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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
As far as I know, it's all standard copyright.
Puzo sold Paramount control over the characters, after the first book was published and became a huge best seller.
He died in 1999, and it is his estate that wants to publish a sequel without permission of Paramount, which owns the rights to those characters.
Nothing about this dispute has any connection to "work for hire." It's all about what is in the contracts, period.
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I see that you didn't bother to read my post. I asked about the condition under which Puzo co-wrote the screenplays. You said:
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
The "Godfather" materials are not considered works-for-hire. Puzo wrote The Godfather novel first, and then sold all the rights to the book, sequels, and all the characters to Paramount.
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The "Godfather" works are not "works-for-hire." The book came first, then he sold the rights, and co-wrote the screenplays for the movie sequels.
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If co-writing the screen plays was not "work for hire", then what was it?