Sorry I haven't posted in about one month, but I have been taken out of my own mind and started school, school's going well but I also got into Doctor Who, Sherlock, The Avengers, Star Trek, The Lord of the Rings, and Firefly. So today I had an amazing day, filled with happy Sherlock thoughts. First I decided to wear my favorite t-shirt
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| My favorite tee-shirt says I am Sherlocked
The other amazing thing was my family friend who is England with her dad on a trip, went to Saint Bart's Hospital. Where Sherlock committed suicide, the telephone booth next to Saint Barts has been written on and practically vandalized by Sherlock fans, so here is a couple pictures my friend took (Thanks MB!)
First I wanted to share her pictures from Gloucester Cathedral.
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| anyone recognize these windows? |
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| this might help, my friend went to the filming location of Hogwarts |
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| Daniel (Harry) , Emma (Hermione) , Rupert (Ron) and Richard Harris (The First Dumbledore)'s autographs
I promised her pictures from Saint Barts would also be posted
    
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Any way as much as I wish this post could be filled with me fangirling and stuff, its not. It's actually a bit sad for me to write, so when my day went down, it was because I read an article that said:
Before Benedict Cumberbatch next dons his Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, the BBC may be obliged to start negotiating with an elderly Hungarian-born socialite.
Andrea Plunket claims that not only does she own the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle but also plans to start legal proceedings to prevent the Corporation making any more episodes of its successful Sherlock franchise.
Cumberbatch and fellow actor Martin Freeman, who plays Dr Watson, are scheduled to film a further series next year.
But Mrs Plunket is throwing down a legal gauntlet to the BBC.
She insists she retains the copyright to the last ten stories from the Conan Doyle oeuvre in the U.S. More crucially, she claims to have registered as her trademark all the leading characters in the Sherlock Holmes stories and accuses the BBC of breaching her trademark.
‘No one has asked permission to use my trademarks and I am confident that if and when I go to court I will be able to prevent the BBC making any more Sherlocks,’ she tells me from her home in New York. ‘That is my wish.’
Plunket, 73, the former mistress of Claus von Bulow, who was twice tried with the attempted murder of his heiress wife Sunny, was previously married to Sheldon Reynolds, the Hollywood producer for whom she purchased the U.S. copyright to Sherlock Holmes stories.
After they divorced in 1990, she fought a legal battle to maintain ownership of the copyrights.
The BBC’s Sherlock, a contemporary update of the Victorian tales, has sold in 180 territories, including the U.S. Mrs Plunket, who runs an upmarket inn in New York state, has reached agreement with Warner Brothers, which makes the Sherlock Holmes films directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jnr and Jude Law.
‘I love Guy Ritchie,’ Mrs Plunket tells me. ‘But I am not enamoured of the BBC. No one has made any approach to me and they have no right to use my trademarks.
‘In the absence of negotiation, I will be forced to go to court to prevent any more Sherlocks being made or appearing in the U.S.’
A BBC source said last night that there were no copyright problems with Sherlock in Britain, adding: ‘Mrs Plunket’s contentions will be looked at.’
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2426171/RICHARD-KAY-U-S-threat-kill-BBCs-Sherlock.html for further reading)
So I researched further and this lady bought the copyright in the 1950's according to the copyright laws from 1901 - 1976 she only owned it for 28 years, she owned it until 1978 at the least, and it doesn't seem to me like she renewed the rights to Sherlock Holmes. So she doesn't have the rights to take the series from 1,000,000's of fans and cause 1,000's of people to lose their jobs, sure the well known actors such as Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman will be fine, but what about the less known actors, such as Jonathan Aris, who plays Anderson. Or Louise Breaeley who plays Molly, I have personally never seen either of those two in anything except for Sherlock.
