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Look, I agree his works shouldn’t be destroyed, just not monetizable.

But the dude poked a bear with a sharp stick… Suing the creators of the story/characters you’ve built your content on for copyright infringement? Brilliant move…

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Suing the creators

JRR Tolkein has been dead for fifty years.

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He explicitly sued Tolkiens estate. Effectively the same.

Your semantics aren’t appreciated.

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‘The artist, the artist, the artist! And whoever owns their corpse. Same difference, right? Just semantics.

Every fucking thread with you cultists. Do you listen to yourself?

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This is more like smacking a warhead with a hammer until it blows like in Loony Tunes. It is a shockingly suicidal decision with predictable results. He’ll be in debt for the rest of his life and should be thankful the Tolkien estate didn’t have him flayed for his impudence. Learning about how out of touch with reality the author is does make me curious how unhinged his book might be, though. If it turns out to be “The Room” of lotr fanficfiction I’d like to see it fan canonized just to spite the most litigious family in literature.

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Right? Like I’d go write Harry Potter 8 and then sue WB lol that guy is nuts.

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