2031 in public domain

The literature of Albert Camus (left) and Boris Pasternak (right) will enter the public domain in Europe in 2031.

When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform. The following is a list of creators whose works enter the public domain in 2031 under the most common copyright regimes.

This list is based on current copyright laws and regulations, which are subject to change without notice.

Countries with life + 70 years

Except for Belarus (Life + 50 years)^[1] and Spain (which has a copyright term of Life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988), a work enters the public domain in Europe 70 years after the creator's death, if it was published during the creator's lifetime.^[2]^[3] In addition, several other countries have a limit of 70 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Chris van Abkoude	Netherlands	6 November 1880	2 January 1960	Writer, Novelist	Pietje Bell
Vai. Mu. Kothainayaki Ammal	India	1 December 1901	20 February 1960	Novelist
Lady Cynthia Asquith	United Kingdom	27 September 1887	31 March 1960	Author and editor	This Mortal Coil
Rajshekhar Basu	India	16 March 1880	27 April 1960	Chemist
Eric Temple Bell	United Kingdom United States	7 February 1883	21 December 1960	Mathematician and science fiction writer
Albert Camus	France	7 November 1913	4 January 1960	Philosopher, author	The Stranger
A. Chakravarti	India	17 May 1880	10 February 1960	Professor
Indira Devi Chaudhurani	India	29 December 1873	12 August 1960	Musician
Sudhindranath Dutta	India	30 October 1901	25 June 1960	Poet, journalist
Victor Rousseau Emanuel	United Kingdom	2 January 1879	6 April 1960	Author
John Russell Fearn	United Kingdom	5 June 1908	18 September 1960	Author
M. Raghava Iyengar	India	1870	1960	Literary scholar
Jigar Moradabadi	India	6 April 1890	9 September 1960	Poet	Yeh Hai Maikada
Bal Krishna Sharma Naveen	India	8 December 1897	29 April 1960	Poet, journalist, activist
Elsie J. Oxenham	United Kingdom	25 November 1880	9 January 1960	Children's novelist	Abbey Series of books
Boris Pasternak	Russia	10 February 1890	30 May 1960	Poet, author	Doctor Zhivago
Eden Phillpotts	United Kingdom	4 November 1862	29 December 1960	Author, poet and dramatist	The Farmer's Wife
Kesari Balakrishna Pillai	India	23 April 1889	18 December 1960	Literary critic, journalist	Kesari
Nathuram Premi	India	26 January 1881	30 January 1960	Poet, publisher
Navaratna Rama Rao	India	27 May 1877	1960	Political leader, scholar
Sushila Samad	India	7 June 1996	10 December 1960	Poet, journalist
Sripada Krishnamurty Sastry	India	29 October 1866	29 December 1960	Poet	Mahamahopadhyaya
Kshitimohan Sen	India	2 December 1880	12 March 1960	Professor
Acharya Chatursen Shastri	India	26 August 1891	2 February 1960	Writer	Dharamputra
Krishnalal Shridharani	India	16 September 1911	23 July 1960	Poet, playwright
Nevil Shute	United Kingdom	17 January 1899	12 January 1960	Aeronautical engineer, novelist	On the Beach
Victor Sjöström	Sweden	20 September 1879	3 January 1960	Film director, actor	The Phantom Carriage
C. J. Thomas	India	14 November 1918	14 July 1960	Playwright, academic, artist
Dadasaheb Torne	India	13 April 1890	19 January 1960	Film director	Shree Pundalik

