The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle has been asked to make legal payments of an author who was successful in challenging their copyright.
Leslie Klinger brought the estate in court after being informed of paying a licensing cost for crafting new stories based from Doyle’s fictional characters.
An Appeals Court ruled that the copyright has long expired and indicating the estate to be notorious in levying costs.
It demanded the state to make a payment to Klinger at $30,679.00.
The figure doesn’t involve the $39,000.00 Klinger paid in legal fees in the district court before his fruitful appeal, in which he filed for a separate petition.
The court also brought up the matter with the estate’s negotiations with book retailers, indicating it was playing dangerously by having Amazon and other booksellers to collaborate in deploying non-existing copyright entitlements against Klinger.
Klinger, a widely known authority on Sherlock Holmes, gave more than $5,000 worth of licensing fee for publishing “A Study of Sherlock: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon,” three years ago.
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