Column: These historic works are coming free from copyright. Why did it take so long?

Column: These historic works are coming free from copyright. Why did it take so long?

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It’s well understood that Sherlock Holmes dispatched his great nemesis, Professor Moriarty, to his death in the 1893 story “The Final Problem,” but not until this New Year’s Day does the fictional detective shed the shackles that have bound him to an even longer-lived nemesis: the complexities of…

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