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4 November 2014Copyright

Final defeat for Doyle Estate in Sherlock Holmes case

The US Supreme Court has drawn a line under the long running Sherlock Holmes dispute after it declined to hear an appeal by the estate of the late author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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