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Tolkien tangle

If anyone wants to probe the "chilling effects" of copyright lawsuits and the nasty techniques IP lawyers use against writers and publishers, feel free to contact me. I fought the Tolkien estate for over a year for the right to publish my Lord of the Rings chronology, Untangling Tolkien (available on Amazon.com). I won a nice out-of-court settlement agreement that lets me talk about everything but the settlement. And I love to talk about what's wrong with the current system.

-- Mike Perry, Inkling Books, Seattle

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