Comment Re:We can be certain of one thing (Score 1) 152
That was an analogy and was not intended to be identical in every way. The similarity is in the relationship between employee and employer, and the significance of what someone might consider the "main work" when in fact it is not.
Why do I have to explain this?
Because in the case of creator's rights that your analogy is aluding to, it's the relationship of the creator and employer that are the most relevant to the discussion.
It's the creator, or their estates, who often claim control of the rights and demand compensation retroactively for a share of the total profits. That hardly if ever happens with the dozens of people who created new material using the characters after the creator has moved on.
So the players in a relevant analogy are:
The creator who had the original idea for a character = The inventor of the recipe for the burger, nuggets, joyful meal etc.
The people who do the "main work" for decades after the creator stops working on the character (and usually generate more total revenue than the creator ever did alone). Writers, artists, colorists, inkers, letterers, editors = burger flippers, fry cooks, managers, etc.
The employer = The employer.
That last one was spot on, I'll say.