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New Bill to Limit Copyright to 56 Years, Would be Retroactive
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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8646010" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>Corporations will often complain about "infringements" that may not be strictly infringements in an effort to intimidate or exhaust the litigation budget of their target. Disney won't be an exception there.</p><p></p><p>That said, the issue of Sherlock Holmes is a particularly interesting one. Most of the works featuring him as a character are out of copyright protection - but some are in the US under US copyright law (though not UK law). The makers of Enola Holmes, the novels and the movie, were sued under the claim that they leaned on those works that are still under copyright - because those were the ones in which Doyle made Holmes a more emotional and warmer person and less of a cold fish. They apparently settled or something since the lawsuit was dismissed with the agreement of all sides.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 8646010, member: 3400"] Corporations will often complain about "infringements" that may not be strictly infringements in an effort to intimidate or exhaust the litigation budget of their target. Disney won't be an exception there. That said, the issue of Sherlock Holmes is a particularly interesting one. Most of the works featuring him as a character are out of copyright protection - but some are in the US under US copyright law (though not UK law). The makers of Enola Holmes, the novels and the movie, were sued under the claim that they leaned on those works that are still under copyright - because those were the ones in which Doyle made Holmes a more emotional and warmer person and less of a cold fish. They apparently settled or something since the lawsuit was dismissed with the agreement of all sides. [/QUOTE]
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