Todd is based in the UK and obtained advice from UK lawyers that the sequel would not infringe. The next important issue is the territoriality of copyright law in an unbounded international book market, which makes projects like Todd’s a legal nightmare. Since the universal lynch-pin of all copyright systems is the insulation of ideas, that seems like a chilling overreach of the DMCA. The first is how a proposal can be “infringing material”, and how that judgement can be made when the sequel hasn’t been written yet and is still just a roughly sketched idea. The Sendak case raises some particularly interesting questions. People said, “why didn’t you do Wild Things 2? Wild Things 1 was such a success.” Go to hell. He never wrote a sequel, and once said in an interview: There are others who love to imagine continued stories. There are those authors and readers who want favourite works preserved in their original form.
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