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Sherlock's Expiring Copyright: It's Public Domain, Dear Watson

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Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson travel by train in original artwork from <em>Strand</em> magazine. A federal judge in Chicago recently ruled that the characters in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories — excluding any elements introduced in the last 10 stories released in the U.S. after 1922 — now reside in the public domain. (Getty Images)
Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson travel by train in original artwork from Strand magazine. A federal judge in Chicago recently ruled that the characters in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories — excluding any elements introduced in the last 10 stories released in the U.S. after 1922 — now reside in the public domain. (Getty Images)

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