When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of works that entered the public domain in 2005. 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.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, 2005.
Names Country Birth Death Occupation Notable work Jakob Wassermann novelist. Melusine, The Maurizius Case, My Life as German and Jew Dorothy Edwards novelist, short story writer. Rhapsody, Winter Sonata Andrei Bely novelist, poet, literary critic. Petersburg, The Silver Dove Helen Zimmern children's writer, biographer, political writer, translator. Arthur Schopenhauer, his Life and his Philosophy, Tripoli and Young Italy Hermann Bahr novelist, playwright, art critic, literary critic. The Concert, Expressionism Ferenc Móra novelist, journalist, museologist. Sons of the Slave Man, A Journey in the Underground Hungary, Suns, Moons, Bygone Stars Emeline Harriet Howe poet. Poems, A Basket of Fragments, From Height to Height Thomas Anstey Guthrie comic novelist, parodist, humorist. Vice Versa, The Man from Blankley's, The Tinted Venus Safvet-beg Bašagić biographer, poet, bibliographer, translator. Bosnians and Herzegovinians in Islamic literature, Illustrious Croats - Bosnians and Herzegovinians in the Ottoman empire R. C. Packer journalist, newspaper editor, publisher. founder of Smith's Weekly and the Daily Guardian Paul Zarifopol literary critic, social critic, essayist, literary historian, magazine publisher. founder of Revista Fundațiilor Regale, writer of A Register of Tender Ideas, Artists and Ideas in Romanian Literature John Gray poet, novelist, translator. Park: A Fantastic Story, Silverpoints, Spiritual Poems, chiefly done out of several languages Thorne Smith fantasy writer, comedy writer, mystery writer, poet, screenwriter. Topper, Topper Takes a Trip, The Night Life of the Gods, Turnabout Naitō Konan historian, Sinologist. Nara Fritz Gerlich journalist, historian, political writer, satirist. The Testament of Henry VI, Communism as the Theory of the Thousand Year Reich, Does Hitler Have Mongolian Blood? Karl-Günther Heimsoth physician, sexologist, homosexual activist, astrologist. Hetero- and Homophilia, Love Between Friends or Homosexuality, Character Constellation: With Particular Reference to Homosexuality Willi Schmid music critic, musician. music critic for the Münchener Neueste Nachrichten, founder of the music band Munich Viol Quartet Hayim Nahman Bialik poet, essayist, translator, publisher, folklorist. In the City of Slaughter, Sefer HaAggadah Julian Hawthorne novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, travel writer, biographer, historian. The Great Bank Robbery, An American Penman, A Tragic Mystery, Section 558, Another's Crime Karl Joel philosopher. Nietzsche und die Romantik, Ursprung der Naturphilosophie aus dem Geiste der Mystik, Geschichte der antiken Philosophie Frane Bulić archaeologist, historian. Croatian monuments in the Knin area and Dalmatia from the age of Croatian national dynasties, Palace of Emperor Diocletian in Split, The steps of the Croatian national rulers Mary Hunter Austin nature writer, playwright. The Land of Little Rain, The Arrow Maker, Taos Pueblo Rebecca Richardson Joslin essayist, historian. Chasing Eclipses: The Total Solar Eclipses of 1905, 1914, 1925, 1929, Essays on Early Years of Charles V. in Spain, War of the Comuneros, Rival Claimants to the Spanish Throne, French Influence in Spain, Italian Literature in the Time of Charles III. of Spain Roger Fry painter, art critic, essayist, translator. An essay in Aesthetics, Art History as an Academic Study, The Artist and Psycho-Analysis, Flemish Art Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică literary critic, biographer, editor, translator. The Romanians and the Jews, Pointless Literature (of Course by Lucian Blaga)) Arthur Wing Pinero playwright, actor. The Magistrate, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, Trelawny of the "Wells", The Gay Lord Quex Gustave Lanson historian, literary critic, biographer. Molière and Farce, The New Poetry in France, The Modern Subjects in Secondary Education Wallace Thurman novelist, screenwriter, playwright, ghostwriter, essayist, satirist, editor, publisher. The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life in Harlem, Infants of the Spring Cora Linn Daniels mystery novelist, poet, newspaper editor, journalist, folklorist, encyclopedia writer. The Bronze Buddha: A Mystery, As It Is To Be, Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World: A Comprehensive Library of Human Belief and Practice in the Mysteries of Life
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 Alexander Abasheli Writer Sait Faik Abasıyanık Writer Semaver Ahmed Agdamski Singer If Not That One, Then This One Franco Alfano Composer List of operas by Franco Alfano Juan Álvarez Historian Essay on the history of Santa Fe Maximiano Alves Sculptor Selected works Ahmad Amin Writer Dawn of Islam Martin Andersen Nexø Writer Pelle the Conqueror Oswald de Andrade Writer Manifesto Antropófago Bruno Angoletta Cartoonist Marmittone Peter van Anrooy Composer Piet Hein Rhapsodie voor symfonieorkest John L. Balderston Playwright Berkeley Square, Dracula Lionel Barrymore Actor, film director Lionel Barrymore on stage, screen and radio Constantin Beldie Journalist, writer Gloss on the Bookish Spirit Jacinto Benavente Writer The Unloved Woman Frans G. Bengtsson Writer The Long Ships Maxwell Bodenheim novelist, poet, memoirist, journalist. My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village Hakon Børresen Composer Den Kongelige Gæst Vitaliano Brancati Writer Don Giovanni in Sicilia / Painter Pejzaż zimowy Walter Braunfels Composer Die Vögel Pauline Brunius Actress, film director False Greta Claude