Who is actually and currently owning the copyright of both The Hobbit, and The Lord of The Rings?
If nobody is, is it up for sale or for auction?
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Apr 29 2022, 05:39 AM #1
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owning the copyright?
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Apr 29 2022, 08:19 AM #2
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Its complex but on a very basic level. The Saul Zaentz company under the name Middle-Earth Enterprises (formerly Tolkien Enterprises) own the rights to movies, merchandising and stage plays based on The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The rights to the books are still with the Tolkien Estate.
There was some movement around Feb of this year where it was being reported that The Saul Zaentz company where looking to sell off their rights but I haven't seen anything come of it since then.Last edited by Ellemere; Apr 29 2022 at 09:07 AM.
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Apr 30 2022, 12:07 PM #3
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Amazon have since purchased the media rights to The Hobbit, apparently. Things are still a bit complicated with LOTR.
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Apr 30 2022, 01:18 PM #4
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Ahh thanks for the update. I seemed to have missed that. I have to say an Amazon Hobbit series sounds dreadful though. Originally Posted by Radhruin_EU
"The internet is a bubble dominated by the loudest, most unrepresentative voices; an infinitesimally small minority of a minority which, deaf to reason and the opinions of others, deludes itself that somehow it is the voice of the majority. An infinite echo chamber of shrieking, witless banality."
"Everyone draws the moral line of what's acceptable just slightly below what they're actually doing."
"Er gwaetha pawb a phopeth. Ry'n ni yma o hyd."
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