OT: R.A. Lafferty estate's problems explained

Gwern Branwen · 14 Jul 2013, 19:33 · from 2013-July.txt.gz

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From: gwern at gwern.net (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 15:33:29 -0400
Subject: (urth) OT: R.A. Lafferty estate's problems explained
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On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:
> How can they have intellectual rights to something as general as freezing time, a fantasy of probably just about everyone who has ever lived?   Absolutely ludicrous.

I think the post is pretty clear that that is not what was going on
there; the studio simply wanted to guarantee that a competing film
couldn't be made. It's a good thing - Lafferty's estate got a rich
reward for nothing. (That it would touch off a stasis as greed took
over is not something that would generally happen to a writer's
estates and could not be predicted in advance.)

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