Hollywood greedy? No.....
Since when do you not to buy the rights first? Has his writings become public property somehow?
“Isa Dick Hackett”
I know there’s a joke in there somewhere.
not in the least because he was a Bi Polar Schizophrenic affective...
His stories, written largely without effective medications for his condition certainly do show his adventures into alternate reality.
Some very interesting work there.
Do androids dream of electric profits?
Won’t say that Hollywood producers are greedy; however, it’s a little known fact that electrical wire was first invented by two producers fighting over a penny.
Strange but true.
And the Grand Canyon was created by... you guessed it... a producer who dropped a nickel.
Little-known facts in American History.
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Very interesting article.
Back around Dick’s “Divorce # 2 (or maybe #3) Period”, he asked my (then single friend) wife to marry him. He was quite serious...and so was she in her refusal.
Back to the article: here is something I hope the ladies and their lawyers are exploring:
It was standard pulpzine practice back them to only purchase “First North American Serial Rights”; or, more rarely, “First Serial Rights” in a story, with all other rights remaining vested in the author. It was extremely rare for a magazine to outright purchase full rights.
So, even though the ‘Orbit’ copyright may have been valid and expired, they had most likely only purchased the right to first magazine publication in the U.S., and the anthology publication would STILL be the relavant copyright.