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Sherlock Holmes and the Copyright Tangle

Posted by kdawson on from the making-lawyers'-eyes-roll dept.

spagiola passes along a New York Times piece on the copyright travails of Sherlock Holmes. "At his age [123 years], Holmes would logically seem to have entered the public domain. But not only is the character still under copyright in the United States, for nearly 80 years he has also been caught in a web of ownership issues so tangled that Professor Moriarty wouldn't have wished them upon him."

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  1. Re:Well well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am not playing.

    heh.. captcha = supreme

  2. Re:Quote from article by gd2shoe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The part where you weren't speaking in complete sentences*. You don't always have to speak in complete sentences to be understood, but sometimes people will misunderstand you. It's a simple fact.

    (*Technically, neither of your statements was a complete sentence. It was the second that I misinterpreted, though, and not the first.)

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