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Originally Posted by Belladonna
Arthur Conan Doyle's works entered public domain in the United Kingdom in 2000, according to Sherlockian.net. |
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Originally Posted by HarryT
How do you reach that conclusion? Certainly Conan Doyle is in the public domain; 1930 is more than 70 years ago.
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When I wrote that post, I was thinking that copyright just got extended by 20 years. It did, but only for authors who had just entered public domain very shortly before the rule change. Conan Doyle entered public domain about 15 years earlier, so he would have been out of PD for about 5 years.
I wouldn't even be surprised to hear on december 28th that copyright will be extended retroactively to Life+100 or something... taking something such as Sherlock Holmes out of copyright again for another 15 years.
Still, if everything stays as it is now, I'll probably still be alive when Tolkien will hit PD, which would be on januari 1 2044...