2028 in public domain

Entering the public domain in countries with life + 70 years

Names	Country	Death	Occupation	Notable work
René Auberjonois	Switzerland 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 J. R. Ackerley United Kingdom 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 María Esther Ballivián Bolivia Countries with life + 80 years Spain has a copyright term of life + 80 years for creators that died before 1988. In Colombia and Equatorial Guinea, a work enters the public domain 80 years after the creator's death. Names Country Death Occupation Notable work James Agate United Kingdom United States Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1932, films released in 1932, and other works published in 1932, will enter the public domain in 2028. Sound recordings that were published in 1927 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1957 will also enter the public domain. Among the films that will enter the public domain in 2028 are the original Scarface, Universal Monsters film The Mummy with Boris Karloff, Tarzan the Ape Man with Johnny Weissmuller, Best Picture Academy Award-winner Grand Hotel, Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express with Marlene Dietrich, Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise, The Music Box starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Katharine Hepburn's film debut A Bill of Divorcement, Shirley Temple's film debut The Red-Haired Alibi, the earliest Looney Tunes short films that were still under copyright when the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992 was implemented such as Ride Him, Bosko!, Horse Feathers with the Marx Brothers, Tod Browning's Freaks, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr, Alfred Hitchcock's Number Seventeen, the John Ford films Air Mail and Flesh, Frank Capra films Forbidden and American Madness, Jean Renoir's Boudu Saved from Drowning, Yasujirō Ozu's I Was Born, But..., the first Mexican sound film Santa, the first Egyptian sound film Sons of Aristocrats, the first Marathi language sound film and oldest surviving Indian film Ayodhyecha Raja, and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony cartoons released in 1932, including Flowers and Trees and Mickey's Revue with the first appearance of Dippy Dawg, the character who would later become Goofy. Examples of important literary works entering the public domain include Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, William Faulkner's Light in August, Samuel Becket's Dream of Fair to Middling Women, Graham Greene's Stamboul Train, Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, Zelda Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz, John Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot detective novel Peril at End House, T. S. Eliot's unfinished work Sweeney Agonistes, John Dos Passos's Nineteen Nineteen, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods, Hardy Boys novel While the Clock Ticked, the first three volumes of Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don in its original Russian, the full album version of Herge's Tintin in America and the first serialized pages of Cigars of the Pharaoh in their original French unedited black-and-white versions, W. E. Johns’ first Biggles-collection The Camels Are Coming, and the first editions of literary magazine Scrutiny. Also, the Thimble Theatre villain Bluto and Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian are already in the public domain as their first appearances didn't have their copyrights properly renewed in 1961. Important artworks entering the public domain include Pablo Picasso's Nude in a Black Armchair and Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, Oskar Schlemmer's painting Bauhaus Stairway, Otto Dix's triptych The War, Henri Matisse's mural The Dance II, David Alfaro Siqueiros' fresco América Tropical, Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals, Alberto Giacometti's sculpture The Palace at 4 a.m., Man Ray's photograph Larmes and some of the earliest professional photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson including Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare and Hyères, France and the first version of the font Times New Roman. Among the better-known songs entering the public domain are "Try a Little Tenderness", "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" and "Love Is the Sweetest Thing".