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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 2841903" data-attributes="member: 177">If Woody had gone right to the police, this would never have happened <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Politeness should extend beyond the bounds of legal right.&nbsp; WB had the right to hand off the scripts.&nbsp; Mongoose had the right to work with that material, sure.&nbsp; But that doesn't mean the original author doesn't have any rights to gripe about how they go about it.&nbsp; The guy is the basis for what will hopefully be a goodly pile of money for Mongoose.&nbsp; Is it so wrong to expect that they be gracious about it? I mean, really, if you're going to be using the guy's material, it makes sense to actually engage with the author.&nbsp; If, when they'd been given right by the WB, they should probably have said, &quot;JMS, we've beeen given rights to XYZ by WB.&nbsp; We intend to use them in this way.&quot;&nbsp; So, whatever they say later, the guy knows their intent, and can read what the public sees as ad copy.It even makes good business sense.&nbsp;&nbsp; The folks who are going to buy this stuff are B5 fans, who, in general, hold JMS in high esteem.&nbsp; If the market holds the guy as a hero, you don't want to go cheese him off.&nbsp; It looks bad.&nbsp; If he has an ego, it was in Mongoose's best interests to stroke that ego some.&nbsp; It looks like they did not have the foresight to do so, and now it's biting them on the behind.&nbsp; Go figure.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 2841903, member: 177"] If Woody had gone right to the police, this would never have happened :) Politeness should extend beyond the bounds of legal right. WB had the right to hand off the scripts. Mongoose had the right to work with that material, sure. But that doesn't mean the original author doesn't have any rights to gripe about how they go about it. The guy is the basis for what will hopefully be a goodly pile of money for Mongoose. Is it so wrong to expect that they be gracious about it? I mean, really, if you're going to be using the guy's material, it makes sense to actually engage with the author. If, when they'd been given right by the WB, they should probably have said, "JMS, we've beeen given rights to XYZ by WB. We intend to use them in this way." So, whatever they say later, the guy knows their intent, and can read what the public sees as ad copy. It even makes good business sense. The folks who are going to buy this stuff are B5 fans, who, in general, hold JMS in high esteem. If the market holds the guy as a hero, you don't want to go cheese him off. It looks bad. If he has an ego, it was in Mongoose's best interests to stroke that ego some. It looks like they did not have the foresight to do so, and now it's biting them on the behind. Go figure. [/QUOTE]

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