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Originally Posted by Critteranne
Did anything happen about the company that was fighting the Doyle estate over ownership of Holmes? I haven't read much about it since this article. |
The only copyright of any remaining significance is the US copyright. The copyright in the rest of the English speaking world has expired.
The Conan Doyle family reclaimed the US copyright of the last stories under US copyright law in 1981 (rights could be reclaimed after the original 56 years of US copyright and extension, so that the extra copyright length granted in the 1977 act could benefit the author or their family).
US courts have held several times that the termination of rights was done correctly.