Countries with life + 60 years

In Bangladesh, India, and Venezuela a work enters the public domain 60 years after the creator's death.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Abdul Hosein Amini	Iran	1902	3 July 1970	Theologian	Al-Ghadir
Rita Angus	New Zealand	12 March 1908	25 January 1970	Painter	Cass
Shmuel Yosef Agnon	Israel	17 July 1888	17 February 1970	Writer	The Bridal Canopy
Fernando Arbello	Puerto Rico	30 May 1907	26 July 1970	Musician
Otto Baecker	Germany	7 January 1898	22 May 1970	Cinematographer	Gold
Archibald Baxter	New Zealand	13 December 1881	10 August 1970	Socialist, pacifist	We Will Not Cease
William Beaudine	United States	15 January 1892	18 March 1970	Film director, actor	Boys Will Be Boys
George Blair	United States	6 December 1905	19 April 1970	Film Director
R. V. C. Bodley	United Kingdom	3 March 1892	26 May 1970	Army officer, author	Algeria From Within
Louise Bogan	United States	11 August 1897	4 February 1970	Poet	Body of This Death
Vera Brittain	United Kingdom	29 December 1893	29 March 1970	Writer	Testament of Youth
William J. Brown	United States	10 December 1878	4 February 1970	Architect
Mohamed Fadhel Ben Achour	Tunisia	16 October 1909	20 April 1970	Theologian	Works
Dulce Carman	New Zealand	1883	1970	Author	Neath the Maori Moon
Rudolf Carnap	Germany	18 May 1891	14 September 1970	Philosopher	Der Logische Aufbau der Welt
Choe Hyeon-bae	South Korea	19 October 1894	23 March 1970	Educationalist	Selected publications
Émile Coderre [fr]	Canada	10 June 1893	6 April 1970	Poet	Works
Charles Cotton	New Zealand	24 February 1885	29 June 1970	Geologist	Geomorphology of New Zealand
Mohamed Abdelaziz Djaït	Tunisia	1886	5 January 1970	Theologian	Works
William Dobell	Australia	24 September 1899	13 May 1970	Artist	Mr Joshua Smith
Guy Endore	United States	4 July 1901	12 February 1970	Author, screenwriter	The Werewolf of Paris
E. M. Forster	United Kingdom	1 January 1879	7 June 1970	Writer	Works
Babbis Friis-Baastad	Norway	21 August 1921	10 January 1970	Children's writer	Ikke ta Bamse
Erle Stanley Gardner	United States	17 July 1889	11 March 1970	Author, lawyer	Perry Mason series of books
Maurice Gemayel	Lebanon	1910	31 October 1970	Politician	Tripoli and Decentralization
L. Wolfe Gilbert	United States	31 August 1886	12 July 1970	Songwriter	Down Yonder
Rube Goldberg	United States	4 July 1883	7 December 1970	Cartoonist, News reporter, Sculptor, Engineer
John Gunther	United States	30 August 1901	29 May 1970	Author	Death Be Not Proud
Muhsin al-Hakim	Iraq	1889	1970	Theologian	Minhaj as-Saleheen
Alice Hamilton	United States	27 February 1869	22 September 1970	Physician, research scientist	Industrial Poisons in the United States
Lawren Harris	Canada	23 October 1885	29 January 1970	Painter
Marlen Haushofer	Austria	11 April 1920	21 March 1970	Writer
Erich Heckel	Germany	31 July 1883	27 January 1970	Artist	Roquairol
Jimi Hendrix	United States	27 November 1942	18 September 1970	Musician, singer-songwriter	"Purple Haze"
Roman Ingarden	Poland	5 February 1893	14 June 1970	Philosopher	The Literary Work of Art
Michał Kalecki	Poland	22 June 1899	18 April 1970	Economist	Próba teorii koniunktury
William Archibald Mackintosh	Canada	21 May 1895	29 December 1970	Economist	Economic Problems Of The Prairie Provinces
Leopoldo Marechal	Argentina	11 June 1900	26 June 1970	Writer	Adam Buenosayres
François Mauriac	France	11 October 1885	1 September 1970	Writer	Thérèse Desqueyroux
Bruce McLaren	New Zealand	30 August 1937	2 June 1970	Racing car driver	Bruce McLaren: From the Cockpit
Yukio Mishima	Japan	14 January 1925	25 November 1970	Novelist, playwright, poet, writer, essayist, critic	Works
Gamal Abdel Nasser	Egypt	15 January 1918	28 September 1970	Politician	Philosophy of Revolution
Charles Olson	United States	27 December 1910	10 January 1970	Poet	Works
John Dos Passos	United States	14 January 1896	28 September 1970	Novelist	U.S.A. trilogy
Waldo Peirce	United States	17 December 1884	8 March 1970	Painter	Legends of the Hudson
Vladimir Propp	Russia	29 April 1895	22 August 1970	Folklorist	Morphology of the Tale
Alf Prøysen	Norway	23 July 1914	23 November 1970	Musician, Writer, Composer	Works
Erich Maria Remarque	Germany	22 June 1898	25 September 1970	Novelist	All Quiet on the Western Front
Ali Riahi	Tunisia	30 March 1912	27 March 1970	Musician
Gonzalo Roig	Cuba	20 July 1890	13 June 1970	Composer	Cecilia Valdés
Mark Rothko	United States	25 September 1903	25 February 1970	Abstract painter	Black on Maroon
Bertrand Russell	United Kingdom	18 May 1872	2 February 1970	Philosopher, mathematician	Principia Mathematica
Nelly Sachs	German Empire Sweden	10 October 1891	12 May 1970	Poet, Writer	Works
Ruth Sawyer	United States	5 August 1880	3 June 1970	Writer	Roller Skates
Slim Harpo	United States	11 January 1924	31 January 1970	Blues Musician	I'm a King Bee
William Stewart Wallace	Canada	23 June 1884	11 March 1970	Historian	Encyclopedia of Canada
Hassan Taqizadeh	Iran	27 September 1878	28 January 1970	Politician	Old Iranian Calendars
Sophie Treadwell	United States	3 October 1885	20 February 1970	Playwright	Machinal
Jacob Viner	Canada	3 May 1892	12 September 1970	Economist	Works
Otto Heinrich Warburg	Germany	8 October 1883	1 August 1970	Physiologist	The Metabolism of Tumours
Leonard Wild	New Zealand	28 October 1889	23 July 1970	Agricultural scientist, writer	An Experiment in Self-government, Soils and Manures in New Zealand
Harry M. Woods	United States	4 November 1896	14 January 1970	Songwriter	When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)
Abraham Zapruder	United States	15 May 1905	30 August 1970	Clothing manufacturer	Zapruder film
Mahmoud Zulfikar	Egypt	18 February 1914	22 May 1970	Director

