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They're being a bit more glib than that. They had sent him an offer to discuss, but that offer was 100% contingent on him signing an NDA. Since he didn't sign

• gamblor956 6y ago
  Generally something like this wouldn't require an NDA, so it's likely that the WFH agreement includes special terms that Disney doesn't want other authors to be aware of, or older terms that are no longer present in their current-day contracts. Given that ADF was a big name back in the day, he was probably getting some generous sales-based bonuses. He claims he was getting paid through at least 2014 for the Star Wars novels, which would mean Disney was still paying him for 2 years after the Lucasfilm acquisition. That would have been about right for Disney to have had time to review all of the Lucasfilm contracts and stop payments on the ones where they weren't actually required to pay. (This isn't all that rare; at my former job we were paying $20k a year to a former employee and it wasn't until one of the new general counsels asked why that we actually looked at the contract to see why were were still paying it. It wasn't questioned until them because the company been making those payments for years, and in the scheme of things, was fairly immaterial. Ultimately, the former employee had been entitled to those payments for several years, but the contract term had long since run out. However, anyone with knowledge of the expiration date had since left the company, and their replacements just kept paying.)