November 19, 2020: The Mouse Tries To Rewrite Copyright Law

tl;dr If you buy a publisher you no longer have to pay royalties on the works you acquire.

Sounds crazy, no? But it's apparently the Disney position now.

They're withholding royalties from Alan Dean Foster. ALAN DEAN FOSTER! And he says they want him to sign an NDA before they'll even negotiate.

He did not roll over. He want to SFWA. (You go, SFWA.) Here's the story.

-- Steve Jackson