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In response to "It sounds ridiculous. They made Sherlock cool which I think would help the estate and gave all the bad tendencies to Mycroft. -- nm" by crash davis

Is this one of those "We need to sue occasionally no matter how ridiculous in order to protect our trademark" situations? -- nm

Posted by Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 (aka BaronWasteland) Dec 22 '20, 06:21

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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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