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Dec. 27th, 2013 01:37 pmSherlock Holmes now in the US public domain
But of course...
"And don't start working on getting your Cumberbatch as Sherlock fan fiction ready to be published. When CBS was readying their version of an updated Sherlock, a producer of the BBC show vowed to 'protect the interest and wellbeing of our offspring.'"
"Americans can continue revising Sherlock as they wish: a judge ruled that Holmes, Watson, Moriarty, and other elements of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories are in the United States public domain.
Jennifer Schuessler of the New York Times reported that a federal judge ruled that elements in the 50 Conan Doyle works published before the the start of 1923 are not covered by copyright, therefore anyone who divines any new Holmes-related material will not have to pay a licensing fee. (Information in Conan Doyle's 10 stories published after that date remain under copyright.)"But of course...
"And don't start working on getting your Cumberbatch as Sherlock fan fiction ready to be published. When CBS was readying their version of an updated Sherlock, a producer of the BBC show vowed to 'protect the interest and wellbeing of our offspring.'"
