburg Norman Douglas United Kingdom 1868 12 08 dmy 1952 02 07 dmy Writer South Wind Harvey Dunn United States 1884 03 08 dmy 1952 10 29 dmy Painter Henry Edwards United Kingdom 1882 09 18 dmy 1952 11 02 dmy Film director, actor Raymond B. Egan Canada 1890 11 14 dmy 1952 10 13 dmy Songwriter "The Japanese Sandman" Richard Eichberg Germany 1888 10 27 dmy 1952 05 08 dmy Film director The Tiger of Eschnapur, The Indian Tomb Alfred Einstein Germany 1880 12 30 dmy 1952 02 13 dmy Musicologist Otto Eis Austria 1903 03 19 dmy 1952 01 14 dmy Screenwriter George Grant Elmslie United States 1869 02 20 dmy 1952 04 23 dmy Architect Harold C. Bradley House Paul Éluard France 1895 12 14 dmy 1952 11 18 dmy Poet Lydia Field Emmet United States 1866 01 23 dmy 1952 08 16 dmy Painter Philip G. Epstein United States 1909 08 22 dmy 1952 02 07 dmy Screenwriter Casablanca Lucien Fabre France 1889 02 14 dmy 1952 11 26 dmy Writer Ludwig Fahrenkrog Germany 1867 10 20 dmy 1952 10 27 dmy Painter Jeffery Farnol United Kingdom 1878 02 10 dmy 1952 08 09 dmy Writer The Broad Highway Arthur Farwell United States 1872 03 23 dmy 1952 01 20 dmy Composer Itzik Feffer Soviet Union 1900 09 10 dmy 1952 08 12 dmy Poet Macedonio Fernández Argentina 1874 06 01 dmy 1952 02 10 dmy Writer The Museum of Eterna's Novel John Flanagan United States 1865 04 04 dmy 1952 03 28 dmy Sculptor Ernest Florman Sweden 1863 09 20 dmy 1952 09 15 dmy Film director Hugh Ford United States 1868 02 05 dmy 1952 Film director, screenwriter Elena Fortún Spain 1886 11 17 dmy 1952 05 08 dmy Writer Celia, lo que dice Gilbert Frankau United Kingdom 1884 04 21 dmy 1952 11 04 dmy Writer Charles K. French United States 1860 01 17 dmy 1952 08 02 dmy Actor, film director, screenwriter Carl Friedemann Germany 1862 04 29 dmy 1952 04 09 dmy Composer "Kaiser Friedrich Marsch" Svend Gade Denmark 1877 1952 Film director, screenwriter Leonhard Gall Germany 1884 08 24 dmy 1952 01 20 dmy Architect Führerbau Sawai Gandharva India 1886 01 19 dmy 1952 09 12 dmy Singer, teacher John Murray Gibbon Canada 1875 04 12 dmy 1952 07 02 dmy Writer Canadian Mosaic C. P. H. Gilbert United States 1861 08 29 dmy 1952 10 25 dmy Architect Charles Ginner United Kingdom 1878 03 04 dmy 1952 01 06 dmy Painter Charles Buxton Going United States 1863 04 04 dmy 1952 Engineer, writer Percy Gray United States 1869 10 03 dmy 1952 10 10 dmy Painter Sammy Gronemann Germany 1875 03 21 dmy 1952 03 06 dmy Writer René Grousset France 1885 09 05 dmy 1952 09 12 dmy Historian The Empire of the Steppes Ernst Haiger Germany 1874 06 10 dmy 1952 03 15 dmy Architect Covington Hall United States 1871 08 25 dmy 1952 02 21 dmy Activist, writer Halfdan M. Hanson Norway 1884 11 30 dmy 1952 09 12 dmy Architect Our Lady of Good Voyage Church Cicely Hamilton United Kingdom 1872 06 15 dmy 1952 12 06 dmy Writer Gertrude Demain Hammond United Kingdom 1862 1952 07 21 dmy Illustrator Knut Hamsun Norway 1859 08 04 dmy 1952 02 19 dmy Writer, poet Growth of the Soil Hildegarde Hawthorne United States 1871 09 25 dmy 1952 12 10 dmy Writer Sven Hedin Sweden 1865 02 19 dmy 1952 11 26 dmy Geographer, travel writer Through Asia Volume 1 Aaro Hellaakoski Finland 1893 06 22 dmy 1952 11 23 dmy