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Conan Doyle Estates Ltd vs Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate[edit]

Two different branches of Doyle decendants continue to claim rights to his legacy.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate -- https://www.arthurconandoyle.com/copyrights.html -- recounts in some detail their perceived rights and the different branches of litigation.

Conan Doyle Estates Ltd -- https://conandoyleestate.com -- avoids mention of disputes, implies that they are the appropriate agent, and has some lucrative contracts on display.

Both are working to better establish themselves before all of the Doyle works are in the public domain. Doyle Estates Ltd lost a lawsuit with Leslie Klinger, and is presently is suing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate.

I raise this because multple mention of the Doyle estate, such as under Sherlock Holmes pastiche, is ambiguous.

GeeBee60 (talk) 16:41, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

What Does Samoa Have to Do with This?[edit]

"Robert Louis Stevenson was able, even in faraway Samoa, to recognise the strong similarity between Joseph Bell and Sherlock Holmes..."

Stevenson was *reading* a story containing a fictionalized version of his old friend and recognized it as such. Why is his *physical* distance from the old friend relevant? 24.239.177.111 (talk) 01:04, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

surname?[edit]

Steven Doyle, editor of The Baker Street Journal, wrote, "Conan was Arthur's middle name. Shortly after he graduated from high school he began using Conan as a sort of surname. But technically his last name is simply 'Doyle'."

The grave stone of his first wife reads "Louise Conan Doyle." That's more than "sort of." 108.20.114.62 (talk) 17:54, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

This article is tagged "DEFAULTSORT:Conan Doyle, Arthur", but here on the talk page the WikiProject Biography banner is tagged "listas=Doyle, Arthur Conan". Which is correct, please?--92.40.13.88 (talk) 17:48, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

See Arthur Conan Doyle#Name. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:02, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

So that would suggest that the DEFAULTSORT tag need to be changed then?--92.40.13.88 (talk) 22:08, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Done. --Hob Gadling (talk) 18:58, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

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