The SFWA is asking Disney to pay Foster back royalties as well as any future royalties, cease publication until new contracts are signed and pay all royalties owed to Foster, or to cease publication for ever and pay all back royalties to the writer.
Disney has been accused of failing to pay royalties to the acclaimed author Alan Dean Foster for his bestselling novelisations of films including Star Wars and Alien, in a fight over copyright that is being described as unprecedented and grotesque.
But the science-fiction author said Disney had not paid him royalties on the books, all of which are still in print and earning money for the media giant.
John Scalzi called on Disney to “pay up”, Cory Doctorow called Foster’s case “a gross injustice”, and NK Jemisin said it was “grotesque”.