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"A judge has ruled that the vast majority of Arthur Conan Doyle‘s Sherlock Holmes stories are now in the public domain in the US, which means (among other things) that you can make money off your Johnlock fic without Conan Doyle’s heirs swooping down on you with blazing swords, ready to exact financial vengeance. It’s go time..."
Read the rest here. So all of you go start selling your Sherlock fic :D
(I don't have any Sherlock icons so you get Giles. Librarian, detective, same thing, right?)
Read the rest here. So all of you go start selling your Sherlock fic :D
(I don't have any Sherlock icons so you get Giles. Librarian, detective, same thing, right?)
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Date: 2013-12-31 01:12 am (UTC)Hoping success to those attempting to write for profit.
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Date: 2013-12-31 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-31 06:18 am (UTC)And ACD has been in the public domain in the UK for years. But it's good to see that we may be getting some sort of consensus on international copyright, if by default. The US has always been greedy about keeping stuff out of the public domain.
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Date: 2013-12-31 06:41 pm (UTC)That's an interesting point about the BBC. I'm not sure how copyright works with something that moved into the public domain -- is it even possible to, er, "re-copyright" it? Now I'm curious...
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Date: 2014-01-01 05:29 am (UTC)Gatiss and Moffat have the rights on their scripts for Sherlock, and the BBC has the rights to the actual series, but of course there is not (and never has been) 'copyright on ideas'. I am getting fed up of pointing out that you can only infringe 'copyright' by making an exact (or substantially close) copy of a work - that's what 'copyright' means!
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Date: 2013-12-31 11:12 am (UTC)a)not be fit for public consumption - and that includes my beta *cough*
b)even more OOC than anything recently written/filmed/imagined
c)Probably be even too scary for HSU, and that's saying a lot
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a shit-tonne of Sherstrade recs to get through...
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Date: 2013-12-31 06:44 pm (UTC)Too bad Kirk and Khan won't be in the public domain until at least 2080...
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Date: 2013-12-31 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-01 01:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-01 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-01 08:11 pm (UTC)And here's the story (at what I assume was its original home? Although I guess she could've posted it there after it was published in print): http://www.intimations.org/fanfic/holmes/Commonplaces.html
It IS slashy, but sadly only in suggestion. TBH it's really an Irene Adler story. But who knows--I'm only halfway through the anthology and more H/W might appear.