{"id":32776,"date":"2013-03-13T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T21:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/13\/the-case-of-the-curious-copyrights.html"},"modified":"2014-01-08T11:05:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T18:05:58","slug":"the-case-of-the-curious-copyrights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/13\/the-case-of-the-curious-copyrights.html","title":{"rendered":"The Case of the Curious Copyrights"},"content":{"rendered":"
Complexity in US copyright law is bad enough. Compound it with territorial application by each nation, and it becomes nightmarish.<\/p>\n

There are occasional efforts to make copyright laws match across countries, but (a) the motivations behind copyright in each country vary, and (b) the efforts are almost always driven by Big Media to maximize copyright (profit) globally.<\/p>\n

Bottom line here, in the US the Sherlock Holmes stories are public domain. Sorta. Well, mostly. But possibly not entirely. Not for a while yet. Until things change again. \u00a0Clear now?<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Public Domain<\/a>
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Complexity in US copyright law is bad enough. Compound it with territorial application by each nation, and it becomes nightmarish. There are occasional efforts to make copyright laws match across countries, but (a) the motivations behind copyright in each country vary, and (b) the efforts are almost always driven by Big Media to maximize copyright … Continue reading “The Case of the Curious Copyrights”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,79,526],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-intellectual-property","category-sherlock-holmes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46227,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/sherlock-holmes-detective-extraordinaire-and-public-domain.html","url_meta":{"origin":32776,"position":0},"title":"Sherlock Holmes, Detective Extraordinaire (and Public Domain)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Nov-14 8:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The US Supreme Court has decline an appeal by the Conan Doyle Estate, leaving standing a ruling that fifty of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, published before 1923, have entered the public domain. 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