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Originally Posted by Sauron the White
I would remind everyone here that when I started this thread my intention was not to build a case for legal action or litigation taken against Christopher Tolkien, The Tolkien Estate or anyone else. It was motivated by a desire for future filmmakers to , as far as is possible withing the confines of changing mediums from one art form to another, "get it right".
Over the last several pages we have become enmeshed in legal arguements about copyright, enforcement, penalites and other "legal aspects" as one poster put it. I have stated several times that I am not a lawyer, did not attend law school and am at a disadvantage in arguing the technical legalities of a situation.
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you started the legal arguments. You started them in your very first post. Here's that quote for the third time:
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Is it not possible, that a sharp legal staff with some innovative thinking, could well claim that they own the films rights to that material and anything published later and made known to the public can be used by them as well since it only details material which they already owned and had use of?
Could it not be legally argued that CT causing to be published the SIL after his fathers death, was the unfair diminishing of rights his father had already sold and were legally owned by others?
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Subsequently you insisted on the validity of your own interpretation of copyright law over everyone else's– including a lawyer's. Your arguments showed that you knew nothing about the subject, but that didn't stop you nitpicking on every possible point and refusing to back down. It seems to me that you never had any intention of accepting an answer to the question you posed, unless it was one you wanted to hear.
At any time you were free to drop the whole copyright issue– by conceding defeat– and move on to what you say is your main point.
Well, then, how about it?