Even though I favor renewable copyright forever, I agree with this ruling.
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Mr. Allison [lawyer for the Conan Doyle estate] also reiterated the estate's claim that the "highly delineated" Holmes and Watson characters depend on elements introduced in the post-1923 stories, which remain protected.
"Those stories are set at a variety of points in Sherlock's fictional life, not just the end of his life," he said. "They develop the two men's characters in ways that almost any use of the characters depends on."
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Dream on. You guys are grasping at straws.