Legal Opinion
Leslie Klinger v. Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 16, 2014No. 14-1128PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Arthur Conan Doyle published his first Sherlock Holmes story in 1887 and his last in 1927. There were 56 stories in all, plus 4 novels. The final 10 stories were published between 1923 and 1927. As a result of statutory extensions of copyright protection culminating in the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act, the American copyrights on those final stories (copyrights owned by Doyle’s estate, the appellant) will not expire until 95 years after the date of original publication — between 2018 to 2022, depending on the original publication date of each story. The copyrights on…
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