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• Sir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,761Chief of Staff

  February 2013

  kboo3 wrote:

  Can sb explain how that works with authors rihts in Bond novels...? I mean - who has the right to the 007 character, can anyone write Bond novel and publish it or do the person have to have a licence or smth like that?

  
  The rights to the published Bond character belong to Ian Fleming Publications....you will not be allowed to publish a Bond novel without express permission from them.

  YNWA 97
  
• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent

  February 2013

  Sir Miles wrote:

  kboo3 wrote:

  Can sb explain how that works with authors rihts in Bond novels...? I mean - who has the right to the 007 character, can anyone write Bond novel and publish it or do the person have to have a licence or smth like that?

  
  The rights to the published Bond character belong to Ian Fleming Publications....you will not be allowed to publish a Bond novel without express permission from them.

  
  Yes, you're on a hiding to nothing there, methinks. 8-)

  "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).