![]() “Both plumb interesting aspects of Holmes’ character, both shed new light on this complex man. “I love the series, though frankly I like ‘Elementary’ even more,” Klinger wrote. What does Klinger think of the BBC’s updated version of the classic detective, “Sherlock”? Among Klinger’s other projects is another Holmes book, with Nancy Holder: “a big, coffee-table-type book on Sherlock Holmes, tentatively titled ‘Baker Street Chronicles,’ that will show the years from 1850 to 1940 in pictures and text, focusing on Holmes, Watson, Doyle, and the world around them,” he wrote.Īs for Holmes, Watson and Baker Street, they’re now free for unlicensed remixing. “In the Company of Sherlock” will be published - and available at most major retailers - in November 2014. We’ve been outraged, as have many others, and Judge Posner got that.” The cover for the Standard Ebooks edition of A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan The cover for the Standard Ebooks edition of The Sign of the Four, by Arthur. Klinger told the Times by email, “We were pleasantly surprised by the vehemence of his response, though his denunciation of the ‘business model’ of the estate was exactly what we’ve argued. The book’s promotion stated that it was the first new book that the Conan Doyle Estate had approved that wasn’t a parody of Sherlock Holmes. For it was enlisting those sellers in a boycott of a competitor of the estate, and boycotts of competitors violate the antitrust laws.” British author Anthony Horowitz’s Sherlock Holmes book, The House of Silk, was released in 2011. Later in his opinion, Posner wrote, “the estate was playing with fire in asking Amazon and other booksellers to cooperate with it in enforcing its nonexistent copyright claims against Klinger. “In effect he was a private attorney general, combating a disreputable business practice - a form of extortion - and he is seeking by the present motion not to obtain a reward but merely to avoid a loss.” ![]() only Klinger (so far as we know) resisted,” Posner wrote in his opinion. as the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey, and Dan Lin. “The Doyle estate’s business strategy is plain: charge a modest license fee for which there is no legal basis, in the hope that the ‘rational’ writer or publisher asked for the fee will pay it rather than incur a greater cost, in legal expenses, in challenging the legality of the demand. Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 period mystery action film starring Robert Downey Jr. Posner sharply criticized the business practices of the Conan Doyle estate, calling them “disreputable.” Observing the full details of a circumstance is the first step you need to take if you want to think like Sherlock Holmes. By default, you probably have a habit of seeing your surroundings without processing the basic information. Now, Posner has issued an opinion awarding Klinger more than $69,000 in legal fees (Klinger, an attorney, was respresented by Jonathan Kirsch both have contributed book reviews to the Los Angeles Times). Understand the difference between seeing and observing.
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