Os livros foram descontinuados pela editora do autor, Dell Books, seguindo o Toho vs. Morrow legal e um aumento dramático no cessar-e -desistem cartas enviadas pela Paramount
Farrand parece ter continuado a publicar livros de opinião, mas apenas com o consentimento explícito dos vários estúdios envolvidos. Presumivelmente, a Paramount se recusou a dar esse consentimento, daí porque os livros permanecem incompletos.
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My current writing career ended sometime around noon last Monday when my agent Steve Ettlinger called. (Quite a way to start the week, eh?)
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Here's the facts as I know them. Apparently, there was an unauthorized movie guide for Godzilla that was due to be released in conjunction with the new movie. In mid-April, the copyright and trademark owners of Godzilla won an injunction against the publisher of the unauthorized guide and stopped it's release.
Unfortunately, the judgment in the case was written quite broadly.
At the same time, Paramount has been stomping through the unauthorized publishing niche--as they did on the web several months back--firing off letters to anyone and everyone that they feel might be infringing on their copyrights. A few weeks ago, I spoke with a fellow author whose publisher had yanked his DS9 trivia book after he had already turned in the manuscript.
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Dell has canceled the Star Wars Nitpicker's Guide and has stated that it has no interest in publishing any other Nitpicker's Guides.
However, as far as I know, Dell will continue to sell the current spate of Guide. But . . . my relationship with them has ended.
And . . . it seems unlikely that another publisher would be willing to take on the risk--given the atmosphere of the market and other current lawsuits.