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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Only if the original contract assigned the IP in the first place. The whole point here is that these weren't works for hire where the copyright belongs to the commissioning company, but were licensed from the creator and copyright holder, Alan Dean Foster.
You can't buy a licence and then assert that the terms of the licence don't apply to you.
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Well, no, that's not true. I have both books and Foster isn't listed as the copyright holder in either case. George Lucas has the copyright for the original Star Wars novelization and the Star Wars Corporation is the copyright holder for Splinter in the Mind's Eye.
As I keep saying, both books are works for hire and thus are contract issues rather than copyright issues.