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The Adventure Of The Sherlock Holmes Copyright Case

Law360, New York (June 17, 2014, 5:56 PM EDT) -- On June 16, Judge Richard Posner handed down the opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on the case involving the dispute over whether the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson continue to be protected by copyright even though 50 of the 60 works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that feature the characters are now too old to qualify for copyright protection in the United States. The case is Klinger v. Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. The Seventh Circuit affirmed the opinion of the federal district court, which issued in December of 2013: Holmes and Watson (or the five-sixths of them that is now too old to be protected by copyright) now below to the world....

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