{"id":46227,"date":"2014-11-04T20:13:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T03:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/sherlock-holmes-detective-extraordinaire-and-public-domain.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T08:15:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T15:15:39","slug":"sherlock-holmes-detective-extraordinaire-and-public-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/sherlock-holmes-detective-extraordinaire-and-public-domain.html","title":{"rendered":"Sherlock Holmes, Detective Extraordinaire (and Public Domain)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court has decline an appeal by the Conan Doyle Estate, leaving standing a ruling that fifty of Arthur Conan Doyle&#39;s Sherlock Holmes stories, published before 1923, have entered the public domain. Ten stories, from 1923-1927, are still under copyright for a few years more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/11\/03\/usa-court-copyright-idINKBN0IN1DC20141103'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/rTmfpQo3NAgOkX4FkAT04MNQqfbdjvLEoYa4fqAQ6hrGcQ_48VZt0vPwqa0h5bTBxHct4Jq5ymIi4he8jBdNwFanSdL8krRDUkbtxyvZfDsY3dU5X0yd-Omw-U6sMF-j2OcDTv153kG2_-uH5ozzRXc52VlgszymtQ=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/11\/03\/usa-court-copyright-idINKBN0IN1DC20141103'>Elementary, my dear Watson: U.S. court rejects Sherlock Holmes dispute<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/dShVuv9sj5F'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court has decline an appeal by the Conan Doyle Estate, leaving standing a ruling that fifty of Arthur Conan Doyle&#39;s Sherlock Holmes stories, published before 1923, have entered the public domain. Ten stories, from 1923-1927, are still under copyright for a few years more. Elementary, my dear Watson: U.S. court rejects Sherlock &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/sherlock-holmes-detective-extraordinaire-and-public-domain.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sherlock Holmes, Detective Extraordinaire (and Public Domain)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-46227","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":135256,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/01\/happy-birthday-sherlock-holmes.html","url_meta":{"origin":46227,"position":0},"title":"Happy Birthday, Sherlock Holmes!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 1-Nov-17 9:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Great Detective's first story, \"A Study in Scarlet,\" was first published 130 years ago today. 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Of course, given what a botch I expect this to be, that may not be a good thing. #ddtb Embedded Link\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132509,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/04\/holmesmania.html","url_meta":{"origin":46227,"position":3},"title":"Holmesmania","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Jan-17 10:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Reading an article like this makes me think the Sherlock crew are more interested in indulging in Holmes Easter Eggs than actually writing a story. (Though the story involved was pretty decent.) 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