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KLINGER v. CONAN DOYLE ESTATE, LTD.

No. 14-1128.

755 F.3d 496 (2014)

Leslie S. KLINGER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CONAN DOYLE ESTATE, LTD., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 16, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan L. Kirsch , Law Offices of Jonathan Kirsch, PC, Los Angeles, CA. John A. Leja , Scott M. Gilbert , Polsinelli PC, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Benjamin Allison , Sutin Thayer & Brown, Santa Fe, NM, William Frederick Zieske , Zieske Law-Fine Arts Legal, Woodstock, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before POSNER, FLAUM, and MANION, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Arthur Conan Doyle published his first Sherlock Holmes story in 1887 and his last in 1927. There were 56 stories in all, plus 4 novels. The final 10 stories were published between 1923 and 1927. As a result of statutory extensions of copyright protection culminating in the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act, the American copyrights on those final stories (copyrights owned by Doyle's estate, the appellant) will not expire until 95 years after...

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