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Originally Posted by HarryT
Er, yes, Jon? He's is claiming royalties rightfully owed on works clearly derived from his material. Do you have a problem with that?
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Yes, I do. Unless Mr. Ellison had a special, super-duper contract unheard-of in Hollywood at the time, his scriptwork and all the characters in it, were works-for-hire and there are no residuals owing. This has been standard Hollywood practice since sound came out. He effectively acknowledges this in his forward to his book printing of his I, Robot script.
Yes, individual contracts can be cut, but I doubt even Harlan had the clout in 1966 to get a ground-breaking one made; especially for a marginal TV show (at the time).
This is the world of Hollywood, which has no correlation to anything we think of as "reality".