Public Domain Day 2013

Copyrights expire on 1 January each year. The day is celebrated as Public Domain Day.

Authors whose works enter the Public Domain on 1 January 2013 include:

  • Alexander Beliaev[1]
Russian science fiction author. Famous for the Amphibian Man and Professor Dowel's Head, both made into Soviet films.
Amphibian Man: the film version was in part shot in Baku and the Caspian, released in 1962 and seen by 65 million cinema goers.[2]
Professor Dowel's Head:[3]
  • Ernest Bramah[4]
British author, mostly popular fiction and science fiction. Famous works include What Might Have Been, an anti-socialist science fiction book that influenced Orwell's1984
  • Ralph Adams Cram[5]
American Gothic architect and author of texts relating to this
  • Nictzin Dyalhis[6]
American fantasy and sci-fi author, famous for short stories in Weird Tales
British feminist author, connected with literary scene. Works include:
The Maiden's Progress, The Human Interest, White Rose of Weary Leaf and Tales of the Uneasy
  • Daniil Kharms[8]
Russian Futurist, children's author latterly anti soviet
  • Janusz Korczak[9]
Polish author of Kaytek the Wizard soon to be a film[10]
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery [11]
Canadian author of Anne of Green Gables
Austrian author of The Man Without Qualities
  • Irène Némirovsky[13]
French Jewish author
Canadian writer of popular adventure stories, including Coogan's Last Run and the Jimmie Dale series
Polish author, born to Jewish parents, regarded as a great prose stylist
  • Annemarie Schwarzenbach[16]
Swiss author famous for travel writing and photography
  • Albert Payson Terhune[17]
American dog breeder and author, mostly of novels about dogs
American author and poet
Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. Left Austria in 1934 and died in Brazil.

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