2027 in public domain

Entering the public domain in countries with life + 70 years

Names	Country	Death	Occupation	Notable work
Pietro Badoglio	Italy 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 Death Occupation Notable work Ralph Allen Canada 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 Death Occupation Notable work Zainul Abedin Bangladesh Countries with life + 80 years Spain has a copyright term of life + 80 years for creators that died before 1987. In Colombia and Equatorial Guinea, a work enters the public domain 80 years after the creator's death. Names Country Death Occupation Notable work Giuseppe Adami Italy United States Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1931, films released in 1931, and other works published in 1931, will enter the public domain in 2027 if they were made for hire as defined in American copyright law. Sound recordings that were published in 1926 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1956 will also enter the public domain. The Disney animated short The Moose Hunt, featuring Pluto in his first appearance under his familiar name and as Mickey Mouse's dog; as well as Universal Pictures' Frankenstein and Dracula, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in their respective title roles; will be among the works to enter the public domain. On the other hand, the character Dick Tracy was already in the public domain due to lack of proper copyright renewal, as were the strips of E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre that introduced both J. Wellington Wimpy and Popeye's use of spinach to gain his superpowers. Other significant films entering the public domain include Charlie Chaplin's City Lights, the gangster film The Public Enemy starring James Cagney and Jean Harlow, the Marx Brothers film Monkey Business, Laurel and Hardy's first feature film Pardon Us, Fritz Lang's serial killer drama M starring Peter Lorre, Rouben Mamoulian's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Josef von Sternberg's Dishonored starring Marlene Dietrich, Michael Powell's directorial debut Two Crowded Hours, Otto Preminger's directorial debut The Great Love, F. W. Murnau's final film Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, the John Ford films Arrowsmith and The Brat, the Alfred Hitchcock films The Skin Game, Mary and Rich and Strange, Frank Capra films Dirigible, The Miracle Woman and Platinum Blonde, Mädchen in Uniform, G. W. Pabst's The Threepenny Opera, Mário Peixoto's Limite, Dave Fleischer's Bimbo's Initiation, the first Canadian sound film The Viking, the first Soviet sound film Road to Life and the first Bollywood-musical Alam Ara. Important literary works entering the public domain include Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth, William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, Lynn Riggs' play Green Grows the Lilacs, Dr. Seuss's debut book The Pocket Book of Boners, Erich Maria Remarque's novel The Road Back, James Hanley's novel Boy, J. Slauerhoff's novel The Forbidden Kingdom, the final volume of Winston Churchill's The World Crisis, the detective stories The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie and The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett, Walter B. Gibson's pulp novel The Living Shadow introducing The Shadow, The Hardy Boys' tenth novel What Happened at Midnight, Georges Simenon's novel The Strange Case of Peter the Lett in its original French, the full album version of Hergé's Tintin in the Congo and first serialized pages of Tintin in America in their original French black-and-white versions, and Jean de Brunhoff's The Story of Babar in its original French. Disney's first hardcover book The Adventures of Mickey Mouse, which included a prototypical character who three years later became Donald Duck, will also become public domain in 2027. The first appearances of Suihō Tagawa's Norakuro, one of the earliest Shōnen manga series, will also become public domain in the United States in 2027 in its original Japanese. Among the better-known songs entering the public domain are "As Time Goes By", "Minnie the Moocher", "Which Side Are You On?", "All of Me", and "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?". A march entering the public domain is John Philip Sousa's Kansas Wildcats. Artworks entering the public domain include Salvador Dalí's painting The Persistence of Memory, Georgia O'Keeffe's painting Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue, Grant Wood's painting The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, Thomas Hart Benton's painting America Today, Paul Landowski's sculpture Christ the Redeemer, Pablo Picasso's sculpture Bust of a Woman (Marie-Thérèse), Man Ray's photo series Électricité, August Sander's photograph Secretary at West German Radio, Cologne and M. C. Escher's early print Atrani, Coast of Amalfi.