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February 25, 2011 11:22 am PST
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Tolkien estate censors badge that contains the word "Tolkien"
Not content to censor a book that combines literary criticism and fiction by including JRR Tolkien as a character, the Tolkien estate has shut down a guy who makes and gives away buttons that have the word Tolkien on them: Back in the late 2009, I got into a Twitter conversation with Madeline Ashby about geek culture, fandom, and a bunch of stuff like that. Madeline wrote, "While you were reading Tolkien, I was watching Evangelion." I thought this was an excellent encapsulation of the divide in SF/F/Whatever fandom, and thus took to Zazzle to make little buttons with her quote. I bought a bunch, handed them out at a few conventions, then I had a kid and promptly forgot all about it. Until today, when Zazzle emailed me to say they were pulling the buttons for intellectual property right infringement. And guess who complained about their rights being infringed? I've tried to come up with something more to say about this, but I'm too angry and confused and tired to say anything more than I did in the title of this post. Have fun milking your dad's stuff, Christopher Tolkien! The Tolkien estate has long had a censorious bent -- a writer I admire was forced to put a series of books that in no way infringed upon Tolkien's copyrights out of print because the estate threatened to make her publisher's life a living nightmare (not naming names, because the writer has chosen not to go public with the story). The professional descendants making millions off a long-dead writer have become a serious impediment to living, working writers -- and readers. If this isn't the greatest proof that extending copyright in scope and duration screws living creators and impedes the creation of new works, I don't know what is. The JRR Tolkien Estate Can Go Fuck Itself (via Futurismic) Tolkien estate tries to kill novel starring fictionalized Tolkien ... Boing Boing: Tolkien estate claims trademark for "shire" Hunt for Gollum: gorgeous-looking unauthorized fan-sequel to Lord ... Gaiman on fair use - Boing Boing Cold dead hand of Frank Herbert reaches up from grave, stabs Dune ... Pulitzer-winning fanfic: a non-exhaustive list - Boing Boing...
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