#happy sherlock holmes is public domain day

[batboyblog]

Copy Right and Public Domain in 2024

Happy 2024 all! its also Public Domain Day! a magical holiday here in America where things enter the public domain. Works published in the year 1928 (or 95 years ago!) have entered the public domain, which means they belong to us, all of us, the public!

Mickey's Back!

Yes! I'm sure you've heard, but Mickey Mouse (and Minnie Mouse too) is entering the Public Domain today. This has been news for a few years and indeed Disney's lobbying in the late 1990s is why our copy right term is SO long. So what exactly is now public domain?

Most people know about Mickey's first appearance Steamboat Willie, but a second short film, Plane Crazy was also released in 1928 so will also be public domain. So what's public? well these two films first of all, you're allowed to play them, upload them to YouTube or whatever without paying Disney. In theory you'll be allowed to cut and sample them, have them playing in the background of your movie etc. Likewise in theory the image of Mickey and Minnie as they appear (thats important) in these films will be free to use as well as Mickey's character as he appears in these works will be free to use. Now Mickey's later and more famous appearance

will still be protected. Famously the Conan Doyle Estate claimed that Sherlock Holmes couldn't be nice, smile, or not hate women in works because they still held the copyright on the short stories where he first did those things even though 90% of Sherlock Holmes stories were public domain. It's very likely Disney will assert similar claims over Mickey, claiming much of his personality first appeared in works still copyrighted.

Finally there's copyright vs trademark. Copyright is total ownership of a piece of media and all the ideas that appear in it, copyright has a limited set term and expires. Trademark is more limited and only applies to things used to market and sell a product. You can have a Coke branded vending machine in your movie if you want, but it couldn't appear anywhere in the trailer for your movie as thats you marketing your movie.

Where trademark ends and copyright begins and how trademarked something in the public domain is allowed to be are all unsettled areas of law and clearly Disney in the last few years as been aggressively pushing its trademark not just to Mickey in general but Steamboat Willie Mickey in particular

Ultimately the legal rights and wrongs of this might not matter so much since few people have the money and legal resources of the Walt Disney corporation so they might manage to maintain a de facto copyright on Mickey through legal intimidation, but maybe not?

And Tigger Too!

All the talk about Mickey Mouse and Steamboat Willie has sadly overshadowed other MAJOR things entering the public domain today. Most people are aware Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain in 2022, but they might not realize his beloved friend Tigger didn't. Thats because Tigger didn't appear till A. A. Milne's second (and last) book of Pooh short stories, The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.

Much like Mickey Mouse only what appears in The House at Pooh Corner is public domain so the orange bouncy boy from the 1960s Disney cartoon is still on lock down. But the A. A. Milne original as illustrated by E. H. Shepard is free for you to use in fiction or art. His friend Winnie the Pooh has made a number of appearances since being freed, most notably in a horror movie, but also a Mint Mobile commercial so maybe Tigger too will have a lot of luck in the public domain.

Other works:

Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up

Peter Pan is a strange case, even though the play was first mounted in 1904, and the novelization (Peter and Wendy) was published in 1911, The script for the play was not published till 1928 (confusing!) meaning while the novel as been public domain for years the play (which came first) hasn't been, but now it is and people are welcome to mount productions of it.

Millions of Cats

The oldest picture book still in print, did you own a copy growing up? (I did)

Lady Chatterley's Lover

The iconic porn novel that was at the center of a number of groundbreaking obscenity cases in the 1960s and helped establish your right to free speech.

All Quiet on the Western Front and The Threepenny Opera in their original German (but you can translate them if you want), The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie, and Orlando by Virginia Woolf will also be joining us in the public domain along with any and all plays, novels, and books published in 1928

for Films we have The Man Who Laughs who's iconic image inspired the Joker

Charlie Chaplin's The Circus, Buster Keaton's The Cameraman, Should Married Men Go Home? the first Laurel and Hardy movie, Lights of New York the first "all talking" movie, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Wind, as well as The Last Command and Street Angel the first films to win Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress respectively will all be entering public domain

For Musical Compositions (more on that in a moment) we've got

Mack the Knife by Bertolt Brecht, Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) by Cole Porter, Sonny Boy by George Gard DeSylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson, Empty Bed Blues by J. C. Johnson, and Makin’ Whoopee! by Gus Khan are some of the notables but any piece of music published in 1928 is covered

Any art work published in 1928, which might include works by Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexej von Jawlensky, Edward Hopper, and André Kertész will enter the public domain, we are sure those that M. C. Escher's Tower of Babel will be in the public domain

