Sherlock Holmes: 'A study in copyright'
"It's a bogus argument. It means you can reprint Conan Doyle's own stories freely but you can't make up a new story? It doesn't make logical sense," said author Leslie Klinger, who brought the case against the Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. to settle the matter. With last week's ruling in hand, Klinger plans to finish work on "In the Company of Sherlock Holmes," a book of original short stories featuring characters and other elements from Conan Doyle's work. He is coediting the book with plans to publish this fall. If appeals judges hold it up, the ruling could lift the threat of legal action for the untold scores of writers out there churning out pastiches and fan fiction without permission. "Whatever decision they make will essentially determine the fate of many characters, not just Sherlock Holmes and Dr. "At the very least it's going to affect the bargaining power as to what the estate can do in trying to sell it to the studio," Supnik said.
Joseph Bell
Joseph Bell, JP, DL, FRCS (2 December 1837 – 4 October 1911) was a Scottish lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the 19th century. He is perhaps best known as an inspiration for the literary character Sherlock Holmes. Life and career[edit] Bell was a great-grandson of Benjamin Bell, a forensic surgeon. Bell studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School and received an MD in 1859. Bell wrote the book Manual of the Operations of Surgery which was published in 1883.[1] Joseph Bell died on 4 October 1911. Inspiration of Sherlock Holmes[edit] Dramatisation[edit] In the BBC television series Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes was a fictionalised account of Doyle's time as Bell's clerk. In 2006, Stone Publishing House published a book, written by historian Dr. The comic book Les dossiers du Professeur Bell by Joann Sfar is about the (fictional) supernatural adventures of Dr. Memorial[edit] Grave[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
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This Kat will be speaking at the forthcoming Copyright and Technology Conference, that will be held in London on 17 October 2013. The organisers have just informed her that she can invite one lucky person to attend the conference for free, instead of having to pay the £249 registration fee. Mindful of the fact that younger copyright enthusiasts with limited financial support from their own organisations might find ... let's just say "challenging" to attend these sorts of events, this Kat has decided to donate her own complimentary ticket to the creative soul who will complete the following stanza in the most original (not just for the sake of copyright protection!) and amusing (at least according to peculiarly feline sense of humour) way: Roses are red, Violets are blue, Copyright is ... This is not the only good news. This means that two lucky copyright enthusiasts will be able to attend this great event. Good luck!
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The (latest) adventures of Sherlock Holmes: a small win for the public domain
We investigate the District Court of Illinois decision Klinger v Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd., confirming that literary characters can be freely used without a licence where copyright has expired on early works in a series. Character elements introduced in later works which are still subject to copyright cannot be used without a licence. Click here to view the image. “The Man with the Twisted Lip” by Sidney Paget, published in the December 1891 edition of The Strand Magazine, from Wikimedia Commons. Leslie Klinger, a Sherlock Holmes expert and editor of a series of new Holmes stories, sought a declaration from the District Court of Illinois that there was no need for him to obtain a copyright licence to use the characters of Holmes and Doctor Watson in his new book. In Australia and most of Europe, all the Sherlock Holmes stories are already in the public domain. In other words, the position is elementary, dear reader! The Conan Doyle estate plans to appeal.
The (Latest) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A small win for the public domain - IP Whiteboard | King & Wood Mallesons
We investigate the District Court of Illinois decision Klinger v Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd., confirming that literary characters can be freely used without a licence where copyright has expired on early works in a series. Character elements introduced in later works which are still subject to copyright cannot be used without a licence. “The Man with the Twisted Lip” by Sidney Paget, published in the December 1891 edition of The Strand Magazine, from Wikimedia Commons. Leslie Klinger, a Sherlock Holmes expert and editor of a series of new Holmes stories, sought a declaration from the District Court of Illinois that there was no need for him to obtain a copyright licence to use the characters of Holmes and Doctor Watson in his new book. In Australia and most of Europe, all the Sherlock Holmes stories are already in the public domain. The Conan Doyle estate argued that the characters are complex and multi-dimensional and that they hadn’t been completely developed in the public domain stories.
