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Originally Posted by Quoth
Legally as in an obtained licence. But any Publisher is really violating rights of the author to do that without the author's permission. Like if a publisher gets rights for a book, they can't produce an audio book, TV series, play, Cinema, sell prints & models of characters, produce a translation.
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But if they do get rights, then they can do all of that, all depending on the contract. There's an interesting case surrounding David Lodges, Changing Places. Author agreed to a screen adaptation, he sold the rights of the novel, then the movie entered production hell, and was never made. The rights were sold for infinite time, so he could do nothing about it.