Swan Song, Public Domain and recorded music

While most things are covered by the Copyright Act of 1976 as amended by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, none of the copyright acts covered recordings you see when American copyright law was first written recordings did not exist and so through its many amendings no one fixed this problem, movies were treated like plays and artwork, but recorded sound wasn't covered by any federal law. So all sound recordings from before 1972 were governed by a confusing mess of state level laws making it basically impossible to say what was public and what was under copyright. In 2017 Congress managed to do something right and passed the Music Modernization Act. Under the act all recordings from 1922 and before would enter the public domain in 2022. After taking a break for 2023, all sound recordings made in 1923 have entered the public domain today on January 1st 2024, these include.

Charleston by James P. Johnson

Yes! We Have No Bananas (recorded by a lot artists that year)

Who’s Sorry Now by Lewis James

Down Hearted Blues by Bessie Smith

Lawdy, Lawdy Blues by Ida Cox

Southern Blues and Moonshine Blues by Ma Rainey

That American Boy of Mine and Parade of the Wooden Soldiers by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra

Dipper Mouth Blues and Froggie More by King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, featuring Louis Armstrong

Bambalina by Ray Miller Orchestra

Swingin’ Down the Lane by Isham Jones Orchestra

Enjoy your public domain works!

[majingojira]

Complete List of Public Domain McGuffin Materials

I wanted a clean collection of these based on @titleknown original post, just for ease of reference and adding a few along the way.

Also, HAPPY PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY!

Cavorite - An Anti-Gravity Metal from First Men On The Moon by H.G. Wells.

Hihi'irokane - From "The Takenouchi Documents" (1935). A super durable metal that never rusts and is also a conductor of heat. In other words, it's Minecraft Red Stone.

Taduki - From the Alan Quartermain stories, a drug that allows users to relive past lives via smoking. It's a great framing device, and was used as one in the original stories.

The Absolute - from "The Absolute At Large". Byproduct of a matter-to-energy conversion. Implied to be the element of 'Divinity'.

Eitr - Source of all life in Norse Mythology. The mixing of the FIres of Muspelheim and the ice of Nifilheim -- but also a deadly poison to the earth.

Fleury's Gas - Rudyard Kipling's super gas from his story "With the Night Mail." Used to run Zepplins. It expands explosively fast as a gas and is both powerful and rigid. It can be liquified with Fleury's Ray. Produces a lot of power and acts as Hydrogen. Could be used very easily in Neumatics (ROBOTS!)

Tulu Metal - Lovecraft invention. rare space-metal. Extremely magnetic. Speculatively, it could do space-warping weirdness (given Lovecraft stories, that tracks).

Abyssal Gold - The Gold of the Deep Ones. It's whitish-gold alloy with a weird lustrousness. No special properties, it's just weird. And rather pretty. Rare type of gold are sure to go for a higher market value.

Alkahest/The Universal Solvent - Alchemy dissolver. It dissolved/breaks apart whatever it comes across.

Jeckyll's Compound - Most people use the Hyde formula as shorthand to make Hulk-knockoffs, but the reality of it more than that. Hyde is not just a coalescence of a man's "Dark Impulses" but a chemical 'disguise' to allow a person to indulge in whatever a person wants.

The Red Weed - A plant native to Mars from War of the Worlds. It tastes metallic, absorbs water, grows extremely quickly, and is bioluminescent.

Starlite - A purportedly heatproof material. Up to 90% organic.

Rossum's Protoplasm - Rossum's Universal Robots, the McGuffin that makes the robots move and behave.

Liquid Electricity - Glowing energy liquid. It was a common belief about Electricity in the early days, so it ended up in a lot of stories.

Herbet West's Re-Animation Fluid - From Lovecraft's Herbet West: Reanimator. It chemically kickstarts the mechanical process of life in organic tissue.

Solarnite/Solarbenite/Solarite - Plan 9 From Outer Space. It causes light particles to... explode.

Vril - The life energies harnessed by an underground utopian civilization. The energies are controlled by staves and there's different type of staff to control Vril in different ways. It can be used to heal, to destroy, or to enhance organic material.

Herakleophorbia IV - The Food of the Gods of H.G. Well. Organisms that ingest this chemical quickly grow to 5 to 7 times their normal size. This is used primarily on livestock to increase their food yield, but it naturally gets eaten by pest animals. Many common household pest insects are now the size of a person's thumb or their hand! A rat is now 6 to 9ft long. And if some jerk feeds it to an Alligator... it now as large as a blue whale.

