As of today, the works of artists and writers who died in 1955 are in the public domain, that is, they remain free of rights, which in Argentina is called “public domain”. “Pay for public domain” for the fee that commercial users of the works must pay to the National Arts Fund. According to Law 11.273, in our country the exclusive rights of exploitation, reproduction and translation last for the entire life of the author plus seventy years. postmortem for their beneficiaries.
Since the beginning of the 21st century, it has taken place on January 1st every year Public domain tag (Some celebrate by uploading the “published works” to the Internet). Although the deadlines are not the same in all countries, the same regulation applies to foreign creations. Just because a work is in the public domain in one location does not mean that it can be used for free in other countries (and vice versa).
In 2026 titles from renowned authors such as German Thomas Mannthe American poet Wallace Stevens and the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega and Gasset Enter the public area. So much The magic mountain as The uprising of the masses They, like Stevens’s intellectual poetry, can be republished, adapted or reverted by local publishers at lower cost.
US titles will also be rights-free James Agee (his posthumous novel A death in the familyabout the death of his father, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958), Horace McCoy (Author of the brilliant crime novel Don’t they kill horses?), Elisabeth Sanxay Holding and Dale Carnegie (former bestseller of books on leadership and personal improvement) of Uruguayan poets Liber Falco (her poems were set to music by her compatriots Daniel Viglietti and José Luis Guerra) and Raquel Sáenz (who adopted the pseudonym). Aspasia), by the Scottish mythologist and occultist Lewis Spence, by the French poet and bookseller Adrienne Monnier (who was a partner of the American Sylvia Beach), the French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the Irishman Stanislaus Joyce (younger brother of the author of Ulysses), by the Spanish poets Carles Salvador and José Moreno Villa, by the Japanese storyteller and essayist Ango Sakaguchi (Evaristo Verlag published by this recommended author Farces and essays) and the Romanian writer Hydrangea Papadat-Bengescu.
The Argentine poet and theater, film and music critic Evar Mendez (born in Mendoza), who ran the newspaper Martin FierroHe also died in 1995. His name became popular because he was the recipient of the letter Oliverio Girondo which has accompanied the editions of since 1925 Twenty poems to read on the tram. He was a friend and student of Ricardo Rojas and Leopoldo Lugones and the Martinfierristas.
In the United States, works published in 1930 enter the public domain starting in 2026, e.g While I’m dyingWilliam Faulkner’s fifth novel; The Maltese Falconby Dashiell Hammett, and The one who whispers in the darkHorrifying short novel by HP Lovecraft.
In Spain, rights are protected throughout the author’s life and seventy years after his death. However, the old Spanish intellectual property law stipulated a term of eighty years postmortemi.e. works whose authors died before December 7, 1987 continue to have this duration.
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