Countries with life + 50 years

In most countries of Africa and Asia, as well as Belarus, Bolivia, New Zealand, Egypt and Uruguay, a work enters the public domain 50 years after the creator's death.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Joy Adamson	Kenya	20 January 1910	3 January 1980	Conservationist, writer	Born Free
Todhunter Ballard	United States	14 December 1903	27 December 1980	Genre novelist
Roland Barthes	France	12 November 1915	25 March 1980	Literary theorist	Mythologies, "The Death of the Author"
Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy	Ireland	6 June 1913	9 November 1980	Journalist, humorist
Alejo Carpentier	Cuba	26 December 1904	24 April 1980	Novelist, writer	The Kingdom of this World
Amy Clarke	United Kingdom	21 December 1892	20 June 1980	Mystical poet
Margaret Cole	United Kingdom	6 May 1893	7 May 1980	Political writer, biographer, activist
John Collier	United Kingdom	3 May 1901	6 April 1980	Short story writer
Marc Connelly	United States	13 December 1890	21 December 1980	Playwright
Sam Cree	Northern Ireland	19 February 1928	26 October 1980	Playwright
Gareth Evans	United Kingdom	12 May 1946	10 August 1980	Philosopher
George Sutherland Fraser	Scotland	8 November 1915	3 January 1980	Poet, critic
Romain Gary	France	21 May 1914	2 December 1980	Novelist	Les Racines du ciel, La Vie devant soi
Jacky Gillott	United Kingdom	24 September 1939	19 September 1980	Novelist
Salvator Gotta	Italy	18 May 1887	7 June 1980	Writer
Traian Herseni	Romania	18 February 1907	17 July 1980	Social scientist, journalist
P. M. Hubbard	United Kingdom	9 November 1910	17 March 1980	Crime writer
Idris Jamma'	Sudan	1 January 1922	27 March 1980	Poet
John Lennon	United Kingdom	9 October 1940	8 December 1980	Musician, songwriter, author	Discography
Olivia Manning	United Kingdom	2 March 1908	23 July 1980	Novelist, poet	Fortunes of War
Marshall McLuhan	Canada	21 July 1911	31 December 1980	Philosopher	Works
Carey McWilliams	United States	13 December 1905	27 June 1980	Author, editor, lawyer
David Mercer	United Kingdom	27 June 1928	8 August 1980	Dramatist
Henry Miller	United States	26 December 1891	7 June 1980	Novelist	Works
Vinicius de Moraes	Brazil	19 October 1913	9 July 1980	Poet, songwriter
Katherine Anne Porter	United States	15 May 1890	18 September 1980	Novelist, essayist
Marin Preda	Romania	5 August 1922	16 May 1980	Novelist	Moromeții, Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni
Caradog Prichard	Wales	1904	25 February 1980	Poet, novelist	Un Nos Ola Leuad
Barbara Pym	United Kingdom	2 June 1913	11 January 1980	Novelist
Irene Rathbone	United Kingdom	11 June 1892	21 January 1980	Novelist
Mart Raud	Estonia	14 September 1903	6 July 1980	Poet, playwright, writer
Nelson Rodrigues	Brazil	12 August 1912	21 December 1980	Playwright, journalist, novelist
Jean-Paul Sartre	France	21 June 1905	15 April 1980	Philosopher, novelist, dramatist
Nichita Smochină	Transnistria	14 March 1894	14 December 1980	Ethnographer, journalist
C. P. Snow	United Kingdom	15 October 1905	1 July 1980	Novelist, scientist	Strangers and Brothers, The Two Cultures
Eugeniu Ștefănescu-Est	Romania	14 March 1881	12 March 1980	Poet, novelist, cartoonist
Ben Travers	United Kingdom	12 November 1886	18 December 1980	Playwright, screenwriter, novelist
Kenneth Tynan	United Kingdom	2 April 1927	26 July 1980	Theater critic
Marie Under	Estonia	27 March 1883	25 September 1980	Poet
James Wright	United States	13 December 1927	25 March 1980	Poet	The Branch Will Not Break

