Every one of my representatives in this matter, with many, many decades of experience in such business, echo my bewilderment. For the obvious reason that once you sign, you can no longer talk about the matter at hand. Never once did anyone ever ask me to sign one prior to negotiations. I’ve signed a lot of NDAs in my 50-year career. You want me to sign an NDA (Non-disclosure agreement) before even talking. I’d very much like my miniscule (though it’s not small to me) share. You’re certainly reaping the benefits of the assets. When one company buys another, they acquire its liabilities as well as its assets. You’ve never paid royalties on any of these, or even issued royalty statements for them.Īll these books are all still very much in print. The novelizations of ALIEN, ALIENS, and ALIEN 3. When you purchased 20th Century Fox, you eventually acquired the rights to other books I had written. SPLINTER OF THE MIND’S EYE, the first sequel novel. STAR WARS, the novelization of the very first film. When you purchased Lucasfilm you acquired the rights to some books I wrote. This is all usually dealt with by SFWA behind closed doors) written by the fan-favourite author regarding the situation. Yesterday the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America published a statement and a letter (which in itself is unusual. Disney’s excuse? They only purchased the rights, not the obligations. Disney and its relationship to Alien and Predator has once again entered the news for now refusing to pay the legendary Alan Dean Foster the royalties owed for his Alien (and Star Wars) novels. I’m not going to pretend to be any sort of entertainment lawyer, or laws expert, but even as a layman this excuse has me raising my eyebrows.
0 kommentar(er)
