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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: John C on February 19, 2013, 03:52:31 PM

Title: Free Sherlock!
Post by: John C on February 19, 2013, 03:52:31 PM

This is--by far--the best thing I've read all day:

http://free-sherlock.com/

Short version:  The Doyle estate bullied a publisher into ditching a book borrowing from the public domain features of the Holmes books.  The flaw in their reasoning?  Leslie S. Klinger happens to know her stuff and also happens to be a lawyer.

He's suing the Doyle estate, demanding that they release claims of copyright on the "characters," since the overwhelming majority of the works in which they appear are, in fact, public domain in the United States.

He'll probably fail, but as I said, best thing I've seen today.  Couldn't not share.

Title: Re: Free Sherlock!
Post by: Yoc on February 19, 2013, 10:06:44 PM

Interesting as always John.
Thanks for passing that along.

Title: Re: Free Sherlock!
Post by: Aratak on February 23, 2013, 05:38:19 AM

Awesome. I've often wondered what the hold-up on the Public Domain and Sherlock Holmes was. "Bullying" would probably be the correct term.