Cahun Photographer, writer Disavowals or Cancelled Confessions Robert Capa Photographer The Falling Soldier Writer Papa Celestin Musician Papa Celestin's Golden Wedding E. K. Chambers Literary scholar The Elizabethan Stage Architect Eugen Coca Composer Maria's Fortune Colette Writer Gigi Julian Coolidge Mathematician A Treatise on the Circle and the Sphere Duff Cooper Politician, historian Old Men Forget Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha Socialite Doida, Não! Stig Dagerman Writer, journalist A Burnt Child Jibanananda Das Poet Banalata Sen Ludovic Dauș Writer, translator Unto Death Russell Davenport Writer My Country, A Poem of America Alcide De Gasperi Politician Nella lotta per la democrazia Photographer, camera operator Earth André Derain Painter, sculptor Mountains at Collioure Leonard Eugene Dickson Mathematician, writer History of the Theory of Numbers Nadiya Dobrovolska-Zavadska / Geneticist Sur la mortification spontanée de la queue chez la souris nouveau-née et sur l'existence d'un caractère (facteur) héréditaire "non-viable" Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski Geophysicist Historia naturalna lodu Writer Star Fortress Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin / Photographer Carl Eldh Sculptor The Branting Monument Enrico Fermi / Physicist Publications Arthur Fickenscher Composer and academic Willowwood Bud Fisher Cartoonist Mutt and Jeff Painter Miles Franklin Writer My Brilliant Career Wilhelm Furtwängler Conductor, composer Symphony No. 2 Jacques Gachot / Painter Paintings by Jacques Gachot Nina Genke-Meller Painter Suprematist Composition E. Ray Goetz Composer, lyricist "For Me and My Gal"Lil GreenSinger, songwriter"Why Don't You Do Right?", "Romance in the Dark" W. J. Gruffydd Writer, scholar Lyrics Heinz Guderian Military officer, writer Achtung – Panzer!, Panzer Leader Niqula Haddad 1878 1954 Writer Thea von Harbou Writer, film director List of works by Thea von Harbou Jack Harvey Film director A Dog's Love Ferenc Herczeg Writer A Gyurkovics-lányok James Hilton Writer Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon Ludwik Hirszfeld Microbiologist Über Vererbung gruppenspezifischer Strukturen des Blutes Earnest Hooton Anthropologist, cartoonist Up From The Ape / Writer, translator The Escape of Oleksa Perkhun Raymond Hubbell Composer, lyricist "Poor Butterfly" Ivan Ilyin / Philosopher Charles Ives Composer List of compositions by Charles Ives Ayaz İshaki / Writer Norbert Jacques Writer Dr. Mabuse Hans Janowitz Screenwriter The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Arthur Johnston Composer "Cocktails for Two", "Pennies from Heaven" Frida Kahlo Painter List of paintings by Frida Kahlo Mikhas Klimkovich Poet "My Belarusy" Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius Writer, politician Skirgaila Kalki Krishnamurthy Writer Ponniyin Selvan Sculptor Grave of Tadeusz Rutowski Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels Political theorist Ostara Henri Laurens Sculptor L'Amphion Alphonse Laverrière Architect Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery Édouard Le Roy Philosopher, mathematician Les Origines humaines et l'évolution de l'intelligence Alain LeRoy Locke Writer The New Negro Pyotr Leshchenko / Singer HeartAchille Longo ComposerCompositionsGino Loria MathematicianBooks Auguste Lumière Film director Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory Wincenty Lutosławski Philosopher The Polish Nation Jan Maklakiewicz Composer Cagliostro in Warsaw Architect Interiors of Derzhprom William March Writer Company K Santiago Martínez Delgado Painter, sculptor, art historian Mural at the Colombian Capitol Henri Matisse Painter, sculptor List of works by Henri Matisse Joe May Film director Stuart Webbs George McManus Cartoonist Bringing Up Father Emilis Melngailis / Composer Maija (Turaidas roze) Mihri Müşfik Hanım 1954 Painter Zofia Nałkowska Writer Medallions Herms Niel Composer "Erika" Aleksandr Orlov Astronomer Selected works in 3 volumes Yukio Ozaki Politician The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan Auguste Perret Architect Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Washington Phillips Singer List of songs recorded by Washington Phillips Dimitrie Pompeiu Mathematician Sur la continuité des fonctions de variables complexes Fred Raymond Composer "I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg", Maske in Blau / Painter Tyurenchen. Eternal life in a glorious death Grantland Rice Sportswriter Songs of the Stalwart Fred Rose Songwriter "Be Honest with Me" Luang Saranupraphan Writer "Thai National Anthem" Leon Schiller Screenwriter / Diplomat, literary scientist Zur Geschichte des Natureinganges bei den Trobadors C. Fox Smith Writer All the Way Round: Sea Roads to Africa Oscar Straus Composer Ein Walzertraum Ionel Teodoreanu Writer La Medeleni Lucien Tesnière Linguist Elements of Structural Syntax Jan Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz / Diplomat, heraldist Diariy Getmana Pylypa Orlika Alan Turing Mathematician Turing's proof William Van Alen Architect Chrysler Building Getúlio Vargas Politician Carta Testamento Dziga Vertov Film director Man with a Movie Camera Painter Taureaux à l'abreuvoir Literary scholar History of Ukrainian literature Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen Composer Oberst Chabert Clara Westhoff Sculptor Bust of Paula Modersohn-Becker Eduard Wiiralt Graphic artist Hell Chester Wilmot War Correspondent The Struggle for Europe Hella Wuolijoki Writer Entäs nyt, Niskavuori? Yuriy Yanovskyi Writer Francis Brett Young Writer List of novels of Francis Brett Young Zhang Shichuan 1890 1954 Film director Laborer's Love
Entering the public domain in the United States