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• Zetice 4y ago
  Are you aware of how that case resolved?
  • nvader 4y ago
    My recollection was that they reached a settlement, but I don't know for how much. https://abbasmedialaw.com/posts/copyright-netflix-reaches-settlement-on-enola-holmes-sherlock-lawsuit/ https://abbasmedialaw.com/posts/copyright-netflix-reaches-se... I found this chart interesting, and unexpectedly complicated: https://www.belmont.edu/legal/pdf/Public-Domain-Chart.pdf https://www.belmont.edu/legal/pdf/Public-Domain-Chart.pdf Based on that I think a heuristic of 100 years is broadly correct.
    • Zetice 4y ago
      No, it’s not broadly correct, because “when does copyright expire” has no relevance to “setting back the concept of human knowledge”. Human knowledge remains entirely unaffected by this ruling.