Sherlock lives in public domain, US court rules

Re:Sherlock lives in public domain, US court rules by danesparza on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @09:20AM (#7904218)

I'm curious... (and I'm only being a little flippant, I promise) Does this also mean that the new BBC series can be freely distributed on Bit torrent without fear of copyright infringement?

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Re:Sherlock lives in public domain, US court rules by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @09:46AM (#7904353)

No, each new work gets its own separate copyright period. Many individual elements of the BBC series are public domain, and as such could be used in other works, but the work as a whole is covered by copyright.

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Re:Sherlock lives in public domain, US court rules by tim333 on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @09:25AM (#7904245)

Sadly not. The BBC has copyright on the things they produce themselves if not on the Sherlock character.

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