<story><title>Iconic Star Wars Book Author Claims Disney Owes Him 4 Years of Overdue Royalties</title><url>https://movieweb.com/star-wars-books-alan-dean-foster-disney-royalties/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gamblor956</author><text>No, the more accurate headline would be the one that is currently in place (that the author is claiming that he is owed royalties).&lt;p&gt;As it stands, the irrefutable evidence from the US Copyright Office is that these novelizations were works-for-hire, so ADF would never have been owed any royalties, let alone for the past 4 years, unless he had a non-standard WFH agreement which he has thus far failed to produce.</text></item><item><author>hairofadog</author><text>I’m no lawyer, but from my perspective a more accurate headline would be “Disney owes iconic Star Wars book author 4 years of overdue royalties”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>SFWA seems to be saying that Disney&amp;#x27;s argument is that when they bought the rights from George Lucas, the royalties didn&amp;#x27;t come along with that. It seems Disney is not asserting there are no royalties in the contract, just rather that they don&amp;#x27;t have to pay them.&lt;p&gt;I assume SFWA and ADF have discussed this beyond what they are posting to twitter. Him not posting the contract to everyone on the internet seems like a weird detail to call out as a point against him.</text></comment>
<story><title>Iconic Star Wars Book Author Claims Disney Owes Him 4 Years of Overdue Royalties</title><url>https://movieweb.com/star-wars-books-alan-dean-foster-disney-royalties/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gamblor956</author><text>No, the more accurate headline would be the one that is currently in place (that the author is claiming that he is owed royalties).&lt;p&gt;As it stands, the irrefutable evidence from the US Copyright Office is that these novelizations were works-for-hire, so ADF would never have been owed any royalties, let alone for the past 4 years, unless he had a non-standard WFH agreement which he has thus far failed to produce.</text></item><item><author>hairofadog</author><text>I’m no lawyer, but from my perspective a more accurate headline would be “Disney owes iconic Star Wars book author 4 years of overdue royalties”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigzero</author><text>That may be the case since he WAS getting the royalties before Disney snatched it up.</text></comment>