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In response to "Netflix and Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate agree to dismiss lawsuit over Sherlock Holmes’ emotions" by crash davis

So, their argument was the tv show made Holmes not an asshole and thus that was the still-protected version?

Posted by Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz) Dec 22 '20, 06:17

Listen, it’s awesome you tried to not make our meal ticket a dickhead, but we gotta draw the line at him not hating women.

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It sounds ridiculous. They made Sherlock cool which I think would help the estate and gave all the bad tendencies to Mycroft. -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 06:19 10
- Is this one of those "We need to sue occasionally no matter how ridiculous in order to protect our trademark" situations? -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 22, 06:21 9
  - Their last copyrights expire in 2022 and 2023. It might be "This is our last chance to file legal papers!" -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 06:22 6
    - Lawyers, I thought things went into public domain a certain number of years after the death of the author. What's different here? (NM) - Marlowe Dec 22, 06:30 5
      - Most of it is already in the public domain. The last few stories go public in two years. So they claimed the last few stories were a different Holmes. -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 06:33 4
        
        That I got, but since the author is the same, why didn't everything go public at the same time? (NM) - Marlowe Dec 22, 06:39 3
        
        It is based on date of publication. -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 06:45 2
        
        It's all in the public domain in the UK but US has different length of copyright. - LMS Dec 22, 07:02 1
        
        That inside is funny. And thanks for the clarification! -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 07:10
  - I heard about this before. The estate is VERY protective of that specific version of Holmes -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 22, 06:22 1
    - They don't sue when the new books are published though, only when the film/TV version is made. - LMS Dec 22, 07:10

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So, their argument was the tv show made Holmes not an asshole and thus that was the still-protected version?

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