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Re:Tolkien Estate Wins Court Order to Destroy Fan's 'Lord of... by chasil on Thursday December 21, 2023 @11:55AM (#38723034)
A similar action was taken with the 1922 film Nosferatu, but prints of the film survived.

I would wager that the current work will also avoid destruction.

"Even with several details altered, Stoker's heirs sued over the adaptation, and a court ruling ordered all copies of the film to be destroyed. However, several prints of Nosferatu survived, and the film came to be regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema and the horror genre."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu

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Re:Tolkien Estate Wins Court Order to Destroy Fan's 'Lord of... by wageslave99 on Thursday December 21, 2023 @12:27PM (#38723534)
Thank you! I'm a fan of the Nosferatu type of vampire and didn't know that they were sued by the Stoker Estate!
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Re:Tolkien Estate Wins Court Order to Destroy Fan's 'Lord of... by chasil on Thursday December 21, 2023 @02:18PM (#38725348)
His widow, Florence Balcombe, spent much of her later life enforcing the copyright.

https://swands.medium.com/florence-stoker-the-woman-who-copy...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/history/1692222/bram-stoker-b...

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