The project uses Wikidata to track lists of creators whose work will fall in the public domain (given a death+70 years term of protection).

for Wikipedia we are looking at creators whose work will fall into the public domain next year, we are aiming to create biographical articles to prepare for future public domain works. We use the the Wiki Loves Public Domain 2026 (Q134895452) project code on Wikidata. We use the maintained by WikiProject (P6104) property to link new persons to this set.
for Wikimedia Commons we are looking at creators whose work has fallen into the public domain this year, we are aiming to add their relevant public domain work on Wikimedia commons and add these to the Wikipedia articles on these creators. We use the the Wiki Loves Public Domain 2025 (Q134895450) project code on Wikidata. We use the maintained by WikiProject (P6104) property to link new persons to this set.

Wikimedia Commons on the Public Domain
Public domain calculators (EU)
- Public domain calculator (BE/Meemoo): use your own collection data export in combination with Wikidata to determine which creators' work is in the public domain.
Public Domain calculator (US)
Paulina: a tool to search for creators and cultural works, and identify works in the public domain in different jurisdictions.
Public Domain calculator (Colombia)

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