For Jonathan Kirsch, a Los Angeles attorney, it’s elementary: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s literary works published before 1923 are in the public domain.
Kirsch and Scott Gilbert of Chicago’s Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP are seeking to have the federal court in Chicago declare that most of Doyle’s books and stories involving his most famous creationSherlock Holmesare no longer protected by copyright law.
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