2016 in public domain

When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of works that entered the public domain in 2016. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.

With the exception of Belarus and Spain, a work enters the public domain in Europe and Brazil 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.

The Copyright Term Extension Act means no published works would 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 Only unpublished works whose authors died in 1945 enter the public domain.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 by E. R. 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.

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