Comment by GuB-42
6 days ago
In Europe, Tintin is under copyright until 2053 (death + 70 years).
And the rightsholders (Tintinimaginatio, previously Moulinsart) are very aggressive about it, even more so than Disney. They don't have the lobbying power of Disney, but they are going to do everything in their power to protect and possibly overstep their rights. It includes using trademark laws and publishing new Tintin adventures against the will of the original author as an attempt to renew their copyright.
If he sold his rights then it's not really against his wishes anymore.
“It appears, from a 1942 document… that Hergé gave publishing rights for the books of the adventures of Tintin to publisher Casterman so Moulinsart is not the one to decide who can use material from the books,”
( in Dutch )
https://www.livreshebdo.fr/sites/default/files/assets/docume...
He died. So pedantically you can say he doesn't have any wishes any more, but it's clear they meant that it's against what he wanted when alive.
Well he chose not to make those wishes known in his will apparently, or in any of the contracts which assigned his IP to others.
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Silly me, I thought there was ethics beyond The Profit Motive.
The author owns the copyright unless they transfer it. His transference of those rights shows that he was motivated by profit.