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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9233111" data-attributes="member: 86653"><p>Later in the article Doctorow calls out how despite that SCOTUS ruling, it's still a thing trademark holders actively do: </p><p></p><p>"The ambiguity of overlapping trademarks and copyrights, combined with the very long duration of copyrights, and confused legal history about whether characters themselves get copyright when parts of their canon enter the public domain is a source of great mischief for many of the characters of the last century. Sherlock Holmes is <a href="http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/sherlock-holmes-case-decision-public-domain-1201346225/" target="_blank">in the public domain</a> (so long as you steer clear of details introduced in some of the films, and elements of the character developed in the handful of stories published after 1923), but litigious organizations threaten people who <a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/conan-copyright-trol.html" target="_blank">treat Robert E Howard's Conan as if he were in the public domain</a>, and the same goes for <a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/10/16/buck-rogers-and-the-copyright.html" target="_blank">Buck Rogers</a> and the HP Lovecraft canon."</p><p></p><p>In the USA you only get as much justice as you can afford. Which Doctorow also calls out in that article.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 9233111, member: 86653"] Later in the article Doctorow calls out how despite that SCOTUS ruling, it's still a thing trademark holders actively do: "The ambiguity of overlapping trademarks and copyrights, combined with the very long duration of copyrights, and confused legal history about whether characters themselves get copyright when parts of their canon enter the public domain is a source of great mischief for many of the characters of the last century. Sherlock Holmes is [URL='http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/sherlock-holmes-case-decision-public-domain-1201346225/']in the public domain[/URL] (so long as you steer clear of details introduced in some of the films, and elements of the character developed in the handful of stories published after 1923), but litigious organizations threaten people who [URL='http://boingboing.net/2009/02/25/conan-copyright-trol.html']treat Robert E Howard's Conan as if he were in the public domain[/URL], and the same goes for [URL='http://boingboing.net/2015/10/16/buck-rogers-and-the-copyright.html']Buck Rogers[/URL] and the HP Lovecraft canon." In the USA you only get as much justice as you can afford. Which Doctorow also calls out in that article. [/QUOTE]
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