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consult-sherlockholmes · 1 year

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Just a short question: It's 2023, so do you have feelings now?

Let me check.

#Rp #Roleplay #Sherlock rp #bbc sherlock #sherlock and john #sherlock fandom #sherlock bbc #sherlock #sherlock holmes #Acd #acd canon #doyle estate #Sherlock copyright #johnlock roleplay

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prokopetz · 1 year

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At the time of this posting, it is now 37 days until the final two original Sherlock Holmes casefiles written by Arthur Conan Doyle enter the public domain.

#media #literature #sherlock holmes #arthur conan doyle #copyright #public domain

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mwagneto · 1 year

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okay just to clear this up since people are spreading misinfo even though the truth is way funnier. SHERLOCK HOLMES HAS BEEN IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR AGES. a few stories haven't, sure, but the doyle estate doesn't give a fuck what you do with him either way. he was already gay in 1970 (private life of sh) and was a jolly & emotional guy in 1979 (murder by decree).

when you see people/articles saying the ""doyle estate"" threatened to sue people for things, such as guy ritchie for making him too gay in his 2009&2011 movies, that is NOT THE DOYLE ESTATE!!!!!! all those stories are about one single woman, Andrea Plunket. her claim to Holmes is that she married someone who owned US copyrights to some Holmes stories but the thing is. they got divorced in the NINETIES and she has Zero claims to Holmes. she's literally going insane about Holmes possibly being gay thirty years after her husband owned the rights to him, she literally never has and never will, and people have been doing whatever they wanted to Holmes for decades now. it's obviously all a play to squeeze some money out of anyone she can, the entire story is so insane i suggest you guys look it up and read about it more but tldr:

#like they literally made a movie where he fights a t-rex and both holmes and watson have been canonically gay before (separately)#literally noone cares what they do to him and even if they did they couldn't have stopped it since it's #only the stories that are copyrighted due to holmes first appearing as a character in a newspaper #it's all very complex but point is it's some rich american heiress who has 0 power and endless time #sherlock holmes #public domain #andrea plunket #doyle estate

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zeldahime · 1 year

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Happy public domain day!

Some notable things that entered the public domain in the US today are:

The Jazz Singer, the first “talkie” or movie with sound

The first three Hardy Boys books

The last two Sherlock Holmes stories

The Lodger, Alfred Hitchcock’s first film

And all other works published in 1927 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1952!

#public domain #happy new year #copyright #the hardy boys #Sherlock Holmes #film history #alfred hitchcock #the original version of this post incorrectly listed Steamboat Willie!#that error has been rectified #it doesn’t enter until next year

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genderqueersherlockholmes · 11 days

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guys... i just need to say it . its really important . sherlock & co is a podcast adaption of the sherlock holmes stories . its not a podcast adaption of bbc sherlock .

#they would get copyrighted to hell and back if it was an adaption of bbc sherlock that literally could not happen #im sorry its just so hard . i see so many people who obviously are looking at the pod through a bbc-pilled lens and that is just not real #you need to heal from your experiences . bbc sherlock never happened . im sorry . you need to wake up #sherlock & co #sherlock and co

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got-no-skill · 1 year

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#sherlock holmes #sherlock #crab rave #copyright #public domain #eat shit doyle estate #have we ever discussed how much of a detriment to the growth of a property's fanbase copyright is?

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thealieninhiding · 1 year

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PSA Sherlock Holmes is already Public Domain. (in 2022)

Edit: Happy Public Domain Day / Happy New Year.

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In the UK and many other countries all of the canon has been public domain for decades. On January 1st 2023 aka Public Domain Day "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger" and "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" last two Sherlock Holmes works by Doyle still protected by copyright enter the public domain in the United States. The consequences of that are as follows: you can now adapt, rewrite, remix, make derivatives of those last Casebook stories and any elements within. That is it.

The Conan Doyle Estate Ltd has lost lawsuits over the fact that Sherlock, the characters, and any and all elements of the books in the public domain can be used to create works.

You can right now legally make, sell, publish derivative work of Holmes stories (except the last 2), make original stories or any and all characters (not introduced in the last 2 stories) and have them interact in any way, shipping to your hearts content

You cannot now nor in January legally make derivative works of the still copyrighted adaptation, original material from the BBC, Guy Ritchie, Enola Holmes, pastiches or any other source is protected.

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and the inability to know if tumblr posters are serious in thinking that it’s important to allow legal Holmes/Watson creative work. Some people are definitely confused about the PD status of Holmes so hopefully this clears that up.

#Sherlock #sherlock holmes #copyright #public domain #arthur conan doyle #public domain day #copyright law #john watson #johnlock #holmes/watson #autism #autistic special interest #it’s copyright #the special interest is copyright

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cfiesler · 1 year

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Happy “Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain” day!

Because the character of Sherlock Holmes did not originate in a single work, but rather a series of short stories that were published over time (between 1887 and 1927), though the character has been in the public domain due to expired copyright for some time, only as he appeared in the early stories.

