[xp38]

There is Fleming and everyone else. The inspiration to create Bond was a reaction to the treason of the Cambridge spies (Philby, Burgess, Maclean, Blunt et al) for the soviets. The upper class Cambridge spies shook Britain when they were exposed and made headlines in 1951. Casino Royale was published in 1953 and Bond was fighting the soviets in that book. He was definitely anti soviet at his origin.

[Defiant]

I think that while heirs have a right to the estate, their should be some restrictions on the ability to use the artistic creations of people, certainly without their express creation by the artist of an entity that controls those creations. Otherwise, it is just a fraud on the public.

We would not allow someone to be out there creating new paintings and calling them Van Goghs. This guy should be free to write his book, just not use Bond as his character unless Ian Fleming wanted this to happen. If Fleming created this publishing entity, and authorized it to write Bond books before he died, well, I guess that's ok, but there should always be a requirement that the work be labeled to avoid confusion. "Bond, as imagined by Joe Blow" prominent on the cover, and "Not written by Ian Fleming" on the back.

[a fool in paradise]

Don’t forget the British Soviet traitors in the 1960s with the Profumo affair.