https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2025/ * Home * Essays * Collections * Explore * Shop * Support PDR * About * Blog Search Search The Public Domain Review [ ][View All Results] The Public Domain Review The Public Domain Review PDRSupport PDR * Essays * Collections * Explore * Shop * About * Blog * * * * * * Visit Our Prints ShopAll profits back into the project Blue Root print Visit Our Prints Shop Ancient Courses print Eight Shadow Figures print Explore Our Prints StoreArchival inks on premium art paper. Unframed or framed ready to hang. All profits back into the project.Shop NowFREE SHIPPINGTo US, UK, EU, Canada, and Australia. Blue Root print Meteor Shower print What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2025?A Festive Countdown At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose. Due to differing copyright laws around the world, there is no one single public domain -- and here we focus on three of the most prominent. Newly entering the public domain in 2025 will be: * works by people who died in 1954, for countries with a copyright term of "life plus 70 years" (e.g. UK, Russia, most of EU and South America); * works by people who died in 1974, for countries with a term of "life plus 50 years" (e.g. New Zealand, and most of Africa and Asia); * films and books (incl. artworks featured) published in 1929 for the United States. In our advent-style calendar below, find our top pick of what lies in store for 2025. Each day, as we move through December, we'll open a new window to reveal our highlights! By public domain day on January 1st they will all be unveiled -- look out for a special blogpost from us on that day. (And, of course, if you want to dive straight in and explore the vast swathe of new entrants for yourself, just visit the links above). Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content3 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Henri Matisse Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content22 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Mahatma Gandhi's The Story of My Experiments with Truth Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content10 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content6 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Aleister Crowley's Magick in Theory and Practice Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content17 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Auguste Lumiere Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content29 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's contentJean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content23 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's contentLil Green Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content27 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Arthur Conan Doyle's The Maracot Deep Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content28 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's contentAnne Sexton Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content31 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Donald Goines Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content12 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Alfred Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content2 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Graham Greene's The Man Within Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content4 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content1 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content8 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Lloyd C. Douglas's Magnificent Obsession Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content11 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's contentThea von Harbou Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content14 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Oliver La Farge's Laughing Boy Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content18 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content26 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Edith Wharton's Hudson River Bracketed Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content16 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content21 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Robert Graves' Good-Bye to All That Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content5 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Frida Kahlo Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content13 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Robert Capa Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content24 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (translation) Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content30 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Sinclair Lewis' Dodsworth Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content25 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's contentJ. 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Priestley's The Good Companions Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content9 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Charles Ives Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content7 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's contentDuke Ellington Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content20 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Adolph Gottlieb Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content15 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Colette Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content19 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth * Check out John Mark Ockerbloom's own "Public Domain Day Countdown" on Mastodon, and summarised in his blogpost. * Read more about what makes the public domain so important in Communia's Public Domain Manifesto. * Wondering if "bad things happen to works when they enter the public domain"? 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