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Originally Posted by rdfry
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.
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This only applies to the
Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Any book published before 1923 is in the US public domain. All other Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories are in the US public domain. Two stories of the
Case-book, "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone," and "The Problem of the Bridge," are in the US public domain because they were published before 1923.