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I'm assuming one can now make movies/television/video games with those characters without paying any sort of royalty.

• ZeroMinx 13y ago
  [serious] Has the BBC had to pay royalties for making/showing their Sherlock series? In that case, to whom? The person who created these fictional characters died over 70 years ago.
  • rwbt 13y ago
    I believe the Copyrights for Sherlock Holmes expired in year 2000 and in public domain since then. So I don't think BBC needed to license it from the estate, at least in the UK.
  • colkassad 13y ago
    Both TV shows and the movie studio entered into a licensing agreement with the Conan Doyle estate, it's all in the article.
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