2025 in public domain
In most countries of Africa and Asia, as well as Belarus, Bolivia and New Zealand, a work enters the public domain 50 years after the creator's death.
Russia has a copyright term of life + 70 years in general, with two special provisions: 1954 marks the first large wave of posthumous rehabilitations.
[4] Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books and other works published in 1929 and films released in 1929 entered the public domain in 2025.
[6] The characters Captain Easy,[7] Horace Horsecollar, Tintin, and Popeye the Sailor Man entered the public domain in 2025.
Ellery Queen's detective novel The Roman Hat Mystery, Margery Allingham's detective novel The Crime at Black Dudley, the first English translation of Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front, Alfred Döblin's novel Berlin Alexanderplatz in its original German, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's novel Pather Panchali in its original Bengali, Lynd Ward's wordless novel Gods' Man, William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury, Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest, Edgar Rice Burroughs's novel Tarzan and the Lost Empire, Ruth Plumly Thompson's novel Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, Bertrand Russell's book Marriage and Morals, Patrick Hamilton's play Rope, A.
