The authors whose works will be free January 1, 2015

Almost every year on 1 January, activists for freedom of information and Wikipedia editors holiday. They advance up the list of authors, writers and artists whose works from this day pass into the public domain, in accordance with the expiration of the term of protection of related rights 70 (50) years after the author's death.

Meet «graduates» 2015 .





The top row (left to right): Felix Nussbaum, Edith Sitwell, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
The average number (left to right): Rachel Carson, Edvard Munch, Flannery O'Connor, Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
The bottom row (left to right) Glenn Miller, Wassily Kandinsky, Ian Fleming, Piet Mondrian.

The work of eight artists from the list in the public domain in countries with a term of protection of 70 years (most of Europe, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, etc.), that is, these authors had died in 1944. More work three authors, who died in 1964, in the public domain in countries with a term of protection of 50 years (Canada, New Zealand and many countries in Asia and Africa).

Wassily Kandinsky
Outstanding painter, graphic artist and theorist of fine arts, one of the founders of abstract art.

Edvard Munch
Norwegian painter and graphic artist, theater artist, art theorist. One of the first representatives of expressionism.

Edith Sitwell
English poet, novelist, literary critic.

Piet Mondrian
Dutch artist who simultaneously with Kandinsky and Malevich marked the beginning of abstract painting.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French writer and poet.

Rachel Carson
American biologist and activist in the field of environmental protection, the writer.

Felix Nussbaum
German painter, representative of the artistic style of New objectivity.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Italian writer, poet, founder of Futurism. One of the founders of Italian fascism, worked closely with Mussolini wounded at Stalingrad.

Glenn Miller
American trombonist, arranger, leader of one of the best swing bands (late 1930s - early 1940s) - Glenn Miller Orchestra.

Flannery O'Connor
Writer South US Southern Gothic master.

Ian Fleming
English writer, journalist and officer Office of Naval Intelligence, author of a series of novels about James Bond, which are sold worldwide with a total circulation of more than 100 million copies.


As you can see, in 2015 significantly enlarged the world of free art fund. Why are only the James Bond with the Little Prince!

In addition to these authors, after 6 days in the public domain move operation Max Jacob, Marc Bloch, Ida Tarbell, Romain Rolland, Arthur Qwilleran-Pile, George Eid and others.

P.S. In the United States will not leave any work in the public domain prior to January 1, 2019 due to the recent extension of copyright to 95 years a >.

Source:
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