Lawsuit over 'warmer' Sherlock depicted in Enola Holmes dismissed

Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate had sued makers of Enola Holmes for showing a humane side to the detective only visible in stories still protected under US law

The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle and Netflix have agreed to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the author’s estate, which alleged that the film Enola Holmes infringed copyright by depicting a warmer and more emotional version of Sherlock Holmes.

Conan Doyle died in 1930, and while the majority of his writing is in the public domain, 10 of his stories about the famous detective remain under copyright in the US. In the UK, where copyright lasts for 70 years after an author’s death, all Holmes stories are out of copyright.

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