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- Public Domain Day celebrates works entering the public domain on January 1st each year.
- Works by authors who died in 1955 enter the public domain in countries with 'life plus 70 years' copyright terms.
- Works by authors who died in 1975 enter the public domain in countries with 'life plus 50 years' copyright terms.
- In the US, films and books published in 1929 enter the public domain.
- Notable works entering the public domain include William Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' and Langston Hughes' 'Not Without Laughter'.
- Other significant works include Agatha Christie's 'The Murder at the Vicarage' and Hermann Hesse's 'Narcissus and Goldmund'.
- The public domain also welcomes works by Albert Einstein, Wallace Stevens, and Thomas Mann.
- The article highlights the cultural and historical significance of these works and their authors.