A year after Winnie-the-Pooh entered the public domain, famed detective Sherlock Holmes is officially and fully free to use as a character in new novels and films.
— Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed detective Sherlock Holmes is officially and fully free to use as a character in new novels and films as the 95-year copyright on the Doyle’s final Holmes books has expired.
As noted by the Public Domain Day site, the Doyle estate had long argued that they were the right holders of the Holmes character, requiring authors and film producers to license the character and threatening legal action against inspired-by works like Netflix’sHowever, as the final Holmes story enters the public domain, so does any potential legal claims the Doyle estate has over the character, with any author now legally allowed to pen their own Holmes novel, and any film studio free to adapt...
However, like in the case of Disney’s version of Winnie-the-Pooh, those variations on a preexisting character have their own 95-year copyright protection, even as the original version’s rights expire; for example, while Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain, the big screen version played by Robert Downey Jr. is still protected for another seven decades or so.
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