Re:Enola Holmes sued due to giving Sherlock “copyrighted” em...
by eqvinox on Thursday August 27, 2020 @09:17AM
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That headline and article view is really not quite getting the point.
The estate's argument is that the Sherlock character from the later stories is significantly different from the earlier one by the change in emotions. Which sounds kinda-sorta reasonable, though I'm not a legal expert and it doesn't seem clear-cut. Characters are, however, copyrightable.
The estate's argument is that the Sherlock character from the later stories is significantly different from the earlier one by the change in emotions. Which sounds kinda-sorta reasonable, though I'm not a legal expert and it doesn't seem clear-cut. Characters are, however, copyrightable.