“Sherlock Holmes” Is Now Officially Off Copyright and Open for Business

[Independent voter]

Finally something has lost copyright protection.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...951794/?no-ist

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930, but his most famous work—stories about the English detective Sherlock Holmes—has lived on. Thanks to copyright law, those stories have also continued to benefit Doyle's heirs for the past 84 years. Every time someone wanted to write a story or film a movie about Sharlock Holmes, the Doyle estate would collect a fee. A legal ruling announced this week, however, has set Holmes free: the character and all his companions (as penned by Doyle) are now in the public domain.

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Music automatically loses it's copyright after 50/70 years.