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Sherlock Holmes - The Sherlock Holmes copyright | | Sherlock Holmes - The Sherlock Holmes copyright: Encyclopedia II - Sherlock Holmes - The Sherlock Holmes copyright | | The copyright of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works and of the Sherlock Holmes character were predominately held by his descendants, starting first with his son Adrian Doyle. After Adrian's death in 1970, Dame Jean Conan Doyle (Conan Doyle's daughter) and the other descendants sold the rights to Baskerville Investments, a firm headed by the surviving wife of Doyle's eldest son. The Bank of Scotland took over the European rights after a loan defaulted and auctioned them off to a consortium ...
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Sherlock Holmes - The Sherlock Holmes copyright
The copyright of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works and of the Sherlock Holmes character were predominately held by his descendants, starting first with his son Adrian Doyle. After Adrian's death in 1970, Dame Jean Conan Doyle (Conan Doyle's daughter) and the other descendants sold the rights to Baskerville Investments, a firm headed by the surviving wife of Doyle's eldest son. The Bank of Scotland took over the European rights after a loan defaulted and auctioned them off to a consortium led by the producer of the 1954 Holmes series, Sheldon Reynolds.
In 1981, the copyright expired everywhere except in the United States, where it was recaptured by Sir Arthur's daughter Dame Jean Conan Doyle under the provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. The U.S. rights are owned today, following her death in November 1997, by the Estate of Dame Jean Conan Doyle. Its U.S. agent can be contacted at jonlellenberg@aol.com.
After Dame Jean's death, a former wife of Sheldon Reynolds, Andrea Plunket, claimed that she was the true owner of the existing rights. But her claim was rejected in a series of U.S. Federal Court decisions, and her attempt to trademark Sherlock Holmes was rejected by the U.S. Patent Office; the courts found that Plunket neither owns nor represents the owners of the Conan Doyle rights in the United States.
Originally, Dame Jean left the American rights to the Royal National Institute for the Blind, but the executors of her Estate wished to keep them in the family's hands, and negotiated a buy-out; the Estate of Dame Jean Conan Doyle continues to own the rights in the United States. The Case Book is the only Sherlock Holmes work with an outstanding American copyright and will pass into the public domain in 2023.
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