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a14 people & arts
Tuesday 3 January 2023
2023 public domain debuts include last Sherlock Holmes work

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sher- and Tod Browning’s “Lon-
lock Holmes is finally free don After Midnight.”
to the American public in 1927 portended the silent
2023. film era’s end with the re-
The long-running contest- lease of the first “talkie” —
ed copyright dispute over a film with dialogue in it.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s That was “The Jazz Singer,”
tales of a whipsmart detec- the historic first feature-
tive — which has even en- length film with synchro-
snared Enola Holmes — will nized dialogue also notori-
finally come to an end as ous for Al Jolson’s black-
the 1927 copyrights expir- face performance.
ing Jan. 1 include Conan In addition to the Alan Cro-
Doyle’s last Sherlock Hol- sland-directed film, other
mes work. movies like “Wings” — di-
Alongside the short-story rected by William A. Well-
collection “The Case-Book man and the “outstanding
of Sherlock Holmes,” books production” winner at the
such as Virginia Woolf’s very first Oscars — and Fritz
“To The Lighthouse,” Er- Lang’s seminal science-fic-
nest Hemingway’s “Men tion classic “Metropolis” will
Without Women,” William enter the public domain.
Faulkner’s “Mosquitoes” A Museum of London employee poses for photographers next to an 1897 oil on canvas portrait Musical compositions —
and Agatha Christie’s “The of Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by illustrator Sidney Paget on display as part of the music and lyrics found
Big Four” — an Hercule the exhibition “Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived and Will Never Die” at the Museum of on sheet music, not the
Poirot mystery — will be- London in London, Oct. 16, 2014. sound recordings — on the
come public domain as Associated Press list include hits from Broad-
the calendar turns to 2023. layed opening them up for “For the vast majority— 2023.” way musicals like “Funny
Once a work enters the an additional 20 years. probably 99%—of works That long U.S. copyright pe- Face” and jazz standards
public domain it can legal- While many prominent from 1927, no copyright riod meant many works that from the likes of legends
ly be shared, performed, works on the list used those holder financially benefited would now become avail- like Louis Armstrong and
reused, repurposed or sam- extra two decades to from continued copyright. able have long since been Duke Ellington, in addition
pled without permission or earn their copyright hold- Yet they remained off lim- lost, because they were to Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ on
cost. ers good money, a Duke its, for no good reason,” not profitable to maintain the Ritz” and “(I Scream
The works from 1927 were University expert says the Jennifer Jenkins, director by the legal owners, but You Scream, We All Scream
originally supposed to be copyright protections also of Duke’s Center for the couldn’t be used by others. for) Ice Cream” by Howard
copyrighted for 75 years, applied to “all of the works Study of the Public Domain, On the Duke list are such Johnson, Billy Moll and Rob-
but the 1998 Copyright whose commercial viability wrote in a blog post her- “lost” films like Victor Flem- ert A. King.q
Term Extension Act de- had long subsided.” alding “Public Domain Day ing’s “The Way of All Flesh” ___

Jeremy Renner seriously injured while plowing snow in Nevada

RENO, Nevada (AP) — son involved in Sunday’s
“The Avengers” star Jer- accident, and the sheriff’s
emy Renner was seriously office said in a news re-
injured while plowing snow lease that it is investigat-
in Reno, Nevada, and is in ing. Renner plays Hawk-
critical condition. eye, a sharp-shooting
Authorities and the actor’s member of the superhero
representative haven’t Avengers squad in Mar-
said how the accident oc- vel’s sprawling movie and
curred, but the Washoe television universe.
County (Nevada) Sheriff’s He is a two-time acting
Office said late Sunday Oscar nominee, scor-
that Renner had to be ing back-to-back nods
flown by helicopter to a for “The Hurt Locker” and
hospital for treatment. “The Town.” Renner’s por-
Renner, 51, is in critical trayal of a bomb disposal
condition although he is specialist in Iraq in 2009’s
stable, the actor’s rep- “The Hurt Locker” helped
resentative said Sunday. turn him into a household
No further details on the name. “The Avengers” in
extent of Renner’s injuries Jeremy Renner poses for photographers upon arrival at the UK Fan Screening of the film 2012 cemented him as
were available. “Hawkeye,” in London, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. part of Marvel’s grand sto-
Renner was injured in an Associated Press rytelling ambitions, with his
area near Mt. Rose High- and south Reno. Renner Gazette Journal in 2019 has majestic scenery and character appearing in
way, a road linking Lake owns a home in Washoe that he chose the area it allowed him and his fam- several sequels and get-
Tahoe, which straddles the County, which includes because Reno was the ily to ski frequently. ting its own Disney+ series,
Nevada-California border, Reno, and told the Reno right-sized city for him, it Renner was the only per- “Hawkeye.”q