Public Domain Shock: Sherlock Holmes Now Belongs to the World—But at What Cost?
Who doesn’t know the old white guy with the deerstalker hat and magnifying glass that can deduce your favorite breakfast cereal from the crumbs on your shoes? Sherlock Holmes first appeared in the Beeton’s Christmas Annual magazine in 1887, but with the passing of Holmes’s original author, Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes began showing up in…