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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
LucasFilms were paying him from the goodness of their heart; the new owner doesn't have to honor the previous contacts with contractors or employees.
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Please run that one by me again. Unless Disney picked LucasFilms up from a bankruptcy sale, they purchased the whole company with both it's assets and liabilities. Unless there was a novation agreement, the contract would still be in force.
You did read the linked article? Including a comment by Mary Robinette Kowal:
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This contract specifically says that it is binding on “successors and assigns” which would be Disney.
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It's entirely possible that those royalties were how LucasFilm paid ADF instead of a single upfront payment.
And please don't write sentences suggesting that a company is giving away money from the goodness of their heart when that payment was codified in a written contract. Do you know how painful it is to spray coffee out your nose onto your keyboard?