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Originally Posted by CommonReader
bvious though it is to point this out, please don't download this if you live in the United States since, as you know, the final Holmes book, "The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes", is still under US copyright. It's all in the public domain pretty much everywhere else.
I admit that this is OT but how can books written by an author who died in 1930 not be in the public domain?
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For a short time, Holmes was out of copyright—then a Conan Doyle heir recovered the rights under the Copyright Act of 1976. According to a literary agent for the Conan Doyle estate, Holmes remains under copyright protection until 2023 in the US.