Poet Fletcher Henderson United States 1897 12 18 dmy 1952 12 29 dmy Musician, composer A Study in Frustration Graily Hewitt United Kingdom 1864 1952 Calligrapher, writer Laura Coombs Hills United States 1859 09 07 dmy 1952 02 21 dmy Artist David Hofstein Soviet Union 1889 06 12 dmy 1952 08 12 dmy Poet Hilda Hongell Finland 1867 01 16 dmy 1952 06 10 dmy Architect Curly Howard United States 1903 10 22 dmy 1952 01 18 dmy Actor Felix Huch United States 1880 09 06 dmy 1952 07 06 dmy Writer Billy Hughes Australia 1862 09 25 dmy 1952 10 28 dmy Politician Myron Hunt United States 1868 02 27 dmy 1952 05 26 dmy Architect Bridges Hall of Music Harold Innis Canada 1894 11 05 dmy 1952 11 09 dmy Economist Horace Jackson United States 1898 03 29 dmy 1952 01 26 dmy Screenwriter Frederick Jacobi United States 1891 05 04 dmy 1952 10 24 dmy Composer Rashid Jahan India 1905 08 25 dmy 1952 07 29 dmy Writer Angarey Alan James United States 1890 03 23 dmy 1952 12 30 dmy Film director, screenwriter Enrique Jardiel Poncela Spain 1901 10 15 dmy 1952 02 18 dmy Writer, playwright We Thieves Are Honourable Harry Benjamin Jepson United States 1870 08 16 dmy 1952 08 23 dmy Composer Frances Benjamin Johnston United States 1864 01 15 dmy 1952 05 16 dmy Photographer Owen Johnson United States 1878 08 27 dmy 1952 01 27 dmy Writer Stover at Yale Eugene Jolas United States 1894 10 26 dmy 1952 05 26 dmy Writer Herbert Juttke Germany 1897 1952 Screenwriter David Kakabadze Georgia 1889 08 20 dmy 1952 05 10 dmy Painter Fabjan Kaliterna Croatia 1886 01 20 dmy 1952 01 30 dmy Architect Ariake Kambara Japan 1876 03 15 dmy 1952 02 03 dmy Writer Aleksandr Kamenskij ru Каменский, Александр ДаниловичRussia1900 12 12 dmy1952 11 07 dmyComposer Artur Kapp Estonia 1878 02 28 dmy 1952 01 14 dmy Composer Bernard Karfiol United States 1886 05 06 dmy 1952 08 16 dmy Painter Otto Katz Czech Republic 1895 05 27 dmy 1952 12 03 dmy Agent, writer Elizabeth Kenny Australia 1880 09 12 dmy 1952 11 30 dmy Nurse, physical therapist Frederic G. Kenyon United Kingdom 1863 01 15 dmy 1952 08 23 dmy Historian Rollin Kirby United States 1875 09 04 dmy 1952 05 08 dmy Cartoonist Alexandra Kollontai Russia 1872 03 31 dmy 1952 03 09 dmy Politician, writer Red Love Sadie Koninsky United States 1872 1952 01 02 dmy Composer Kosugi Tengai Japan 1865 11 07 dmy 1952 09 01 dmy Writer Vasyl Krychevsky Ukraine 1873 01 12 dmy 1952 11 15 dmy Painter, architect Coat of arms of Ukraine Masao Kume Japan 1891 11 23 dmy 1952 03 01 dmy Writer Leib Kvitko Soviet Union 1890 10 15 dmy 1952 08 12 dmy Poet Gregory La Cava United States 1892 03 10 dmy 1952 03 01 dmy Film director My Man Godfrey Max Laeuger Germany 1864 09 30 dmy 1952 12 12 dmy Architect, ceramicist Alfred La Liberté Canada 1882 02 10 dmy 1952 05 07 dmy Composer Karel Lamač Czech Republic 1897 01 27 dmy 1952 08 02 dmy Film director William F. Lamb United States 1883 11 21 dmy 1952 09 08 dmy Architect Empire State Building Rued Langgaard Denmark 1893 07 28 dmy 1952 07 10 dmy Composer Music of the Spheres Carlos Alberto Leumann Argentina 1886 1952 Poet Heinrich Lilienfein Germany 1879 11 20 dmy 1952 12 20 dmy Writer Yrjö Lindegren Finland 1900 08 13 dmy 1952 11 12 dmy Architect