----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Sullivan" <
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 6:43
PM Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: Re: Recycling
> However, aren't there literary "works for hire" (the
way many musicians,
> artists, journalists, etc, were and are screwed)?
For instance, who
> holds the copyright on the post-Pendleton
Executioner books? Or other
> series, for that matter? Who holds the copyrights on
all the
> pseudonymous Brett Halliday/Mike Shaynes? (Does
Dennis Lynds own the
> copyright to all of his works or just to those for
characters he
> created?) I have no idea about the answers to any of
these questions,
> but I bet it's the publisher, not the hired
writer.
>
> Don't we have a few writers here who have done
pseudonymous work for
> name franchises like Shayne? Who owns the stories
you wrote?
>
> Mark
All the Executioners after the original run from Pinnacle
Books are copyrighted by the publisher, Worldwide Library.
Can't get to the books right now to check, but I assume all
the Mike Shayne novels by Lynds and others are copyrighted by
Brett Halliday. I know all the Shayne stories I wrote for
MSMM were copyrighted by Halliday. So it seems reasonable
that the stories are now owned by Davis Dresser's heirs,
whoever they are.
Best, James Reasoner
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