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STAR WARS WARS
In a long-running saga that dates back to a grievance by author Alan Dean Foster, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has launched the Disney Must Pay Joint Task Force. The matter began when Disney took over the rights to the Star Wars universe from LucasFilm in 2012, and then more recently acquired the Fox film library and associated rights, which included those to the Alien series and associated merchandising tie-ins.
Foster claimed that Disney has withheld royalty payments for his novelisations of the original and films – he wrote the novelisation of Star Wars (though George Lucas had his name on the cover) and. All five books are still in print and remain strong sellers. The author is reported to have particularly needed the money as both his wife and himself have been undergoing treatment for cancer. This matter has now, after nearly a decade, just been resolved with Disney.