Helsinki Olympic Stadium Percy Lindsay Australia 1870 09 17 dmy 1952 09 21 dmy Painter Julie M. Lippmann United States 1864 1952 Writer Jessie Lipscomb United Kingdom 1861 06 13 dmy 1952 01 12 dmy Sculptor William J. Long United States 1867 04 03 dmy 1952 Writer Ferdinand Lot France 1866 09 20 dmy 1952 07 20 dmy Historian Andrés Luna de San Pedro Philippines 1887 09 09 dmy 1952 01 22 dmy Architect First United Building Desmond MacCarthy United Kingdom 1877 05 20 dmy 1952 06 07 dmy Writer J. Farrell MacDonald United States 1875 06 06 dmy 1952 08 02 dmy Film director, actor Edward Madden United States 1878 07 17 dmy 1952 03 11 dmy Songwriter Mahjoor India 1887 1952 04 09 dmy Poet Hakob Manandian Armenia 1873 11 10 dmy 1952 02 04 dmy Historian Anna Margolin United States 1887 1952 Poet Peretz Markish Soviet Union 1895 12 07 dmy 1952 08 12 dmy Poet Enrique González Martínez Mexico 1871 04 13 dmy 1952 02 19 dmy Poet H. J. Massingham United Kingdom 1888 03 25 dmy 1952 08 22 dmy Writer, poet Charles Maurras France 1868 04 20 dmy 1952 11 16 dmy Writer Achille Mauzan France 1883 1952 Illustrator William Sutherland Maxwell Canada 1874 11 14 dmy 1952 03 25 dmy Architect Shrine of the Báb J. P. McGowan Australia 1880 02 24 dmy 1952 03 26 dmy Actor, film director The Hazards of Helen, The Hurricane ExpressE. H. W. MeyersteinUnited Kingdom1889 08 11 dmy1952 09 12 dmy Writer, scholar Robert Minor United States 1884 07 15 dmy 1952 01 26 dmy Cartoonist Mir-Jam Serbia 1887 04 22 dmy 1952 12 22 dmy Writer Ferenc Molnár Hungary 1878 01 12 dmy 1952 04 01 dmy Writer, playwright The Paul Street Boys, Liliom Montéhus France 1872 07 09 dmy 1952 Songwriter Italo Montemezzi Italy 1875 08 04 dmy 1952 05 15 dmy Composer L'amore dei tre re Maria Montessori Italy 1870 08 31 dmy 1952 05 06 dmy Educator Irving Morrow United States 1884 09 22 dmy 1952 10 28 dmy Architect Golden Gate Bridge Lodewijk Mortelmans Belgium 1868 02 05 dmy 1952 06 24 dmy Composer Willy Mullens Netherlands 1880 10 04 dmy 1952 04 21 dmy Film director Keith Murdoch Australia 1885 08 12 dmy 1952 10 04 dmy Journalist Matija Murko Slovenia 1861 02 10 dmy 1952 02 11 dmy Literary historian Herbert Murrill United Kingdom 1909 05 11 dmy 1952 07 25 dmy Composer Bangalore Nagarathnamma India 1878 11 03 dmy 1952 05 19 dmy Singer, writer Ghulam Bhik Nairang Pakistan 1876 09 26 dmy 1952 10 16 dmy Poet, politician Shinpei Nakayama Japan 1887 03 22 dmy 1952 12 30 dmy Songwriter "Katyusha's song" Alfred Neumann Germany 1895 10 15 dmy 1952 10 03 dmy Writer John O'Brien Australia 1878 10 13 dmy 1952 12 27 dmy Priest, poet "Said Hanrahan" Ivan Olbracht Czech Republic 1882 01 06 dmy 1952 12 20 dmy Writer Nikola Šuhaj loupežník Herbert Arnould Olivier United Kingdom 1861 09 09 dmy 1952 03 02 dmy Painter Paul Ondrusch Germany 1875 06 04 dmy 1952 09 29 dmy Sculptor Joseph O'Neill Ireland 1886 1952 05 06 dmy Writer Vittorio Emanuele Orlando Italy 1860 05 19 dmy 1952 12 01 dmy Politician Henry Otto United States 1877 08 08 dmy 1952 08 03 dmy Film director, actor Fulton Oursler United States 1893 01 22 dmy 1952 05 24 dmy Writer The Greatest Story Ever Told Russell Owen United States 1889 01 08 dmy 1952 04 03 dmy Journalist