this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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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.