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Chapter 1, page 4. Transcript below the cut!
Panel 1: Alice is on Skype (or this world’s equivalent) talking with her agent, Ben.
BEN: Okay, Alice. Our lawyers talked with their lawyers, and they have offered a deal.
ALICE: What’s the offer?
Panel 2: A close-up of Ben’s face on the screen.
BEN: If you wait until after the new trilogy –
Panel 3: Alice gets testy, with Barry still on an even keel.
ALICE: That’s in six years!
BEN: – if you wait, and give them final approval over it?
BEN: They’ll consider letting you publish it.
Panel 4: Alice looks out her window, at the billboard of Princess Nebula. As if on cue, it shouts a catchphrase.
NEBULA: Ever onwards!
ALICE: And if I publish it now and tell them to go suck an egg?
BEN: Then, they’re going to claim that since they own the rights to the digital likeness of Brandy Waterfield…
Panel 5: A close up of Alice’s face, as she looks out the window.
BEN: … they are custodians of her legacy, and can determine on her behalf what’s defamation and what isn’t.
ALICE: That’s…
ALICE: … they just own her likeness, though….
Panel 6: A close-up of Alice’s eye. In it, we can see Princess Nebula – played by Brandy Waterfield, or a simulation thereof – reflected.
ALICE: … they don’t own her.
BEN: They’re prepared to argue they do.
BEN: It’s Dust Media, Alice. They play to win.
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