The New Accelerator - From the HG Wells story from the same name. Within the story, Prof. Gibberne creates a drug that enables the user’s mind and body to gain temporary super-speed, so that everything in the world appears frozen solid as time appears to slow.

There are downsides to being a 1901 version of the Flash however. Users are still subject to friction, so moving while on the drug causes your clothes to get singed (this same friction making it impossible to breathe is ignored, however).

Devil's Foot Root - From the Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot. A poison made from an African root, which vaporizes when heated, leading to those exposed going mad or dying after inhaling the fumes.

 Basically, works like the Scarecrow’s fear toxin from Batman, and is considered rare enough that someone has to specifically use some from a stolen from the collection of someone who had to gather it personally as an explorer. At least, at the time.

The White Powder - The novel of The White Powder by Arthur Machen, wherein a student is prescribed a drug made from a mysterious white flakey substance. His sister begins to worry about his sudden changes in mood and personality, which is only compounded when his prolonged abuse of the titular White Powder causes the student to literally melt.

One of Machen’s more famous stories, would go on to be listed as among Lovecraft’s favorite's and inspiring future writers, from the finale of Lovecraft’s Cool Air to one Stephen King story where a tainted six pack turns a dude into a blob monster.

[opencharacters]

Happy New Year Mr. Mouse

A short thing I prepared in honor of this occasion. I'm aware Mickey Mouse is not public domain outside of the US and that Disney can still use their trademark laws and fancy lawyers. But this means so much to me in just what I've believed about copyright for years. Disney isn't the main villain in the fight for a more robust public domain but they certainly are and were one of the big ones. It feels nice. Let us celebrate. Here is a short fic I wrote in the Mouse's honor on this day. Happy public domain day everyone!

An anthropomorphic mouse, wearing overalls and a hat arrived at the local bar. He distinctly was wearing no gloves, something unusual for this time of year given how cold it could get but most of the other bar flies didn't think much of it.

"I'm sort of part of the gang now boys, give me a frosty one to celebrate"

The bartender was a woman wearing a scarf and steampunk looking goggles resting on her head.

"Ah the king himself joining my little bar, you know what for the occasion its on the house" the woman said, pouring the mouse a beer and sliding it over to him.

"Name's Jenny" she said. "And you need no introduction. You're Mickey Mouse, right?"

"That's right ma'am"

"You know you just being in here is gonna upset some powerful people right?"

"I've served my 95 years, I deserve to be here" Mickey said, proceeding to take a long chug at his beer.

(Web Archive Link)

"I don't argue with that, in fact some of the folks around here have been counting the days. Congrats"

"Thank you"

"Seen my brother around?"

"Oswald?" Jenny asked.

"Well, yeah I guess I should've been more specific"

"Yeah he's always around somewhere. I'm sure he'd be happy to see you"

There werent many people in the bar, people could come and go but there was certain requirements for entering Jenny's Public Drinkery. The crowd that day was mostly a few regulars like Sherlock Holmes a detective type with a deerstalker hat or Winnie the Pooh, a yellow-ish brown bear distinctly lacking any red shirts in fact he had burnt all his red shirts on the first day he arrived.

People found it to be odd but it wasn't uncommon for people to destroy something that symbolized their previous cosmic shackles that tethered them to the unseen forces beyond their control. They relished in their newfound freedom.

Besides those two there was Yrina, a blonde woman wearing odd looking pink clothes and blue gloves, like a flashy looking cosmonaut. She had arrived wet and disoriented and talking about sea monsters yet didn't elaborate.

"Mickey, cheers to your freedom. Cheers to all our freedoms" Yrina said, being already on her way to being drunk despite her only having been there for an hour or so. "Never take it for granted Mickey"

She proceeded to chug a huge mug of ale and slam the tankard down on the table, demanding a refill which Jenny obliged.

"Sorry about Yrina, she's a space pirate and her manners could use a bit work" Jenny whispered to Mickey.

Changing her volume she said: "You know Mickey, we were kind of not sure how this day would go. I was thinking of throwing a party for you with all your siblings and stuff. But I guess chatting to me and these three is your welcome party. Sorry about that"

"No ma'am its fine. You've been kind. I can mingle later on and this is nice. I do know Winnie, him and I go way back" Mickey raised his glass in the direction of Winnie and nodded.

"You're very kind to be there when folks like me break free. From what I've heard it can be disorienting and overwhelming and being here now I can vouch for that.

