Sherlock Holmes among thousands of books, movies, music compositions entering public domain in 2023 – Newshub

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Statue of Sherlock Holmes in silhouette holding a pipe, with a backdrop of historic buildings and a cloudy sky, now recognized as public domain as of 2023.

Among the most famous of this year’s crop are “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes,” which decisively ends a decades-long saga of Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate attempting to curb use of the character by other authors, the wartime romance “Wings” and Berlin’s “Puttin’ On the Ritz.”

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