So though e.g. BBC paid licensing fees to the Conan Doyle estate to be on the safe side, there have also been lawsuits splitting hairs about whether a particular portrayal of the character contained elements that were still under copyright. A 2014 U.S. Court of Appeals case established that yes, Sherlock Holmes the character was in the public domain, copyright protection would still apply to elements that only appeared in later stories--for example, Holmes’ love of dogs and Watson’s marriages.

So what about this guy?

Conan Doyle’s estate actually sued Netflix over the film Enola Holmes because they claimed that Sherlock’s character was too “warm” and had “more respect for women” than he did in the earlier, public domain stories. The lawsuit went away - rightfully, because I cannot imagine any world in which Netflix lost that case - but as of today, we no longer have to worry about such silly lawsuits. Because as of today every one of Conan Doyle’s portrayals of Sherlock Holmes is officially in the public domain!

Of course, keep in mind that this applies to Conan Doyle’s work and not other portrayals of Sherlock Holmes that might have their own copyrighted elements. So if you’re writing Johnlock fanfic that is very clearly based on the BBC version, maybe keep it noncommercial. :)

Also here’s a video if you want to hear me talk about this for 3 minutes instead!

#sherlock holmes #public domain #enola holmes #sherlock #sherlock fanfiction #copyright #arthur conan doyle

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opencharacters · 5 months

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Copyright Smuggling: Doctor Who

I've talked in the past about how The Doctor not having a name or permanent appearance is very easily molded to be put into your own derivative fiction.

Even so, perhaps you want to incorporate more whovian elements into your story. While things like the Daleks are obviously off the table, there are characters and enemies that are public domain in the whoniverse that are ripe for the picking.

I'm linking pages to the public domain versions of these characters. But have listed here where they show up in the Doctor Who expanded universe.

Cernunnos - Leader of the Original Mammoths (proposed identity of "the Enemy" from the War in Heaven) appeared first in the Faction Paradox books The Book of the War.

Doctor Omega - 1906 novel about a scientist who builds a machine that can travel through time and space. He's similar enough to be able to be molded into the role of the Doctor.

Dorian Gray - Character from the Bernice Summerfield audio drama "Shades of Gray" that has similar abilities of eternal youth as the literary character we know. He eventually got his own Big Finish audio drama series The Confessions of Dorian Gray

Ganieda - Said to be Merlin's sister in the short story A Honeycomb of Souls.

Hastur the Unspeakable - Fenric according to the novel All-Consuming Fire

Merlin - From various accounts is suggested to be an incarnation of the doctor, including the aforementioned A Honeycomb of Souls

Nyarlathotep - Suggested to be the doctor in the novel The Death of Art

Sherlock Holmes - According to The Book of the Enemy during the War in Heaven although he was a real person in the whoniverse his life got erased and turned into fiction

Thomas Carnacki - Has met the second doctor as well as Vastra, Jenny Flint, and Strax according to The Screaming Ceiling audio and the Foreign Devils novel

Yog-Sothoth - The Great Intelligence according to the book Millennial Rites

In addition to this there's also the Land of Fiction which is a realm canon to the doctor who series filled with public domain characters

Go forth and write your Doctor Who pastiches, nothing is stopping ya!

#doctor who #copyright #dweu #public domain #writing #writing tips #the doctor #sherlock holmes #cthulhu mythos

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dduane · 1 year

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Cory talks at (delightful!) length here about things that come (in some cases, “fully”) into the public domain on January 1, 2023. Including one seriously dear to my heart. :)))))

#Sherlock Holmes #copyright

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honey-everythingisonfire · 1 year

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SHERLOCK HOLMES RETURNS TO PUBLIC DOMAIN which means it is time to finally bring back gentleman sherlock declaring his love for john and respecting women and being autistic

#sherlock holmes #the adventures of sherlock holmes #sherlock holmes copyright #acd sherlock #arthur conan doyle

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nostalgia-tblr · 8 months

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The immense satisfaction that comes from saying "wait, how old is this book?" when Amazon tries to sell me a very old-fashioned-looking work for 'just £1.99' and then finding it on Project Gutenberg for free instead.

#that history book from 1900 is going to be very out of date but sometimes there's some appealing element in there #and obvs many primary sources themselves are already old anyway #and old fiction too! mary shelley wrote a novel about perkin warbeck! (i need to get round to reading that one)#70000 free books you are bound to want at least one of them right?#has the author been dead for long enough that you think of them as a historical figure? their work is probably free by now!#tumblr faves Moby Dick and Dracula are there you know. Sherlock Holmes! Oscar Wilde and Jane Austen. Mary Shelley AND her mum!#protip: rename the files as you download them otherwise you'll never guess which is which as the filenames are just numbers #*slaps the roof of project gutenberg* you can fit so much out-of-copyright material in this thing.

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threepatchpodcast · 1 year

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