Countries with life + 80 years

Spain has a copyright term of life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988.^[4] In Colombia and Equatorial Guinea, a work enters the public domain 80 years after the creator's death.

Names	Country	Birth	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Octave-Louis Aubert	France	8 January 1870	14 January 1950	Writer, journalist	Le Livre de la Bretagne
Irving Bacheller	United States	26 September 1859	24 February 1950	Writer, journalist	Eben Holden
Sergei Bakhrushin	Russia	8 October 1882	8 March 1950	Historian
Miklós Bánffy	Hungary	30 December 1873	5 June 1950	Nobleman, politician, writer	A Transylvanian Tale
Pavel Bazhov	Russia	27 January 1879	3 December 1950	Writer	The Malachite Box
Max Beckmann	Germany	12 February 1884	27 December 1950	Painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor
William Rose Benét	United States	2 February 1886	4 May 1950	Writer, poet, editor	Saturday Review of Literature, The Reader's Encyclopedia
Lev Berg	Russia	14 March 1876	24 December 1950	Geographer, biologist and ichthyologist
Ben Black	United States	11 December 1889	26 December 1950	Composer, lyricist	"Moonlight and Roses"
Léon Blum	France	9 April 1872	30 March 1950	Politician	Les Problèmes de la Paix
Ambrogio Bollati [it]	Italy	26 November 1871	26 March 1950	General, Historian	Works
D. K. Broster	United Kingdom	2 September 1877	7 February 1950	Novelist	The Flight of the Heron
Herbert Ashwin Budd	United Kingdom	1881	1950	Painter
Joe Burke	United States	18 March 1884	9 June 1950	Songwriter, Composer, pianist	"Dancing With Tears in My Eyes", "Painting the Clouds With Sunshine", "Rambling Rose", "Tip-Toe Through the Tulips"
Edgar Rice Burroughs	United States	1 September 1875	19 March 1950	Author of adventure and science fiction	Tarzan and Barsoom
J. Carlos	Brazil	18 July 1884	2 October 1950	Cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer, sculptor
Basilio Cascella	Italy	2 October 1860	24 July 1950	Artist	Il bagno della pastora [it]
Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao	Spain	29 January 1886	7 January 1950	Painter
Neville William Cayley	Australia	7 January 1886	17 March 1950	Ornithologist & artist	"What Bird is That?", 1931
Francesco Cilea	Italy	26 July 1866	20 November 1950	Composer	L'arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur
Leôncio Correia (pt)	Brazil	1 January 1865	19 June 1950	Lawyer, politician, writer and journalist
Erle Cox	Australia	15 August 1873	20 November 1950	Journalist and science fiction writer	Out of the Silence
Walter Damrosch	United States	30 January 1862	22 December 1950	Composer
Frank Parker Day	Canada	9 May 1881	30 July 1950	Author and academic
Warwick Deeping	United Kingdom	28 May 1877	20 April 1950	Author	Sorrell and Son
Buddy DeSylva	United States	27 January 1895	11 July 1950	Songwriter	Avalon, Look For the Silver Lining, Somebody Loves Me
Edward d'Evry	United Kingdom	6 June 1869	25 December 1950	Composer
Lancelot de Mole	Australia	12 March 1880	6 May 1950	Engineer & inventor	Tracked armoured vehicle, 1911
Clément Doucet	Belgium	9 April 1895	15 October 1950	Composer, pianist
Anatoly Drozdov (ru)	Russia	4 November 1883	10 September 1950	Composer, pianist
Theodor Duesterberg	Germany	19 October 1875	4 November 1950	Politician	The Steel Helmet and Hitler
Walter Eucken	Germany	17 January 1891	20 March 1950	Economist	Works
Percy Keese Fitzhugh	United States	7 September 1876	5 July 1950	Author of children and young adult literature
Yevgeny Gunst	Russia	7 June 1877	30 January 1950	Composer
John Gould Fletcher	United States	3 January 1886	10 May 1950	Poet	Selected Poems
Ernest Haycox	United States	1 October 1899	13 October 1950	Author of Western fiction
John Rippiner Heath	United Kingdom	4 January 1887	23 December 1950	Doctor, musician, composer	Three Macedonian Sketches
William Hovgaard	Denmark United States	28 November 1857	5 January 1950	Professor, Writer	Submarine Boats, The Voyages Of The Norsemen To America
Heydar Huseynov	Azerbaijan	3 April 1908	15 August 1950	Philosopher	Dialectical Materialism
Rex Ingram	United States	15 January 1892	2 July 1950	Film director, producer, writer and actor	The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Prisoner of Zenda
George Cecil Ives	United Kingdom	1 October 1867	4 June 1950	Writer, penal reformer	English Prisons Today
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze	Switzerland	6 July 1865	1 July 1950	Composer, music educator
Johannes V. Jensen	Denmark	20 January 1873	25 November 1950	Author	The Long Journey
Charles L. Johnson	United States	3 December 1876	28 December 1950	Composer
Al Jolson	United States	26 May 1886	23 October 1950	Songwriter
