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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
I have a related example. It's not an exact parallel, I know, but it is all about the right to say "no", so not unrelated. : As someone whose favourite JRRT work is The Silmarillion, I praise Ea that that hideous Orc Peter Jackson has never been allowed to get his Melkor-motivated mitts on that book, because the rights holders were allowed to exercise the right to say no
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Oddly, my first print/first edition of The Silmarillion has the publisher listed as the copyright holder. The ebook has Tolkien Copyright Trust as the copyright holder. In either case, the copyright was never held by J.R.R. Tolkien.