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If he sold his rights then it's not really against his wishes anymore.
by jeffreyrogers 2y ago
If he sold his rights then it's not really against his wishes anymore.
- swores 2y agoHe died. So pedantically you can say he doesn't have any wishes any more, but it's clear they meant that it's against what he wanted when alive.
- jeffreyrogers 2y agoWell he chose not to make those wishes known in his will apparently, or in any of the contracts which assigned his IP to others.
- bazoom42 2y agoHe did. Hergé wished that the series should not be continued after his death.
- andrepd 2y agoSilly me, I thought there was ethics beyond The Profit Motive.
- jeffreyrogers 2y agoThe author owns the copyright unless they transfer it. His transference of those rights shows that he was motivated by profit.
- ForOldHack 2y ago“It appears, from a 1942 document… that Hergé gave publishing rights for the books of the adventures of Tintin to publisher Casterman so Moulinsart is not the one to decide who can use material from the books,” ( in Dutch ) https://www.livreshebdo.fr/sites/default/files/assets/document/ie_forum_be_hof_den_haag_26_mei_2015__iefbe_1351__moulinsart_tegen_herge_genootschap_.pdf https://www.livreshebdo.fr/sites/default/files/assets/docume...