Eddie Kilfeather	United States	5 April 1900	13 January 1950	Composer
Alfred Korzybski	Russian Empire United States	3 July 1879	1 March 1950	Engineer and founder of Institute of General Semantics	Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky	Russia	11 February 1887	28 December 1950	Writer
Harold Laski	United Kingdom	30 June 1893	24 March 1950	Political theorist, economist	A Grammar of Politics
Harry Lauder	United Kingdom	4 August 1870	26 February 1950	Comedian, Singer/songwriter	Roamin' in the Gloamin'
Lilian Sophia Locke	Australia	6 June 1869	1 July 1950	Suffragette & Trade-unionist	Secretary of the United Council for Woman's Suffrage, 1890s
Heinrich Mann	Germany	27 March 1871	11 March 1950	Writer	Professor Unrat
Edgar Lee Masters	United States	23 August 1868	5 March 1950	Writer	Spoon River Anthology
F. O. Matthiessen	United States	19 February 1902	1 April 1950	literary critic	American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
Marcel Mauss	France	10 May 1872	10 February 1950	Sociologist	The Gift
Ernest John Moeran	United Kingdom	31 December 1894	1 December 1950	Composer
Alfred Edward Moffat	United Kingdom	4 December 1863	6 June 1950	Composer, collector of music	Meister-Schule der alten Zeit
Edna St Vincent Millay	United States	22 February 1892	19 October 1950	Poet, playwright	Renascence
Ali Moustafa Mosharafa	Egypt	11 July 1898	16 January 1950	Theoretical physicist
Lewis Muir	United States	1881	19 January 1950	Songwriter	Ragtime Cowboy Joe
Pavel Muratov	Russia	3 March 1881	5 February 1950	Writer, art historian	Images of Italy
Nikolai Myaskovsky	Russia	20 April 1881	8 August 1950	Composer	Symphony No. 6 (Myaskovsky)
Vaslav Nijinsky	Russia	12 March 1889	8 April 1950	Ballet dancer and choreographer	Diary
George Orwell	United Kingdom	25 June 1903	21 January 1950	Journalist and author	Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and other works
Cesare Pavese	Italy	9 September 1908	27 August 1950	Writer, translator	The Moon and the Bonfires
Max Pemberton	United Kingdom	19 June 1863	22 February 1950	Novelist of adventure and mystery literature
Octávio Pinto	Brazil	3 November 1890	31 October 1944	Composer, architect
Ernest Poole	United States	23 January 1880	10 January 1950	Writer	His Family
Gustaf John Ramstedt	Russian Empire Finland	22 October 1873	25 November 1950	Explorer, linguist, diplomat	Seitsemän retkeä itään
R. R. Ryan	United Kingdom	14 December 1882	18 October 1950	Author
Eliel Saarinen	Russian Empire Finland United States	20 August 1873	1 July 1950	Architect	Works
Rafael Sabatini	Italy United Kingdom	29 April 1875	13 February 1950	Writer	The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, The Odissey of Captain Blood, Bellarion the Fortunate
Theophrastos Sakellaridis	Greece	7 September 1883	2 January 1950	Composer, conductor	Ο Βαφτιστικός
Guðjón Samúelsson	Iceland	16 April 1887	25 April 1950	Architect	Hallgrímskirkja, National Theatre of Iceland, Akureyrarkirkja
Joseph Schumpeter	Austria	8 February 1883	8 January 1950	Economist	Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Milton Schwarzwald	United States	16 September 1891	2 March 1950	Director, composer
George Bernard Shaw	United Kingdom Ireland	26 July 1856	2 November 1950	Writer	Man and Superman, Pygmalion, Saint Joan
Adaline Shepherd	United States	19 August 1883	12 March 1950	Composer
Forrest Shreve	United States	8 July 1878	19 July 1950	Botanist	Works
Martinus Sieveking	Netherlands	24 March 1867	26 November 1950	Composer, music teacher
Jan Smuts	South Africa	24 May 1870	11 September 1950	Statesman, military leader, and philosopher	Holism and Evolution
John M. Stahl	United States	21 January 1886	12 January 1950	Film Director and Producer	Father Was a Fullback
Olaf Stapledon	United Kingdom	10 May 1886	6 September 1950	Philosopher and science fiction author	Star Maker, Last and First Men and Odd John
Henry L. Stimson	United States	21 September 1867	20 October 1950	Politician	Democracy And Nationalism In Europe
Tatiana Sukhotina-Tolstaya	Russia	4 October 1864	21 September 1950	Painter and memoirist
Attilio Teruzzi	Italy	5 May 1882	26 April 1950	Politician	Cirenaica Verde
Trilussa	Italy	26 October 1871	21 December 1950	Poet	Works
Orhan Veli Kanık	Turkey	14 April 1914	14 November 1950	Poet	Garip, Collected Poems
Xavier Villaurrutia	Mexico	27 March 1903	25 December 1950	Poet, Playwright	Works
Archibald P. Wavell	United Kingdom	5 May 1883	24 May 1950	General	Generals And Generalship
Kurt Weill	Germany	2 March 1900	3 April 1950	Composer	The Threepenny Opera
Yi Gwangsu	South Korea	1 February 1892	25 October 1950	Writer, independence activist	Heartless

