Vi läser i ameriknska Locus (och mer kommentarer om snåla Disney sist):
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and author Alan Dean
Foster held a press conference November 18, 2020, claiming that Disney has been
withholding payment for Foster’s work on Star Wars and Alien novelizations.
According to their press release:
Foster was originally contracted to write the Alien novelizations by Titan
Books, and the Star Wars novelizations by Lucasfilm. Both companies regularly
paid his royalties. When The Walt Disney Company acquired the rights to these
novelizations in 2015, the payments stopped although the books continue to be
sold. Disney continues to get money for the books. Alan Dean Foster, and
possibly other authors with similar contracts, have not been paid.
Foster brought the issue to SFWA’s grievance committee last year. SFWA
president Mary Robinette Kowal said:
In my decade with the organization, the fact that we are forced to present
this publicly is unprecedented. So too, are the problems. The simple problem is
that we have a writer who is not being paid.
The larger problem has the potential to affect every writer. Disney’s
argument is that they have purchased the rights but not the obligations of the
contract. In other words, they believe they have the right to publish work, but
are not obligated to pay the writer no matter what the contract says. If we let
this stand, it could set precedent to fundamentally alter the way copyright and
contracts operate in the United States. All a publisher would have to do to
break a contract would be to sell it to a sibling company.
If they are doing this to Alan Dean Foster, one of the great science fiction
writers of our time, then what are they doing to the younger writers who do not
know that a contract is a contract?
Undertecknad gillar Kalle Anka, men inte nödvändigtvis Disney, som har har en
lång historik av egensinnighet och snålhet.
Man har finkammat historien på andras sagor att göra film på, och sedan
försöker man hävda att man "äger" sagan.
Disney är tillsammans med Tyskland lobbyisten som förlängde upphovsrätten
från 50 till hopplösa 70 års tid EFTER förrfattarens död! Detta för att man
ville fortsätta "äga" sina allra tidigaste filmer, från sent 1920-tal (som om
de hade något större kommersiellt värde!).
Carl Barks fick aldrig annat än månadslön för alla figurer han uppfann i
Kalle Anka-världen.
Nej, Disney är lika snålt som farbror Joakim.
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