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The Doyle estate's argument hinged on the idea that Sherlock Holmes was a complex and defined character, one whose characteristics were set down by Doyle. There's another interesting facet to the case, too. This, in turn, would make it more difficult or more expensive for future artists to work, since a great deal of art draws on earlier works. Creating a longer term on copyright for characters would reduce the number of works flowing into the public domain. Holmes' lasting popularity is a rarity among fictional characters-most fall out of favor within years, not decades. Part of the motivation for the Judge's decision, says Molly Van Houweling for the Authors Alliance, was a consideration of what the larger ramifications of extending the copyright on Holmes would have on art in general. Judge Richard Posner didn't buy the argument, and he ruled that Sherlock Holmes, the character, is now in the public domain. The defense of the Doyle estate went something like this: sure, Arthur Conan Doyle's stories are now at least 90 years old, but other stories about Sherlock Holmes are still under copyright, therefore Sherlock Holmes is still under copyright. Conan Doyle EstateВ that settled the claim actually rested on an interesting issue, whether a copyright claim can persist on a character even if the works depicting that character have fallen out of copyright. A legal ruling announced this week, however, has set Holmes free: the characterВ and all his companions (as penned by Doyle) are now in the public domain.

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Every time someone wanted to write a story or film a movie about Sharlock Holmes, the Doyle estate would collect a fee. Thanks toВ copyright law, those stories have also continued to benefit Doyle's heirs for the past 84 years. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930, but his most famous work-stories about the English detective Sherlock Holmes-hasВ lived on. William Powell and John Barrymore in the Silent Film Sherlock Holmes, 1922

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