Re:U.S. seeks 15 years for Elizabeth Holmes over Theranos fraud
by coldtea on Saturday November 12, 2022 @02:35PM
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>He never actually had the rights to the book, because you can't hold copyright on something just by saying you wrote it.
Obviously you can, if you negotiate it with the ghostwriter - who would just be your employee anyway or even be a team of writers, so all the copyrights can remain with you - same way Marvel has the copyright for stuff people wrote for them.
Re:U.S. seeks 15 years for Elizabeth Holmes over Theranos fraud
by sidewndr46 on Saturday November 12, 2022 @04:28PM
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So you think the publisher assigned copyright to a guy with a huge liability settlement against him just so he could immediately assign it back to them?
Rather than the obvious "here sign this form that says we can publish a book about this and put your name on it"?
Re:U.S. seeks 15 years for Elizabeth Holmes over Theranos fraud
by coldtea on Sunday November 13, 2022 @07:13AM
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I'm saying that the book could be his, or his agent's, initiative, not the publisher, and he might have even shopped around for publishers.
Re:U.S. seeks 15 years for Elizabeth Holmes over Theranos fraud
by sidewndr46 on Sunday November 13, 2022 @10:07AM
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Except the facts are well known. The ghost writer who was commissioned by the publisher has even talked about writing the book.
A bankruptcy judge later transferred the rights from the publisher to the Goldman family. Why I have no idea. But it isn't like it was "taken" from Mr. Simpson or he "had to give" the proceeds. He got his money from the publisher and later a bankruptcy judge decided the publisher could be parted with their income stream.