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ooli · 3841 days ago · link · · parent · post: “Sherlock Holmes” Is Now Officially Off Copyright and Open for Business

It means I can write a Sherlock Holmes fan fiction, and selfpublish it!! It's tempting!

A few weeks back it was "the Little Prince" from Saint Exupery who went public. Except some greedy right owner managed to keep a copiryght on all the characters... So no little prince, or fox, or sheep-in-a-box fan fiction.

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user-inactivated · 3841 days ago · link ·

You can already do that if you don't profit. And there has been a ton of published, profiting Sherlock Holmes "fanfiction" -- just, I imagine, with kickbacks.

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