The Greatest Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Conan Doyle Estate Ltd., the court ruled that the Holmes and Watson characters as described in the 'story elements' that stem from most of the stories-those published before 1924-are in the public domain. The plaintiff was well-known Sherlockian editor, and Los Angeles entertainment lawyer, Leslie S. The defendant in the case was Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. In 2013, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois handed down a ruling about copyright protection, not for the stories themselves, but for the characters of Holmes and Watson. The company had a web page setting out its views about other claimants to those rights. claimed they held the American copyrights. In the United Kingdom, its copyright was later revived in 1995, expiring again in 1 January 2001. The copyrights expired on 1 January 1981 in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

They entered the public domain on 1 January 2023, the year after the 95th anniversary of the stories' publication. In the United States, two of the short stories from The Case-Book, 'The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger' and 'The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place', were the last two Sherlock Holmes works by Doyle still protected by copyright.

' The Adventure of the Retired Colourman'Ĭopyright history and challenges ' The Adventure of the Illustrious Client' The first edition of The Case-Book, published by John Murray in 1927, does not present the stories in the order in which they were published: First edition ( John Murray, 1927) The title of the British collection was The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes ( hyphenated 'Case-Book'), whereas the title of the American edition was The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes ('Case Book' as two words).įurther confusing the issue of the title, some later publishers released the collection under the title The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes ('Casebook' as a single word). However, they had slightly different titles. Doran Co., were both published in June 1927.

The first British edition of the collection, published by John Murray, and the first American edition, published by George H. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Strand Magazine between October 1921 and April 1927. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes at Wikisource

The Greatest Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle