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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Yea, that does seem a bit odd. It's all about the contracts. My understanding is that most novelizations of movies and many books set in various universes such as Star Wars and Star Trek are works for hire. It purely depends on the contract. One can usually look on the title page of the book and see who has the copyright. Star Wars was copyrighted by George Lucas and Foster is not mentioned (though it was long rumored that he actually wrote it based on the screen play), Splinter is copyrighted by the Star Wars Corp. So both were likely works for hire and covered by the contract rather than by copyright law.
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Does anybody know what kind of contract Mr. Foster engaged in directly with Disney when he did the novelization of "The Black Hole?"