NotTV: Novelist getting the shaft from The Mouse

[Bob Jersey]

When I was of grade-school age, one of my brothers acquired multiple paperbacks of works by Alan Dean Foster, credited with the story for Star Trek: TMP as well as a slew of movie novelizations (he ghost-wrote the one for Star Wars [Episode Four: A New Hope] credited to G. Lucas)... on the site of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, he gripes that since D!sney took over Lucasfilm and 20th, he ain't been paid for the SW and Alien books...

http://www.sfwa.org/disney-must-pay/ (link)

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[Adam Bowie]

Likewise, my brother and I read that original (ghost-written) Star Wars novelisation endlessly. I think we each ended up with a copy. And of course Alan Dean Foster was the king of the movie novelisation. This is not a good look for Disney.

Adam

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[PGage]

If Disney thinks they will win a fight between themselves and ADF in the eyes of science fiction fans, they are in for a big surprise.

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[Kevin M.]

Here’s a good (albeit depressing) Twitter thread outline just how egregious it is for Disney to do what it’s doing, but that it is following in the footsteps of the people who control Taylor Swift’s music.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1329240238816858120?s=21

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[Joe Hass]

The bad news: 99.99% of people are not science fiction fans.

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[Adam Bowie]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 6:58 PM Joe Hass <hassg...@gmail.com> wrote:

The bad news: 99.99% of people are not science fiction fans.

I'd argue that the success of MCU movies, amongst others, suggests otherwise...

[Joe Hass]

I'll edit it to: 99.99% of people have not purchased a science fiction book in their lives and could not pick out ADF for a small cash sum.

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[PGage]

Perhaps, but the percentage is lower of the population that follows Star Wars. Not that I am predicting a sudden boycott of Star Wars or Marvel. But it can’t be that much money, and it would be cheap good will.

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[PGage]

Frankly, I had not actually read the linked article until just now (was curious if it provided the amount owed, it does not). But it does make clear that Disney is being even more horrible about this than I originally assumed. It goes beyond treating a beloved Sci Fi writer in such a shabby fashion. As his lawyer puts it:

“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?”