Here is the press conference SFWA hosted with Alan Dean Foster earlier today, November 18, 2020.It's been at least 25 years since I saw Alien & Aliens. If you are a writer experiencing similar problems with Disney or another company, please report your circumstances to us here. If you’re a fan of Alan Dean Foster or believe that a writer’s work has value, please let Disney know. Regardless of choice, Disney must pay Alan Dean Foster. You have our contact information and offer to sit down with a Disney representative, Alan’s agent Vaughne Lee Hansen, and a SFWA representative. Publication ceases and pay all back royalties to Alan Dean Foster.Publication ceases until new contract(s) are signed, and pay all back royalties to Alan Dean Foster as well as any future royalties.Pay Alan Dean Foster all back royalties as well as any future royalties.To resolve the immediate issue regarding their breach of contract with Alan Dean Foster, Disney has three choices: If they are doing this to Alan Dean Foster, one of the great science fiction writers of our time, then what are they doing to the younger writers who do not know that a contract is a contract? All a publisher would have to do to break a contract would be to sell it to a sibling company. If we let this stand, it could set precedent to fundamentally alter the way copyright and contracts operate in the United States. In other words, they believe they have the right to publish work, but are not obligated to pay the writer no matter what the contract says. Disney’s argument is that they have purchased the rights but not the obligations of the contract. The larger problem has the potential to affect every writer. The simple problem is that we have a writer who is not being paid. In my decade with the organization, the fact that we are forced to present this publicly is unprecedented. “The way you do anything is the way you do everything.”
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Maybe someone in the right position just hasn’t received the word, though after all these months of ignored requests and queries, that’s hard to countenance. I don’t think Unca Walt would approve of how you are currently treating me.
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The films, the parks, growing up with the Disneyland TV show. My wife has serious medical issues and in 2016 I was diagnosed with an advanced form of cancer. How many other writers and artists out there are you similarly ignoring? Including not to be ignored, just because I’m only one lone writer. But I’m still here, and I am still entitled to what you owe me. Ignore requests and inquiries hoping the petitioner will simply go away. I know this is what gargantuan corporations often do. You continue to ignore my legal representatives. You continue to ignore queries from SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. You continue to ignore requests from my agents. Every one of my representatives in this matter, with many, many decades of experience in such business, echo my bewilderment. For the obvious reason that once you sign, you can no longer talk about the matter at hand. Never once did anyone ever ask me to sign one prior to negotiations. I’ve signed a lot of NDAs in my 50-year career. You want me to sign an NDA (Non-disclosure agreement) before even talking.
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I’d very much like my miniscule (though it’s not small to me) share. You’re certainly reaping the benefits of the assets. When one company buys another, they acquire its liabilities as well as its assets. You’ve never paid royalties on any of these, or even issued royalty statements for them.Īll these books are all still very much in print. The novelizations of ALIEN, ALIENS, and ALIEN 3. When you purchased 20th Century Fox, you eventually acquired the rights to other books I had written. SPLINTER OF THE MIND’S EYE, the first sequel novel. STAR WARS, the novelization of the very first film. When you purchased Lucasfilm you acquired the rights to some books I wrote. In this case, the member is Alan Dean Foster.
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When talks break down, the president of SFWA is asked to step in. When it is working, as president, I never hear from them. As part of our negotiating toolbox, we guarantee anonymity for both the writer and the publisher if the grievance is resolved. The Grievance Committee is designed to resolve contract disputes like this. He had written novels and was not being paid the royalties that were specified in his contract. Last year, a member came to SFWA’s Grievance Committee with a problem, which on the surface sounds simple and resolvable. (note added )Ī message from SFWA’s President, Mary Robinette Kowal: For updates on #DisneyMustPay and the writers who have and have not had their missing royalties and/or statements resolved with Disney, please visit the #DisneyMustPay Task Force’s website,.