WASHINGTON (AP) — Sherlock Holmes is finally free for American audiences in 2023.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sherlock Holmes is finally free for American audiences in 2023.
The most long-running copyright dispute over Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories about a clever detective – the one that implicates Enola Holmes – would finally come to an end with the 1927 copyright expiring on January 1, including The Last of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle.
Besides the collection of short stories “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”, books such as Virginia Woolf’s “At the Lighthouse”, Ernest Hemingway’s “Men without Women”, Guillaume Faulkner’s “Mosquitoes” and Agatha Christie’s “The Big Four” – a mystery Hercule Poirot – will become public domain when the timeline shifts to 2023.
Once a work is in the public domain, it may legally be shared, performed, reused, forwarded, or sampled without permission or cost. The 1927 works were originally supposed to be copyrighted for 75 years, but the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 delayed their opening by another 20 years.
While many of the notable works on the list have used bonus contracts to make money for copyright holders, a Duke University expert says copyright protection also applies to “all works whose commercial viability has long since declined.”
“For the vast majority—probably 99%—of the 1927 works, no copyright owner benefited financially from copyright preservation. Yet they are still banned, without good reason,” said Jennifer Jenkins, director of the Duke Study Center. Of the year for the campaign, she wrote in a blog post announcing it “Public King’s Day 2023”.
The long period of copyright in the United States meant that many works would now be available long lost, since it was unprofitable to keep them by the legal owners, but not be used by others. Duke’s list includes “lost” films such as Victor Fleming’s “The Way of All Flesh” and Todd Browning’s “London After Midnight.”
1927 marked the end of the silent film era with the release of the first “talkie” – a film with dialogue. “Jazz Singer” was the first landmark feature with synchronized dialogue, as famous as Al Jolson’s Blackface performance.
In addition to the film directed by Alan Crosland, there are other films such as “Wings” – directed by William A. Weiner’s “Outstanding Production” at the 1st Academy Awards – and the poignant sci-fi action of Fritz Lang’s classic “Metropolis.” will enter the public domain.
Musical scores—the music and lyrics from the recordings, not the audio recordings—are included in the Broadway musical’s setlist. Such as “Funny Face” by jazz legends like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, as well as Irving Berlin’s “Putin’ on the Ritz” and “I Shout You Shout, We All Shout for) Ice Cream” by Howard Johnson, Billy Moll and Robert A. . king.
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Duke’s Center for the Public Domain highlights great books, films, and music compositions that have entered the public domain — just a fraction of the thousands slated for release in 2023.
books
– “Gangs of New York” by Herbert Asprey (original version)
– “Death to the Archbishop,” by Willa Cather
The Big Four, Agatha Christie
– “The Tower’s Treasure,” the first Hardy Boys mystery from the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon
The Sherlock Holmes Case Book by Arthur Conan Doyle
– “Cooper Sun” by Count Cullen
– “The Mosquitoes” by William Faulkner
– “Men Without Women” by Ernest Hemingway
– “Der Steppenwolf” by Hermann Hesse (in German)
– “America” by Franz Kafka (in German)
– “Now We Are Six” by A.A. Milne with illustrations by E.H. Shepherd
– “Time Regained” by Marcel Proust (in French)
– “The Sleep of Twilight” by Edith Wharton
– “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” by Thornton Wilder
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Movies
Seventh Heaven, directed by Frank Borzage
The Battle of the Century, a Laurel and Hardy film directed by Clyde Brockman
– “Little Brother” Ted Wilde
The Jazz Singer, directed by Alan Crosland
The Lodger: A Tale of London Mists, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang
– “Sunrise” by FW Murnau
The Fountainhead, directed by John Ford
Wings, directed by William A. Wellman
music tracks
– “Back Water Blues”, “Preaching the Blues” and “Foolish Man Blues” (Bessie Smith)
– “The Best Things in Life Are Free,” from the musical “Good News” (George Jared “Buddy” DeSilva, Lou Brown, Ray Henderson)
– “Billy Goat Stomp”, “Hyena Stomp”, and “Jungle Blues” (Ferdinand Joseph Morton)
– “Black and Tan Fantasy” and “East St. Louis Toodle-O” (Bob Miley, Duke Ellington)
– “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” and “Ol’ Man River” from the musical “Show Boat” (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern)
– “Diane” (Ernoud Raab, Le Pollac)
– “Funny Face” and “S Wonderful” from the play “Funny Face” (Ira and George Gershwin)
– “(I scream, you scream, we all scream for) ice cream” (Howard Johnson, Billy Mole, Robert A. King)
– “Mississippi Mud” (Harry Paris, James Cavanaugh)
– “My Blue Heaven” (George Whiting, Walter Donaldson)
– “Potato Head Blues” and “Gully Low Blues” (Louis Armstrong)
– “Putin at the Ritz” (Irving Berlin)
– “Rusty Bale Blues,” “Dirty Water Blues,” and “Southin’ Stomp Drink” (Thomas Waller)
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