Submission + - Disney Stealing From SF Writer Alan Dean Foster 1
wiredog writes: Disney has developed a radical new theory of copyright:
When Disney bought Lucasfilm and Fox, they acquired the copyright licenses that enabled them to sell Alan Dean Foster's books — but not the liability, the legal obligation to actually pay him for those books. They have apparently also done this to numerous other authors.
The statement from the Science Fiction Writers of America is here. and also a Twitter thread from Cory Doctorow.
When Disney bought Lucasfilm and Fox, they acquired the copyright licenses that enabled them to sell Alan Dean Foster's books — but not the liability, the legal obligation to actually pay him for those books. They have apparently also done this to numerous other authors.
The statement from the Science Fiction Writers of America is here. and also a Twitter thread from Cory Doctorow.
Same same (Score:2)
Disney is at the center of doing exactly this ever since Walt based his mouse on that rabbit, and went on to extend copyprivilege from 5 years to $ageOfMrMouse.
It's funny that people still believe copyprivilege was ever about authors, or rights. It's a *distributor*'s privilege to an imaginary monopoly for the explicit purpose of artificial scarcity, and hence usury, which in the case of the "product" being information, is equivalent to theft.