Harlan Ellison, now deceased, God rest his soul, was a contentious personality who also sued James Cameron director of the first Terminator film (1984) for copyright infringement - and won an undisclosed settlement with the backing of the film’s producers who refused to back Cameron in the suit, telling him he could fight it on his own and pay the penalty if he lost. Cameron being broke, caved which is why in all subsequent prints of The Terminator (1984), at the beginning of the end credits, you see ‘Acknowledgement to the works of Harlan Ellison’. The point of contention was work Ellison did for the Outer Limits TV show.
I do recall thinking, "Oh yeah. Makes sense." when I read about the lawsuit.
You could have also mentioned Harlan Ellison was the reason Asimov's "I Robot" was never produced.
Although acclaimed by critics, the screenplay is generally considered to have been unfilmable based upon the technology and average film budgets of the time.[6] Asimov also believed that the film may have been scrapped because of a conflict between Ellison and the producers: when the producers suggested changes in the script, instead of being diplomatic as advised by Asimov, Ellison "reacted violently" and offended the producers.[7] The script was serialized in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in late 1987, and eventually appeared in book form under the title I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay, in 1994 (reprinted 2004, ISBN 1-4165-0600-4).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot
I was a subscriber at the time and read the serialized version in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. Harlan Ellison was a pumped up jerk.!