Keyboards ready? Produce...SHERLOCK FIC!

[delphipsmith]

"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?)

Comments

[droxy.livejournal.com]

Given Disney has exploited Conan Doyle since the 1970s I would have thought it public domain. =)

Hoping success to those attempting to write for profit.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

I suspect that the BBC has various copyrights on Sherlock - that have nothing to do with Conan Doyle.

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.

[nursedarry.livejournal.com]

Good lord, anything I produced would:

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...

[anna-bird.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm reading a Sherlock anthology (of fanfic, hahahahahahah) from 2009 that has a well-known ficcer (ficster? ficface? Oh fine, AUTHOR)'s fanfic in it. Woo to her for getting the jump on things!