Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge Rules

Re:Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge R... by rwbt on Friday December 27, 2013 @05:56PM (#6972996)

I'm assuming one can now make movies/television/video games with those characters without paying any sort of royalty.

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Re:Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge R... by ZeroMinx on Friday December 27, 2013 @06:50PM (#6973188)

[serious] Has the BBC had to pay royalties for making/showing their Sherlock series? In that case, to whom? The person who created these fictional characters died over 70 years ago.

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Re:Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge R... by colkassad on Friday December 27, 2013 @07:06PM (#6973236)

Both TV shows and the movie studio entered into a licensing agreement with the Conan Doyle estate, it's all in the article.

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Re:Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge R... by rwbt on Friday December 27, 2013 @07:00PM (#6973215)

I believe the Copyrights for Sherlock Holmes expired in year 2000 and in public domain since then. So I don't think BBC needed to license it from the estate, at least in the UK.

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