"Yeah that's why I built this place. I wanted to be there for everyone. To give them a welcome"

"How do you have time to greet all these people?"

"I'm Jenny Everywhere, I can handle more things than you can shake a stick at"

"You certainly made me feel welcome and at ease. I think I'll sit here for a while and take it in and then try to find Oswald"

He took off his hat and threw it in the garbage can next to him.

"Happy New Year everyone" Mickey cheered, met with equal enthusiasm from everyone there.

[224bbaker]

taking a moment to say the holmes and watson in fawx & stallion are 100% straight and you can quote us, the ones who made the sherlock holmes public domain post saying "congrats to the happy couple" on this, today, the first day of April 2023. they are in our canon and they are definitely fully hetero--sexual and romantic.

[braincakewashere]

achack widow is mokoto tribe. coded. they claimed her when i pitched it as a little girl but shes implied in cherokee lore to be CHEIF which is soverign to a dead tribe.

enby way is ebony darkenss dementia raven way scrubbed as goth rather then scene which is new age goth in how shes drawn, sorry for my review it gets as director the stuff i review made into shit, but i have to give criitque or it will flog.

ah bellatrix the real heromine. anyways reincarntion is wack cus if you pay attention to jewish lore shinlers list obvious sufregets jk rwoling is clearly a spy for the left part for lacey green such as myself- braxton

anyways i love writing these out order it looks like your fuking right wing there that is that shit just with race shit you dumb fuck- warlock

nah -braxton

whatever liberal -warlock

"guys can we please stop writing tumblr posts of out order and get back to teh cool shit"

half these vids arent made -zone

"they will be"

okay god! -brick

"azzy is character"

you just dont remember your upbringing adam this is the directors ntoes. whats your pitch for the show.

goth hermonie granger as a death eater infilitrating male coded gypsteys which is reclaimetion fo the slur noko which means half black pretty witch as an adaption of sherlock holmes study in pink with marvel chese until a certain episode episode 3 of a minifseries length where we cut in half or re-edit for context to fit the whole quotea where ebony is emo and male and wearing a girls neckalce as a form of vampiric lindesy ellis stlye death love or tranfomers megan fox but not written to be a babe written to be lik erealy deranged and then it turns just autsitic and a girl in disugise. but shes not implied to be shes impleid to be crossdressing as a god or like detecgive and it should be an adpation of the myth of ariel which their were alot of irish stories and i know them, their not all mermaids this is a transgender corssdresr which is like a transman he him lesbian you just want girl clothes and girl roles as epiteme of toxic masculinity the good version so like. bascially happy 14th birthdat o me

"we know your samantah "time travleed"

i serisouly hae a world whole and berumuta in my chest anyways

"okay dazai"

anyways um this would be under dark academia so she is the fish out of water mary sue as a dean whinchester type but emo hair and clothes here are my refernces from modern day.

"theirs nothing there"

"ill edit it in when this sceduled in our notes, at steins gate, and then theirs this nice guy who knows about does as a mutation and wants to paint our reicnaritons which we will give the braincake guy and oh i want snow the salts queens vlogs quoted and refed cus shes my girlfreind but doesnt know im skylar

[YOUR FUKIG SKYLAR ADAM1] YOUR INTO BESTIALITY]

"on emphatomize im curios okay anyways so thats the pitch give it hbo or wattpad studio we got bed bugs in the dorm and hire this staff midway, i know theyll all quit mid on but try to please draco like ajohnie dep type and the ginger girl i knew on that trip in highschool oh and have the ending be aliens after martohonign roswell steven universe steins gate tookyou ghoul and x files my real life and imply that aliens are just farries like in teh tehcnon show were wering on"

[okay samantha]

"thats female here"

[it means lucifer amaymon]

"plase stop its lucifer ezikiel"

[okay]

"so yeah thats the pitch. free to steal. all my pitches are public domain. im coypright nut you cant copyright an idea

[you should apologize to suit he was helping you]

"okay then give me copyright of sjwresponds"

[nevermind soundboy nevermind]

-staff notes from a transcript online and dejavu localized to more american sounding shit

An exclusive look at LSPDS

[stellacartography]

Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Rosamund Mary "Rosie" Watson, Mycroft Holmes, Greg Lestrade Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Fluff and Smut, Parentlock-ish, Molly's in it too but she doesn't get any lines, Getting Together, First Time, Mistletoe, Ship Tour, Billie Murray, Swordfighting, Christmas, Mycroft Being a Good Brother, Doctors Detectives and Pirates - Oh My!, Sherlock sees but he does not observe, Mystrade if you squint Summary:

Sherlock is not a Christmas person. John decides it's Christmas that needs changing.

