Why won’t Google include my Sherlock Holmes copyright post?

In January, I posted about my research into the history of the copyright status on Sherlock Holmes. Although many news outlets rang in the New Year with proclamations that Sherlock Holmes was now free of copyright and in the public domain (“Now anybody can write a Sherlock Holmes story”), I pointed out that they’d made similar proclamations in 2013 (“Finally, Sherlock Holmes is now in the public domain”) after a 7th Circuit court decision castigated the Doyle literary estate.

Indeed,...