> For books authors generally get a percentage of revenue (with some caveats) which is even better.
Yes and it's very small.
Like less than 10%
You make more money by autoproducing.
Very few authors make money with books.
> Is that a necessarily positive outcome? Even if you don't believe that authors should have the right to excise creative control over their work
Please, stop using this false dichotomy and to pur words in my mouth.
You have to stop talking like what you're saying is true, what is true and what usually happens is Felix Salten that sells the story of Bambi to a movie director for a thousand dollars, the director then sell it to Disney, Disney wins 4 oscars and makes a pile of money out of it while Salten dies alone in Zurich few years later without even being mentioned in the Disney movie.
The English translation has also a complete different meaning than the original German one. Talking about creative control...
The story of the copyright of Bambi is interesting because after Salten death his daughter fought for the rights and after a few controversial rulings, her husband, that continued after Salten's daughter's death, won.
But that means two things
- nobody knows what the original author would have wanted, but others that never wrote a single line of the book claimed the rights
- with that ruling the US courts basically said that as long as someone renew the copyright, it can well be ethernal, there is no need to be authors, there is no right to creative control (which is granted BTW for being the author, that has nothing to do with copyright, you conflate the two things constantly) it's all about the money
In the end those holding the copyrights most of the times are not the authors, Disney wrote none of the stories that made him rich and famous.
So the rethoric about poor authors not being compensated it's completely fabricated, it's already happening, it always happened.
It's the "think of the children" of the publishing world.
Actual copyright laws made nothing to prevent it while also making it close to impossible for many authors to innovate over the existing material, that's why we see only (kinda boring) superheroes movies nowadays and to see something different we have to watch South Korean productions
Yes and it's very small.
Like less than 10%
You make more money by autoproducing.
Very few authors make money with books.
> Is that a necessarily positive outcome? Even if you don't believe that authors should have the right to excise creative control over their work
Please, stop using this false dichotomy and to pur words in my mouth.
You have to stop talking like what you're saying is true, what is true and what usually happens is Felix Salten that sells the story of Bambi to a movie director for a thousand dollars, the director then sell it to Disney, Disney wins 4 oscars and makes a pile of money out of it while Salten dies alone in Zurich few years later without even being mentioned in the Disney movie.
The English translation has also a complete different meaning than the original German one. Talking about creative control...
The story of the copyright of Bambi is interesting because after Salten death his daughter fought for the rights and after a few controversial rulings, her husband, that continued after Salten's daughter's death, won.
But that means two things
- nobody knows what the original author would have wanted, but others that never wrote a single line of the book claimed the rights
- with that ruling the US courts basically said that as long as someone renew the copyright, it can well be ethernal, there is no need to be authors, there is no right to creative control (which is granted BTW for being the author, that has nothing to do with copyright, you conflate the two things constantly) it's all about the money
In the end those holding the copyrights most of the times are not the authors, Disney wrote none of the stories that made him rich and famous.
So the rethoric about poor authors not being compensated it's completely fabricated, it's already happening, it always happened.
It's the "think of the children" of the publishing world.
Actual copyright laws made nothing to prevent it while also making it close to impossible for many authors to innovate over the existing material, that's why we see only (kinda boring) superheroes movies nowadays and to see something different we have to watch South Korean productions