Talk:2021 in public domain

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I'd forgotten to login before adding 1970 deaths.--Maher27777 (talk) 14:46, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

More about copyright laws

 * Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (for example) was a book written by an author died in 1950, and published in the USA in 1942. What is the expiration date of its copyright? 2021-1-1 (70 years at least after the author's death), or 2038-1-1 (95 at least after publishing)?!
 * Moreover, we need to know the copyright expiration date of European films.--Maher27777 (talk) 22:18, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
 * 95 years after the first publication (this applies to all US works published before 1978), assuming the clauses do not apply (such as failure to extend copyright etc).--Ymblanter (talk) 22:22, 20 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Different countries have different copyright laws and whether or not works can be posted on the internet in their entirety depends on where the site is hosted. It's true that Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy will not be in the public domain in the United States until 2037. The book's original English text is however, already in the public domain in several countries where works enter the public domain 50 years after their authors die. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy is an example of a work that could be hosted on Wikilivres, a wiki where I am one of the admins. Wikilivres is hosted in New Zealand and follows New Zealand copyright law. The text would, however, have to be in English unless the translator had also been dead for 50 years or if the translator had otherwise released it into the public domain. So if you want to translate the entire book into Arabic and post it on Wikilivres, you can! (This paragraph is written by Simon Peter Hughes).
 * The term "hosted" may be meaningless in the internet era. That is, the Canadian websites can offer this work freely since 2001-1-1, why should the Europeans wait for 2021, and the Americans wait for 2038 to download this work?--Maher27777 (talk) 08:01, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Given the proposed changes to Canada's copyright laws, the country of origin becomes important. Of course, geoblocks will likely increase in the future, Project Gutenberg has to geoblock Germans because of a German publishing company making demands of Gutenberg in the US(since it has pre-1923 German texts from authors who died after 1948).  But yeah, I love wikilivres, it is an effective backup to Commons in case of URAA trash fire deletions, and can host PD-old-50 works that would not be able to be on Commons for years to come.  Hopefully the 1924 and afterwards Upton Sinclair texts and the works of John Steinbeck will come over there eventually.  Abzeronow (talk) 15:58, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
 * European films will generally enter the public domain in the United States 95 years after their release. According to British copyright law, a film only enters the public domain 70 years after the last of these people has died: the principal director, the screenplay writer, dialogue writers, the composer of music specifically created for the film. That means that several British films will enter the public domain in the US before they do in the UK. In future, many more videos of European films could be posted here on Wikipedia and on Wikisource, where works only have to be in the public domain in the United States. Many of those videos could not, however, be posted on Wikimedia Commons, where all material has to be in the public domain in both the United States and its country of origin, if different. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 05:26, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

I think we need a note clarifying the legal status of "Multi-national" works, especially for European authors whom their works had been printed in USA, or vice versa. A good example is Galeazzo Ciano, and Erwin Rommel, who had written private papers that would eventually be collected, translated, published in USA. Their works fell in public domain in Europe in 2015 (seventy years after their deaths). But in The United States, we have to wait another twenty to thirty years to utilize their works freely (Actually, I've downloaded their papers freely!).
 * Another example is the British economist John Maynard Keynes, who published his General Theory.. deliberately in USA in 1936. All of Keynes's works fell in public domain in Europe in 2017 (seventy years after his death), but this work would not do so in USA until 2032!--Maher27777 (talk) 21:47, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

About J. Carlos works?
J. Carlos was died in October 2, 1950 and in October 2, 2020 will be the 70th anniversary of the death of J. Carlos, and this all indicates that in countries where the duration of copyright is Life + 70 years after the author's death after J. Carlos's works entered the public domain in 2021. - 177.79.23.77 (talk) 15:22, 29 November 2019 (UTC).
 * Copyright expired at the end of the 70th calendar year after his death, that is, December 31, 2020.--Maher27777 (talk) 21:02, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

George Bernard Shaw
Shaw was born in Dublin, and moved to London when he was 20, the Irish flag should be next to his name — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tetsujin1979 (talk • contribs) 15:53, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Added the Irish flag to the UK flag since he had citizenship in both. Abzeronow (talk) 17:29, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Spanish authors
FYI the Spanish authors I'm adding (in the +80 years section) come from the list of public domain authors published by the National Library of Spain. There is a small selection and a full list of 166 authors. --MarioGom (talk) 19:58, 4 January 2021 (UTC)