Talk:2018 in public domain

Big names?

Hi, thank you for creating this list. The "class of 2018" seems to be rather void of "big names", I can only recognize Wolfgang Borchert here. Any other pointers? Thanks, --Gnom (talk) 16:21, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Any one can add other notable people. They are all Europeans because I'm not sure about the legal status of others, especially the Americans. Thanks.--Maher27777 (talk) 21:01, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi, copyright does not depend on the nationality of the author, so we should include U.S. creators as well, even though their works will not expire in the U.S. themselves. --Gnom (talk) 09:26, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

I just included Willa Cather since I didn't want to wait for someone to add her name. Surprised that omission went on for so long. --Abzeronow (talk) 17:45, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Are you only considering fiction authors whose popularity survived the century? I'd say Henry Ford, Max Planck and Irving Fisher are quite big names! Then there's also some people involved in the war, such as Vittorio Emanuele III, Anton Ivanovič Denikin, John Henry Patterson and Ian Hamilton (all of which have author pages in Wikisource). Plus a number of scholars relevant in their own field. Nemo 13:40, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

What does "Country" mean?

"Country" could refer to either country of birth or nationality. But as far as I can see, that is not specified.84.210.7.162 (talk) 18:15, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Seems to be nationality.--Maher27777 (talk) 20:10, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

In that case I assume some names are wrong, for instance M. P. Shiel. He was born in the West Indies, but his nationality was British.84.210.7.162 (talk) 02:28, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Borys Romanowski

Some Russian language sites say that he died in 1948 not 1947: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. --Juggler2005 (talk) 21:36, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Life + 60 & Life + 80...

There are the same amount of Life + 60 and Life + 80 countries: 2. The Life + 60 countries are India & Venezuela (admittedly India is an important country in terms of size and population). Life + 80 countries are Colombia & Spain for authors who died before 1987 (We have quite a while before the brief period in which Spain would be Life + 60). There are also sole examples of Life + 74 (Russia); Life + 95(Jamaica); Life + 99 (Cote d'Ivoire); and Life + 100 (Mexico). Not really sure it would be worth it to devote an entire list to things that fell out of copyright in India and Venezuela. Abzeronow (talk) 04:46, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

About the countries that the copyright extent is Life + 60 years after the death of the author.

There were 2 countries that the copyright length is life + 60 years after the death of the author and it’s is important to be present in the page 2018 in public domain because authors that died in 1957 entered in public domain in January 1, 2018 in that countries. - 201.52.229.251 (talk) 07:45, 19 November 2018 (UTC).

It's quite a bit of work to create a comprehensive list of authors who died in 1957. Sure, it would be nice to have India see what entered public domain in their country (writings of Aga Khan III, also works of Devdas Gandhi), but since Life + 70 & Life + 50 cover much of the world, creating and organizing those lists is evidently worthwhile. Can you make a reasoned argument why Life + 60 merits inclusion and why Life + 80 wouldn't? Abzeronow (talk) 12:08, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Some of the previous versions of this page had a separate able for each occupation. I thought that was silly and combined them into a single table. Similarly, maybe we should eliminate the header "Entering the public domain in countries with life + 70 years," combine all these different sections and have a column indicating the creator's country of origin indicating after how many years that country allows the creator's works to go PD. - kosboot (talk) 18:20, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

For pre-1978 works, the United States uses a publication based copyright term so that would be a problem so keeping the Life + 70 & Life + 50 sections seems prudent. Am open to additional column that would add info on creator's country of origin copyright if term doesn't match section though (i.e. column noting Spanish creators would be PD after 10 more years in the Life + 70 section). Abzeronow (talk) 22:51, 21 November 2018 (UTC)