Lawsuit over 'warmer' Sherlock depicted in Enola Holmes dismissed | Arthur Conan Doyle | The Guardian

The estate argued that Holmes was previously depicted by Conan Doyle as "aloof and unemotional". But when the author lost his son during the first world war, and his brother four months later, "it was no longer enough that the Holmes character was the most brilliant rational and analytical mind. Holmes needed to be human. The character needed to develop human connection and empathy ... He became capable of friendship. He could express emotion. He began to respect women."

The suit claimed that Springer's novels, in which she created a younger sister for Holmes, and the film adaptation starring Millie Bobby Brown in the title role, made "extensive use" of the copyrighted stories, which "constitutes wilful, deliberate, and ongoing infringement of the Conan Doyle Estate's copyrights".