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Also, a work's PD status will vary between countries due to differences in copyright laws. For an example, the status of the ''Literature/FuManchu'' series differs radically between several significant markets:

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* Myth/ArthurianLegend

* Literature/TheBible: While the actual text is in the public domain and many versions of the Bible are free of copyright, certain versions of it are copyrighted in some jurisdictions (e.g., the King James Bible is under perpetual copyright in the United Kingdom).
* ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}''

* Myth/BrazilianFolklore

* ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'': One of the earliest surviving works of great literature.

* ''Literature/TheIliad''

* ''Myth/JuanBobo''

* Myth/MountainFolklore

* Myth/NauticalFolklore

* ''Myth/PaulBunyan''

* Myth/RobinHood

* All the works of Creator/WilliamShakespeare

* Myth/WilliamTell

* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' - all of the original Creator/ArthurConanDoyle canon, save for ''The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes'' (collecting his last twelve stories).

* In the EU, UK, Australia, and Mexico, ''none'' of the series is PD.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Under EU, UK, and Australian law, works by an individual creator are under copyright for 70 years after the creator's death. Spain had a "life plus 80" term until it harmonized its copyright laws with the rest of the EU in 1987, and the "life plus 80" term still applies for works of creators who died before 1987. The term under Mexican law is ''100 years after death''. Fu Manchu's creator Sax Rohmer didn't die until 1959.[[/labelnote]]

A list of literature (stories, poems, novels, etc.) that are in the PublicDomain. In the USA, this includes any story first published before 1927. A comprehensive list is impossible to make; [[http://www.gutenberg.org Project Gutenberg]] has over forty thousand in English alone.

* "Literature/ToBuildAFire"

* Literature/DomCasmurro

* ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' – the first five books in the US; the entire series in the EU, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Mexico.[[note]]before 1982, Mexico's term was life plus ''30'', and none of that country's three later term extensions (to life plus 50, 75, and 100) were retroactive.[[/note]]

* ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'' - the first book is public domain in the U.S. as of 2022, with the second book set to follow in 2024; the British copyright on the text will expire in 2027, at which point all Creator/AAMilne works will be public domain in the U.K. However, the illustrations will not become PD in the UK until 2047; illustrator E.H. Shepard lived until 1976.

* In the EU, UK, Australia, and Mexico, ''none'' of the series is PD.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Under EU, UK, and Australian law, works by an individual creator are under copyright for 70 years after the creator's death. The term under Mexican law is ''100 years after death''. Fu Manchu's creator Sax Rohmer didn't die until 1959.[[/labelnote]]

* "Literature/EnochArden"

* ''[[Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter]]''

* The first 19 books in the Literature/LandOfOz series, and additional 7 that failed to have their copyright renewed, including

* ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'' - the first book is public domain in the U.S. as of 2022, with the second book set to follow in 2024; the British copyright will expire in 2027, at which point all Creator/AAMilne works will be public domain in the U.K.

* ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'' - the first book is public domain in the U.S. as of 2022; the British copyright will not expire until 2027

* ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'' - the first book is public domain in the U.S. as of 2022; the British copyright on the first book will not expire until 2027

A list of literature (stories, poems, novels, etc.) that are in the PublicDomain. In the USA, this includes any story first published before 1926. A comprehensive list is impossible to make; [[http://www.gutenberg.org Project Gutenberg]] has over forty thousand in English alone.

* ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' – the first five books in the US; the entire series in the EU, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

* ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' – the first five books in the US; the entire series in the EU, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand; but will remain under copyright in Mexico until ''2051''.