Saturday, December 28, 2013

sherlock holmes & copyright

Long-time readers of this blog know that I've had some words about copyright. Our system is broken.

Here's another example. A judge in Illinois had to rule that Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain. But only those stories published prior to 1923; there are ten after that that are still under copyright.

Sheesh. Sherlock Holmes? How is that anything OTHER than public domain?

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