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Originally Posted by murraypaul
So at least there was a happy ending  |
For suitable values of happy.
He wasn't
unhappy about it - simply bemused. It doesn't affect his plans. He caters to the collectors market, and there are plenty of people who would buy deluxe hard bound slip cased editions of Piper works. (Like me...) Now he doesn't need to deal with anyone over over rights.
What we couldn't figure out was whether Ace let the rights lapse on purpose because they no longer cared, or accidentally because of oversight. Either seemed possible.
He mentioned dealing with another company about producing a limited edition of a different work, and their response was "Go ahead and do it. We'll send you a piece of paper later saying it's okay. What we could charge you for an actual license on this would be less than it would cost us to have the lawyers prepare a contract."
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Dennis