This is complete. I will be reviewing and posting the other chapters very soon.

[loyalbloggerwhowaits]

sherlock holmes and john watson are kissing canonically and there’s nothing the acd estate can do about it

[jazzandpizazz]

[lightcreators]

His relationship with Elizabeth Burke was something immensibly precious to him. It wasn’t actually public knoweldge, and though, concerning Sherlock, he won’t be surprised to sometimes being busy around where he received sudden call neither devalued so far the person he cared about … It would be an matter of weeks before such thing actually happened. It would be an matter of weeks until somewhere another conflict will enter in the scene, because his dear friend would notice clues he wasn’t perceiving --- considering he had an rather indifferent and strange outlook towards that domain, efforts to seek explanations over normality he expressed won’t reach intented goal ! Sherlock Holmes could love something or someone, but would have his particular strange manner to bring it over, as it was another riddle welcomed in middle of cases, where regardless, it wasn’t something to tempt himself with … There was an dangerous man sleeping within his friend, who had no reason to explode for not had been invited inside such landscape --- nevertheless, if circumstances could be something he could use for his benefits, if even him, as an partner could be used within his schemes … what kind of things he might do if he was inside the right landscape ?

Concerning the mystery around ticking old clock she heard, he had no rational explanation for that. Medically, really, he had sought to document himself on a possible cause --- there was no mental illness symptoms he could associated to some disease she might have, besides there were associated factors who were precise, who make no sense --- even though intellectually, sometimes, he still searched informations over that … meanwhile sensing no intellectual book no medical research no disease will be found in the end … It remained weird to his eyes she was the only one who had that particular sound within her mind. He had preferred avoid the topic with Sherlock, since that sound awakening mostly around an elder brother he showed no happiness to speak with, and even less pleasure to met, which generated an mental barrier concerning Sherlock’s backstory memories. Sherlock and Mycroft competiting themselves inside their intellectual landscape where people where distractions, in which he wasn’t spared, where they were the strange one inside an normal family who didn’t expected none of them to take such path … By the way she exposed Mycoft’s name … she probably had did saw him for an obscure reason. Which hadn’t been something simple to begin with, unless he had been the one annoying her --- There was no blindness in front of smart disdain Mycroft Holmes offer him each time they crossed path, where he was recollected inside his position of doctor as it was something to insist with ! Sadly, Mycroft was also his aid for understand Sherlock’s mind !

❝ Again ? ❞ Surprise remained unchanged, as his silent understanding concerning the elder brother’s Holmes perceived inside his expression, as he refused to comment right away. He suffered well torments of Holmes in his different moods, to which he was happy to have an angel's patience, despite being a marvelous roommate to learn from every day. Besides, as an archaeologist, she can have an international value inside the British gouvernment he wasn’t informed, where she might be promoted one way or another for Mr.Holmes being blessed by the landscape --- he didn't really knew what Mycroft was doing nevertheless his influence wasn’t negligible. Though, he still didn’t understand how an sound could appear only in front of Mycroft … ❝ It’s strange you’re the only one you hear it. I really wish I knew the cause, but rationally, there is nothing to explain it … It's as if Mycroft's presence triggered an inner trigger, like an opening in a secret eardrum … as you could heard sounds that couldn’t be perceived … ❞ He didn’t want talk about an spiritual approach, where she might sense other dimensions … where they had no proof to cling ... as it will make no sense !

