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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
That is weird, because the author's rights are not inheritable, and only the author himself has the rights to make modifications in their works.
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Copyright IS transferable. So assuming the Dahl estate and Netflix are not blindly committing suicide by doing something they have no legal right to do, I'm guessing that the author completed the proper written requirements to transfer his rights to his estate before his death. Hence the estate's legal right to sell the rights to Netflix. Hence Netflix's legal right to make (or approve/print) these changes.
I'm perfectly capable of recognizing their legal right to do what they're doing while simultaneously thinking it's quite stupid to do it. I don't, however, think it's anything remotely new, tragic, or all that troublesome (on a grand scale). Just stupid (from a personal viewpoint). We've all read words in works that differed from what the original author wrote without knowing it.