• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Authors that wrote books from before the Internet still get residuals from digital versions of their books being sold. It’s really shitty that studios who hold the rights to shows aren’t sharing profits with the artists who made the works they are selling.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Tolkien’s estate still gets huge stacks of cash from a book series he wrote over 75 years ago. It’s sickening.