South of the Sun Frances Theodora Parsons United States 1861 12 05 dmy 1952 06 10 dmy Naturalist, writer Jack Parsons United States 1914 10 02 dmy 1952 06 17 dmy Engineer, occultist Teixeira de Pascoaes Portugal 1877 11 02 dmy 1952 12 14 dmy Writer Raymond Pech France 1876 02 04 dmy 1952 07 03 dmy Writer Constant Permeke Belgium 1886 07 31 dmy 1952 01 04 dmy Painter, sculptor Eva Perón Argentina 1919 05 07 dmy 1952 07 26 dmy Politician, actress La razón de mi vida Paul Pierné France 1874 06 30 dmy 1952 03 24 dmy Composer Ladislaus Pilars de Pilar Poland 1874 03 03 dmy 1952 11 22 dmy Poet Arthur Pink United Kingdom 1886 04 01 dmy 1952 07 15 dmy Writer Charles Plisnier Belgium 1896 12 13 dmy 1952 07 17 dmy Writer Faux passeports Pedro Prado Chile 1886 10 08 dmy 1952 01 31 dmy Writer Chilukuri Narayana Rao India 1890 1952 Writer Hugo Raudsepp Estonia 1896 12 13 dmy 1952 07 17 dmy Writer, politician Karl Ludvig Reichelt Norway 1877 09 01 dmy 1952 03 13 dmy Writer Elizabeth Robins United States 1862 08 06 dmy 1952 05 08 dmy Writer Lou Rogers United States 1879 11 26 dmy 1952 03 11 dmy Cartoonist Henriette Roland Holst Netherlands 1869 12 24 dmy 1952 11 21 dmy Poet A. S. W. Rosenbach United States 1876 07 22 dmy 1952 07 01 dmy Collector, writer William Roughead United Kingdom 1870 1952 Writer, lawyer Joan Rubió Spain 1870 04 24 dmy 1952 11 30 dmy Architect Edwin L. Sabin United States 1870 12 23 dmy 1952 11 24 dmy Writer Wadia Sabra Lebanon 1876 02 23 dmy 1952 04 11 dmy Composer Olaf Saile Germany 1901 08 27 dmy 1952 06 29 dmy Writer George Santayana Spain 1863 12 16 dmy 1952 09 26 dmy Philosopher, writer The Life of Reason Garimella Satyanarayana India 1893 07 14 dmy 1952 12 18 dmy Poet Fred Sauer Austria 1886 12 14 dmy 1952 09 17 dmy Film director, screenwriter Jurgis Savickis Lithuania 1890 05 04 dmy 1952 12 22 dmy Writer Alberto Savinio Italy 1891 08 25 dmy 1952 05 05 dmy Writer, composer Wilhelm Schäfer Germany 1868 01 20 dmy 1952 01 19 dmy Writer Laurence Dwight Smith United States 1895 1952 Writer Georg Schumann Germany 1866 10 25 dmy 1952 05 23 dmy Composer Vincent Scotto France 1874 04 21 dmy 1952 11 15 dmy Composer Philip Walsingham Sergeant United Kingdom 1872 01 27 dmy 1952 10 20 dmy Writer Modern Chess Openings Franz Seitz Sr. Germany 1887 04 14 dmy 1952 03 07 dmy Film director, screenwriter Carlo Sforza Italy 1872 01 24 dmy 1952 09 04 dmy Politician Ilya Shatrov Russia 1879 04 01 dmy 1952 05 02 dmy Composer "On the Hills of Manchuria" Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik Russia 1874 01 24 dmy 1952 07 27 dmy Writer, translator Vladimir Shcherbachov Soviet Union 1889 01 24 dmy 1952 03 05 dmy Composer Maria Shkapskaya Soviet Union 1891 10 15 dmy 1952 09 07 dmy Writer Rudolf Sieczyński Austria 1879 02 23 dmy 1952 05 05 dmy Composer "Vienna, City of My Dreams" Renato Simoni Italy 1875 09 05 dmy 1952 07 05 dmy Playwright Turandot Christopher Arthur Smith Australia 1892 11 19 dmy 1952 03 02 dmy Architect Capri Theatre, Peterborough Town Hall Leo Smith United Kingdom 1881 11 26 dmy 1952 04 18 dmy Composer Herman Sörgel Germany 1885 04 02 dmy 1952 12 25 dmy Architect Niles Spencer United States 1893 05 16 dmy 1952 05 15 dmy