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Originally Posted by Quoth
Costs money to file a law suit and likely to fail even if you are in the right, if you are fighting a huge USA Corporation.
Also it's about royalties not paid on earlier works and it oddly took a while to discover that Disney was the problem. It's all on the original link, read the comments too.
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Eight years? That's a long time. Also, there are ways to recover money that don't take a lot of money. Frequently in civil suits, the loser pays if it's as slam dunk as you assume.
I'm no more fond of the Mouse and their corporate antics as anyone who dislikes long term copyright, but I'm pretty sure that without looking at the contracts involved (i.e. Foster's contract with the StarWars Corp and Disney's contract with Lucas to buy his properties) one has no way of knowing one way or the other if Disney actually legally owes Foster money. This can just as easily be a situation of trying to shame a corporation into giving an author who is running into money issues some extra bucks. From the outside looking in, there is no real way to know.