• @brsrklf
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    599 months ago

    To be confirmed, but this sounds a bit like how Disney decided they didn’t need to pay any more royalties to people who wrote Star Wars novelizations and original novels.

    Like, “you don’t have a contract with us, you had one with George Lucas before we bought Star Wars, it didn’t transfer.” Very shady, and probably a lot easier to pull when you’re a huge corporation against a small creator.

    • @Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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      479 months ago

      By that logic, “You don’t have a contract with me, therefore you can’t own my intellectual property,” should also apply, no?

      Like, if your intellectual property was given away on the basis of an ongoing royalty payment, and Disney decides not to honour that contract, then they can’t keep the IP.

      • Davel23
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        199 months ago

        Probably true, but who’s going to tell Disney’s legal department?

      • @brsrklf
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        119 months ago

        Yeah, that’s how I feel about that too, of course. But somehow, looks like Disney got to have the cake and eat it too.

        • Feydaikin
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          49 months ago

          I’ve been lead to believe that Disneys legal department is feared even among other giant corporations.

          They’ve been doing shady business for a long time and don’t fuck around, I guess.