![]() To attempt to dismantle Holmes’s character is not only impossible as a practical matter, but would ignore the reality that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a single complex character complete in sixty stories. But there are not sixty versions of Sherlock Holmes in the sixty stories there is one complex Sherlock Holmes. Plaintiff’s position would create multiple personalities out of Sherlock Holmes: a ‘public domain’ version of his character attempting to only use only public domain traits, next to the true character Sir Arthur created. As Gardner reports, the estate is arguing that: The estate of Sherlock Holmes, which initially failed to respond to a lawsuit by the lawyer and Sherlock Holmes expert Leslie Klinger (he’s responsible for the new annotated Sherlock Holmes collections) aiming to prove that Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation is out of copyright, is now trying to argue that all the works in the Sherlock Holmes canon - not just the ones written before the end of the copyright deadline - need to stay copyrighted because they’re a part of a contiguous creation of a character. At The Hollywood Reporter, Eriq Gardner reports on a fascinating copyright case. ![]()
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