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That meant that when Willingham got the "default" treatment, it was progressively farther from what his contract entitled him to.

The company repeatedly - and conveniently - forgot that Willingham had the final say over the destiny of his books. They illegally sublicensed a game adapted from his books, and then, when he objected, tried to make renegotiating his deal a condition of being properly compensated for this theft.

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

Even after he won that fight, the company tried to cheat him and then cover it up by binding him to a nondisclosure agreement.

This was the culmination of a string of wage-thefts in which the company misreported his royalties and had to be dragged into paying him his due. When the company "practically dared" Willingham to sue ("knowing it would be a long and debilitating process") he snapped.

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

Rather than fight Warner, Willingham has embarked on what nostr:npub1eyszugs46q4ngd8tgeysnkwve20n9wewj42lac9cp7s2jrk52u2qce6x02 calls an act of "absolute table-flip badassery" - he has announced that *Fables* will hereafter be in the public domain, available for anyone to adapt commercially, in works that compete with whatever DC might be offering.

Now, this is *huge*, and it's also *shrewd*.

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