"But for a company like Disney to take completed work, released to the world (no matter how disastrously) and then vanish it for a tax write-off, of all things... that I cannot accept."
That fate is still better than being disappeared entirely, which was the fate of thousands of films made with nitrate-based celluloid that burned up in fires almost spontaneously.
As a cinephile, believe me, I know this. Or all the silent films destroyed by studios TO GET THE SILVER BACK FROM THE FILM STOCK. Because nobody watched or cared about silents any more, so they were "just taking up room in the vaults".
My former agent once told me, "A good book dies every day," after my publisher declined to print the 2nd edition of my book, simply saying, "That's not the direction we want to go." Never mind that the first edition sold out.
I knew a guy whose publisher told him he'd written the next Jaws, made the bestseller lists... and then the publisher dropped him when he gave them the sequel. They told him it was because of piracy, and he believed it, but my guess was "straight white man with the wrong opinions".
Interesting case, because as far as I know, it never got released. I haven't looked into the circumstances to try to suss out just what the heck is going on there.
I've thought about doing a piece on this myself, or a short story... Officially, the electronic version of the SCOTUS decisions are the official record. (this is current fact on the ground.) It's also legal for the SCOTUS to edit a decision after, sometimes well after it is made. (For the record, this is SUPOSED to be just for editorial clarification, however there is no law saying that they can not substantially change the wording.) Put those two together, and I see real problems lying in wait.
And Zafón's prequel, "The Angel's Game", involves another kind of ephemeral life: works written 'for hire', where the words remain, but the true author's identity is lost.
Yeah... Amazon gets testy about works whose authorship is vague. They want death dates, even for works published in America where the copyright indisputably expired a hundred years ago. Some of them aren't even "work for hire" situations, but just... the author used initials, and nobody's nailed down who, precisely, it was, just that that name published in the pulps in, say, the 1920s through the 1940s.
I really need to read Zafon's books. In my copious free time.
Here. They're doing reprints of classic Railroad Stories. I bought 6 of them, they're amazing.
https://www.boldventurepress.com/railroad-stories-1-avalanche/
Make Bold Venture press part of the rising tide.
Yes, but that's a bit different that Railroad Man's Magazine, which was general fiction, for the man who went to work via the railroad. :)
"But for a company like Disney to take completed work, released to the world (no matter how disastrously) and then vanish it for a tax write-off, of all things... that I cannot accept."
That fate is still better than being disappeared entirely, which was the fate of thousands of films made with nitrate-based celluloid that burned up in fires almost spontaneously.
As a cinephile, believe me, I know this. Or all the silent films destroyed by studios TO GET THE SILVER BACK FROM THE FILM STOCK. Because nobody watched or cared about silents any more, so they were "just taking up room in the vaults".
My former agent once told me, "A good book dies every day," after my publisher declined to print the 2nd edition of my book, simply saying, "That's not the direction we want to go." Never mind that the first edition sold out.
I knew a guy whose publisher told him he'd written the next Jaws, made the bestseller lists... and then the publisher dropped him when he gave them the sequel. They told him it was because of piracy, and he believed it, but my guess was "straight white man with the wrong opinions".
This is why indie is so revolutionary.
Exhibit D for the prosecution: "Coyote versus Acme".
Interesting case, because as far as I know, it never got released. I haven't looked into the circumstances to try to suss out just what the heck is going on there.
I've thought about doing a piece on this myself, or a short story... Officially, the electronic version of the SCOTUS decisions are the official record. (this is current fact on the ground.) It's also legal for the SCOTUS to edit a decision after, sometimes well after it is made. (For the record, this is SUPOSED to be just for editorial clarification, however there is no law saying that they can not substantially change the wording.) Put those two together, and I see real problems lying in wait.
I've seen "we only edited for clarity", and it is quite amazing how much territory that rationalization can cover. Vast, vast continents.
(Just to be clear, I'm referring to non-legal publications.)
yes, yes indeed.
And Zafón's prequel, "The Angel's Game", involves another kind of ephemeral life: works written 'for hire', where the words remain, but the true author's identity is lost.
Yeah... Amazon gets testy about works whose authorship is vague. They want death dates, even for works published in America where the copyright indisputably expired a hundred years ago. Some of them aren't even "work for hire" situations, but just... the author used initials, and nobody's nailed down who, precisely, it was, just that that name published in the pulps in, say, the 1920s through the 1940s.
I really need to read Zafon's books. In my copious free time.