Tolkien Estate blocks new Tolkien book

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Originally Posted by davem

Or, as I've been arguing all along - the Estate is using Copyright law as a quick, cheap & easy way to protect their privacy by preventing the publication of family documents. If a genuine issue of invasion of privacy is involved then privacy laws exist under which this matter could be dealt with, but it seems that the Estate don't feel able to take that route (possibly because the individuals concerned are dead & they wouldn't succeed), so they've resorted to Copyright law as the only option.

The flaw in your argument, davem is that not all the members of the family are dead.

As Calcifer's statement from the Estate says,

As the guardian of these rights and of the privacy of the Tolkien family

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