This story is fascinating.

"during the contract negotiations for the new issues, their legal negotiators tried to make it a condition of the deal that the work be done as work for hire, effectively throwing the property irrevocably into the hands of DC. When that didn’t work their excuse was, “Sorry, we didn’t read your contract going into these negotiations. We thought we owned it.”

#Fables #BillWillingham
https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the