When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of works that enter the public domain in 2016. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.
Authors entering the public domain in Europe
With the exception of Belarus, a work enters the public domain in Europe 70 years after the creator's death, if it was published during the creator's lifetime. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator that entered the public domain on January 1, 2016.
Entering the public domain in the United States
The Copyright Term Extension Act means no published works will enter the public domain in this jurisdiction until 2019. Only unpublished works whose authors died in 1945 enter the public domain.
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
Sidney, Philip and His Wife, The Awakening of Helena Richie, The Iron Woman, The Rising Tide by Margaret Deland.
Paulicéia Desvairada, Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade
Aşk-ı Memnu, Kırık Hayatlar by Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil
Bambi, a Life in the Woods, Bambi's Children, Josephine Mutzenbacher, The Hound of Florence, Fünf Minuten Amerika, Perri by Felix Salten.
Red Plague Poem by Józef Szczepański
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison
Collection of Poems. 1889–1903 and Collection of Poems. Book 2. 1903-1909 by Zinaida Gippius
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, The Financier, The Titan, The "Genius", An American Tragedy, Chains: Lesser Novels and Stories, The Bulwark, The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser.
The Worm Ouroboros, the Zimiamvian Trilogy; Mistress of Mistresses, A Fish Dinner in Memison, and The Mezentian Gate by Eric Rücker Eddison
Winter by Vilhelms Purvītis
Six string quartets and Cantata Profana by Béla Bartók.
Variations for piano, op. 27, String Quartet, Op. 28, Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24 by Anton Webern.
Prelude in E minor, BWV 855a by Alexander Siloti
Music of Le Pavillon d'Armide Ballet by Nikolai Tcherepnin
You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It) by James V. Monaco and Joseph McCarthy.