United States

Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1935, films released in 1935, and other works published in 1935 will enter the public domain in 2031.^[5] Sound recordings published in 1930 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1960 will also enter the public domain.

Notable films that will enter the public domain in 2031 include Best Picture Academy Award winner Mutiny on the Bounty starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton, Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, John Ford's The Informer with Victor McLaglen, Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1935, Max Reinhardt's adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream with Olivia de Havilland and James Cagney, Captain Blood with Errol Flynn, George Cukor's adaptation of David Copperfield with Frank Lawton, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer with Gary Cooper, Top Hat starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the Marx Brothers comedy A Night at the Opera, Naughty Marietta with the first teaming of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, The Little Colonel with Shirley Temple and Lionel Barrymore, Will Rogers' final films Steamboat Round the Bend and In Old Kentucky, Tumbling Tumbleweeds with Gene Autry in one of his first starring roles, Henry Fonda's film debut The Farmer Takes a Wife, Hop-Along Cassidy with William Boyd (the first film to star the title character), the musical film Metropolitan (20th Century Fox's first film under that name), the British film Scrooge (the first sound film adaptation of A Christmas Carol), the first color Mickey Mouse cartoon The Band Concert as well as the first teamings of Mickey with Donald Duck and Goofy, the Silly Symphony cartoons The Tortoise and the Hare and Three Orphan Kittens, and I Haven't Got a Hat with the debut of the first major recurring Looney Tunes character, Porky Pig.