Alan Dean Foster wrote the novelizations for Star Wars, Alien & other movies. For many years he collected royalties on those books. Then Disney acquired ownership these properties & stopped paying him. The greed of a company with more money than God:http://file770.com/the-disneymustpay-alan-dean-foster-and-sfwa-joint-press-conference/ …
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pondering the amount of US soft power expended during trade negotiations to extend int'l copywright protection of Mickey Mouse is depressing
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Disney to authors & their contracts: "I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further"pic.twitter.com/mLjqOXzDnr
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I believe they clawed back ~$20K that Gary Friedrich made selling posters at conventions calling himself the co-creator of Ghost Rider, having written the character's first appearance. Friedrich was long retired and living on a fixed income.
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The first - and only - Star Wars book I read was Foster's "Splinter of the Mind's Eye." I still have it. Disney ought to be ashamed.
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Same here [gestures at big ol' bookcase]
It's pure undiluted thievery of creator labor... Absolutely unconscionable.
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