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The only sane thing to do in response to this is the same thing that SHOULD have been done when Paramount went all sue happy on folks making unofficial Star Trek stuff.
Creators should stop making things related to their works and consumers should stop consuming and giving Paramount money for the official works.
The lesson being if the rights holder for something wants to keep it all to themselves, let them, forget it exists and starve it out of profitable existence. Spend the time and money with content, creators, and consumers that don't believe sucking up ever dime that's not nailed down is, or should be, the ultimate goal.
Did you even read the article? This dumbass wrote a book based on LotR characters and then HE tried to sue the Tolkien estate and Amazon. This person actually probably needs mental help if they think this could have worked, it was such an incredibly bad idea that there has to be some kind of mental health crises involved.
Worth also mentioning the Tolkien estate is notoriously letigous. There are piracy sites that specifically ban Tolkiens works from being uploaded for that very reason.
They plagiarized his fanfiction. Theoretically you would have rights to your stories even if they involve characters that you don't have rights to.
US law is on the Estate’s side
If the characters/events from LOTR are a big part of his fan fiction then the Estate can have it destroyed
Also since the author had no legal ownership of the works, there is nothing wrong with the people who have rights to it using it
Transformative works exist, I don't think it works like that.
The if part is what gets argued in court
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_use
Fifty Shades vs Twilight would be transformative
Would be the most likely case reference for this ruling where Anderson made a Rocky sequel and it was deemed infringement
Yeah wow it's like I thought ( the right holder being able to dick around writers)
After he had meetings with MGM about using that script.
That's a lose lose scenario. I'd rather guillotine the copyright holder so the IP "fall in the public domain" if you ask me.
Your true enemy is capitalism, tho. Don't shoot the messenger.
Can’t have copyright in capitalistic systems
The person who can produce the work the cheapest is the one who gets money