The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal asking it to overturn a decision that granted a writer permission to use the Holmes character in her stories. That means anyone can now take a stab at writing new cases for the world’s most famous fictional detective.
Fan-fictioners, slash-fictioners, pulp-o-philes, rationalists, positivists, Victorians, colonials, imperials, Freudians, Londoners, coke-heads, and crime solvers of the world — rejoice!
Sherlock Holmes statue at Baker Street in London.
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On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the original Holmes stories, asking it to keep the fictional character under copyright, Reuters reported.
This 1930 photo shows Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author and creator of Sherlock Holmes.
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The appeal was the last stage in a case pitting Conan Doyle's estate against Leslie Klinger, a writer who wanted to produce a new series of stories featuring Holmes. Conan Doyle's estate wanted Klinger to pay a fee for permission to use the character.
Manuscript notes by author Arthur Conan Doyle from 1886 displayed at the Museum of London, October 16.
REUTERS STEFAN WERMUTH
The 7th Circuit Court ruled in June that Holmes-the-character entered the public domain at the same time as the first story written about him.
Timothy Long, the curator of the exhibition "Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived and Will Never Die," poses with a deerstalker hat and a smoking pipe at the Museum of London on October 16.
REUTERS STEFAN WERMUTH
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