Painter Jaap Speyer Netherlands 1891 1952 Film director Fráňa Šrámek Czech Republic 1877 01 19 dmy 1952 07 01 dmy Writer Malcolm St. Clair United States 1897 05 17 dmy 1952 06 01 dmy Film director Władysław Strzemiński Poland 1893 11 21 dmy 1952 12 26 dmy Painter Gusztáv Szerémi Hungary 1877 05 09 dmy 1952 08 16 dmy Composer Ray Taylor United States 1888 12 01 dmy 1952 02 15 dmy Film director Giovanni Tebaldini Italy 1864 09 07 dmy 1952 05 11 dmy Composer Teffi Russia 1872 05 21 dmy 1952 10 06 dmy Writer Josephine Tey United Kingdom 1896 07 25 dmy 1952 02 13 dmy Writer The Daughter of Time Jean Tharaud France 1877 05 09 dmy 1952 04 08 dmy Writer Anna-Lisa Thomson Sweden 1905 09 20 dmy 1952 02 12 dmy Ceramist Henriette Tirman France 1875 1952 10 30 dmy Painter John Treloar Australia 1894 12 10 dmy 1952 01 28 dmy Museum administrator Lamar Trotti United States 1900 10 18 dmy 1952 08 28 dmy Screenwriter Josef Thorak Austria 1889 02 07 dmy 1952 02 26 dmy Sculptor Uncle Dave Macon United States 1870 10 07 dmy 1952 03 22 dmy Singer-songwriter Fartein Valen Norway 1887 08 25 dmy 1952 12 14 dmy Composer Antonio María Valencia Colombia 1902 11 10 dmy 1952 07 22 dmy Composer Lodewijk van Deyssel Netherlands 1864 09 22 dmy 1952 01 26 dmy Writer Johan van Hell Netherlands 1889 02 28 dmy 1952 12 31 dmy Artist Louis Valtat France 1869 08 08 dmy 1952 01 02 dmy Painter Louis Verneuil France 1893 05 14 dmy 1952 11 03 dmy Playwright Clara Viebig Germany 1860 07 17 dmy 1952 07 31 dmy Writer Roger Vitrac France 1899 11 17 dmy 1952 01 22 dmy Playwright, poet Ellen Roosval von Hallwyl Sweden 1867 1952 Artist Karl Wach Germany 1878 01 07 dmy 1952 06 21 dmy Architect Lars Israel Wahlman Sweden 1870 04 17 dmy 1952 09 18 dmy Architect Tjolöholm Castle H. T. Webster United States 1885 09 21 dmy 1952 09 22 dmy Cartoonist Caspar Milquetoast Adolph Alexander Weinman United States 1870 12 11 dmy 1952 08 08 dmy Sculptor Walking Liberty half dollar, Mercury dime Percy Wenrich United States 1885 09 21 dmy 1952 09 22 dmy Composer "Sail Along, Silv'ry Moon" Roland West United States 1885 02 20 dmy 1952 03 31 dmy Film director Alberto Williams Argentina 1862 11 23 dmy 1952 06 17 dmy Composer Poema del Iguazú Hans Wittwer Switzerland 1894 02 04 dmy 1952 03 19 dmy Architect ADGB Trade Union School Paramahansa Yogananda India 1893 01 05 dmy 1952 03 07 dmy Yogi, writer Autobiography of a Yogi Ellsworth Young United States 1866 1952 Artist Ernst Zahn Switzerland 1867 01 24 dmy 1952 02 12 dmy Writer Frau Sixta Lee Woodward Zeigler United States 1868 05 07 dmy 1952 06 16 dmy Illustrator 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, works never registered or published before January 1, 1978, and whose authors died before 1933 entered the public domain in this jurisdiction on January 1, 2003.https://www.copyright.gov/pr/pdomain.html Certain Unpublished, Unregistered Works Enter Public Domain United States Copyright Office 2003-01-13 2026-03-05 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 See also 1902 in literature, 1932 in literature and 1952 in literature for deaths of writers Public Domain Day Creative Commons References Category:Public domain by year Public domain