A US court has ruled that Sherlock Holmes –
along with 46 stories and four novels he’s appeared in – is in the public domain, reaffirming the
expiration of the copyright once owned by the estate of Scottish writer Arthur
Conan Doyle.
Only Canon’s last 10 works are now copyright protected.
Judge Posner, writing for the Seventh Circuit, did not buy this lit-crit approach to copyright, which he noted was basically just a veil for the Conan Doyle estate's hope of achieving almost 135 years of full copyright protection, far beyond the (already insanely long) term protected in the Copyright Act.
You should mark this down as possibly the first time in the history of U.S.A that the specter of Jar-Jar Binks was invoked in the name of all that is good, holy, and in favor of limited terms for copyright.
Only Canon’s last 10 works are now copyright protected.
Judge Posner, writing for the Seventh Circuit, did not buy this lit-crit approach to copyright, which he noted was basically just a veil for the Conan Doyle estate's hope of achieving almost 135 years of full copyright protection, far beyond the (already insanely long) term protected in the Copyright Act.
You should mark this down as possibly the first time in the history of U.S.A that the specter of Jar-Jar Binks was invoked in the name of all that is good, holy, and in favor of limited terms for copyright.
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