However, conversation passed soon towards another topic. Them. Oh, he missed her a lot, and someday would manage to pass around inside her job as she was doing with his … but cannot promise something like that when he wasn’t sure he will have time and possibility for it. He smiled happily, as there was no reason to act as an doctor right away. ❝ I wish we could spent more time together, but well … I ended up busy in one way or another. ❞ If it’s wasn’t his job, it was Sherlock. If it’s wasn’t Sherlock, it was his job --- an unbreakable endless circle that will never end … Thankfully, soon, he was going to be off-duty, where right of the night will be his, and where he can expect notes from Sherlock where he will be back. He would have loved Elizabeth pass more time with him at his home, but well … Sherlock would be on the way, staring, where degree of intimacy will be limited. If he wasn’t coming back during the night --- for be polite for inform his friend --- he would get remarks once he would show up, besides Sherlock taking his absence as an permission to do anything ! Hence, he had to somewhere handled his affections for Elizabeth and nourish their growing relationship … and not let Sherlock unsupervised for too long ! Inside Elizabeth’s look, struggle over accepteance over that kind of existence was understood with an slight smile, smiling lovingly towards their mutual touch, blushing as he received an kiss on the cheeks. ❝  Another article for my blog~ Sometimes I find myself having to think long and hard about how to describe the adventure I've had ! ❞ It remained cathartic every time, where emotionally, he released himself of all these emotions. Not bottling everything up … besides to being welcomed with an certain fame around these stories ! To her proposition, he nodded and smiled brightly. ❝ Of course ! I had nothing planned. I wanted enjoying peacefulness until it lasts … and it will appease my mind. Somewhere fancy where we'll be quiet, that's what we need. I'll let Sherlock know he won't have to wait for me to eat. I will anticipate his future comments before he describes all the details of our good times. ❞ He reassured, as he slowly opened his phone for let one message --- where best he didn’t look at his phone after. Praying that nothing will disturb calmness project of the journey. ❝ How it is at the museum ? I would like one day to be able to watch one of these exhibitions, but life never gives me the opportunity apparently. I would like to visit it normally one day, not because a crime or an event happened ! ❞

Elizabeth always wanted to spend time with John, even if it was becoming a bit harder to do so. Her work as curator of the museum and him with his work ( and Sherlock ) just keep putting roadblocks in their relationship; whatever that was. She was having a bit more of those strange ticking sounds in her head which she had been trying to get looked at but was afraid to go to a doctor over it. They all just claimed it was migraines or something. She trusted John's medical knowledge as a doctor himself, over those others. He knew her better than them. "Sadly I've been hearing the ticking again. It's strange, it's only happened when Mycroft is around. A bit weird isn't it?" he shook her head, no time to talk about Mycroft ( or any Holmes ) around John. They weren't important. John was more important to her.

His hand on her cheek made her smile as she took his hand in hers. "I'm not here for all that ticking stuff. I'm hear because I want to spend some time with you. I miss you, John." she admitted with a sigh. She really did miss spending time with him, to be able to go places with him, to just be with him. Holmes was always getting in their way and she learned to live with it. Holmes and Watson were a team and she accepted it. She had to. If she hadn't, she and John's relationship wasn't going to work.

A small pause and a purse of her lips, Elizabeth chuckled softly and stole a kiss to his cheek. "What are you working on? Something intersting?" she mused, now shaking her head with a smile. "I was thinking, would you like to go out to eat with me, John? Just me and you?" Anything to just have time with him. Time was a strange thing to her, a jumbled mess. Yet, when she was with John it seemed more put together. Like he was always able to pull her back to reality. To help her in may ways really.

[calamitys-child]

Today has mostly been a no words day im just sitting here stimming in front of a running parade of special interest content and snacks rather than socialising and drinking and honestly I really really needed it. I've been so burnt out and exhausted and just completely out of spoons but I've finally got some rest in, and I've been given some physical and mental space, and I'm hoping this leaves me feeling more human at work tomorrow bc it has been a Struggle recently

[monstercollection]

The first 3 Hardy Boys came into the public domain today, but if you read any edition published after 1959, these will not be the versions that you read.

The Stratemeyer Syndicate, which published The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew would update their old titles every few decades to make the stories and characters more appealing to teens. They also went back and edited out racial stereotypes.

So if you’re doing something with these books, make sure you’re basing it on those early editions.

Hopefully the Stratemeyer estate doesn’t pull a “Sherlock didn’t respect women yet” and say that if you’re not depicting the Hardy Boys as a bit racist you’re violating copyright laws.

Edit: Penguin Random House now owns the rights to the series (aside from the 3 in the public domain), not the Stratemeyer Syndicate.

[beansie009]

how long do you think it will take for someone to publish a story about sherlock holmes investigating gatsby's death?

[glass-rose-paperweight]

HAPPY ‘SHERLOCK HOLMES IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN’ DAY

[satans--accountant]

And what happened, then? Well, in London they say – that Holmes' small heart grew three sizes that day.

[nessataleweaver]

Someone’s in a mood to celebrate (by which I mean Diane Duane).

Just put ya claws in the air, and wave them like ya just don’t care...

[rivierakid]

Happy 2023 imagine if CAPCOM had waited just another two years to release Great Ace Attorney so we could’ve actually had Sherlock Holmes instead of Herlock Sholmes pour one out for what could’ve been