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Originally Posted by Katsunami
So... Sherlock Holmes is not in PD in the UK at this point in time, as Conan Doyle died in 1930?
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Umm... no. Sherlock Holmes entered the UK public domain on 1st January 1981, fifty years after the death of Conan Doyle.
They gain a restored copyright in the UK on 1st January 1996 (or perhaps a few months before - I'm uncertain as to exactly when the 1995 act came into force).
They then became public domain again in the UK on 1st January 2001, 70 years after Conan Doyle's death.
Any work that gained a restored copyright due to the 1995 act fell into the public domain again at some point between 1996 and 1st January 2015. They are all now in the public domain in the UK.
On 1st January 2016, the UK will gain the first public domain works that have never been in the public domain in the UK before.