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Originally Posted by Keryl Raist
I write fantasy, and though it's unlikely to happen to me because I've got a small market, it's still possible that if you sell your rights to the publisher, they can do whatever they like to your characters. Especially in fantasy you see this happen. You create characters that take off, and next thing you know there's a huge pile of other books based on those characters doing things you don't want them doing.
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Why do you think a publisher could, or would, do that?
Yes, really successful writers sometimes get to farm out their characters (if they choose to), and thus print money. But a publisher that simple stole a writer's characters would be asking to be sued up the wazoo.