Ruling that the fan’s unauthorized book violated copyright protections, a judge barred him from distributing it and ordered him to destroy all electronic and physical copies of it.
To anyone wondering, this doesn’t seem to be a a case of the estate pointlessly attacking fan-projects like Nintendo does. The article says the guy actually tried to publish the book and profit off of it, then he attempted to sue Amazon for infringing on his ideas… Not sure how he was expecting that to turn out
I believe he was getting sued by the estate, then decided to counter sue, which isn’t exactly uncommon in similar stories, but… yeah, I’m pretty sure the Tolkien estate can pay for better lawyers
To anyone wondering, this doesn’t seem to be a a case of the estate pointlessly attacking fan-projects like Nintendo does. The article says the guy actually tried to publish the book and profit off of it, then he attempted to sue Amazon for infringing on his ideas… Not sure how he was expecting that to turn out
I believe he was getting sued by the estate, then decided to counter sue, which isn’t exactly uncommon in similar stories, but… yeah, I’m pretty sure the Tolkien estate can pay for better lawyers