When the estate learned that, it threatened to block sales of the book at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble unless the publisher obtained a license to use any of the characters, including Holmes and Watson.
Richard Monson-Haefel of Noble Beast, the multimedia publisher behind "Steampunk Holmes," an interactive mash-up based on the public-domain story "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans," said he paid a fee to the estate after learning it also asserts trademark protection for the character that, unlike copyright, can be renewed in perpetuity.
After nine years, a woman returns to a Louisiana estate to learn the truth about her mother's mysterious death.
The Calder estate also learned that the gallery kept at least two sets of books — a practice that the Perls side said was not unusual.
History buffs can drive or hike to neighbouring Bartholomew Park Winery, once part of Haraszthy's estate, to learn more about the flamboyant count – including the devastating phylloxera virus that ended his winemaking career … and the alligator that ended him.
But when the local real estate community learned that China Construction was dumping its suites, the price for office space in the building fell 50percentto to 5,000 renminbi a square meter, or $56 a square foot.
When Ralph Roberts, a Detroit real estate broker, learned last week that Ed McMahon was facing foreclosure on his home in Beverly Hills, he called one of the star's representatives to volunteer his help.
One New York real estate lawyer learned by letter that he was to lose his equity share in the partnership where he had worked for nearly 20 years, but had the option of staying on with a salary cut of 10 percent and a limited contract that would have to be renewed by the firm every 18 months.
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