Sherlock Holmes and the copyright tangle

spagiola writes: The New York Times has an interesting piece on the copyright travails of Sherlock Holmes: "At his age, Holmes would logically seem to have entered the public domain. But not only is the character still under copyright in the United States, for nearly 80 years he has also been caught in a web of ownership issues so tangled that Professor Moriarty wouldn't have wished them upon him."

Thanks Sonny! Thanks Disney!

[negRo_slim]

Once again personal enrichment trumps enrichment of our society as a whole.

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[conureman]

This sort of law impugns the integrity of the system. I'd like to adapt some Fredric Brown stories, but probably better to plagiarise, then pay off whoever crawls out and claims ownership.