WASHINGTON (AP) — Sherlock Holmes is finally free to the American public in 2023. The long-running contested copyright dispute over Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales of a whipsmart detective — which has ...

Ty Roush is a breaking news reporter based in New York City. Copyrights on works from 1927, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s short-story collection The Case-Book of ...

In a 2020 lawsuit, Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate argued that Enola Holmes, a book series and Netflix adaptation that follows Sherlock Holmes’ brilliant teenage sister, violated copyright laws. Doyle, of ...

A Sherlock Holmes collection, the first film to win the Oscars’ top prize and a classic ditty by Irving Berlin are among the thousands of books, films and musical compositions entering the US public ...

Every new year a crop of books, music and films become part of the public domain in the U.S. Jennifer Jenkins of Duke University shares a few of the works from 1927 coming our way. On Sunday, a new ...

Each year on January 1, all 95-year-old copyrights expire and a multitude of works enter the public domain, opening them up for free adaptation and interpretation. It’s important to note that while ...

Requests to ban books at US public schools and libraries surged to a 21-year record in 2022, according to data from the American Library Association. Last year, the ALA recorded 1,050 requests to ...

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