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The Hello and welcome to Brokeromics.

Now, in this episode, I'm absolutely delighted to be joined by sci-fi legend, Neil Asher,

who has a best-selling author, whole shelves devoted to him in Waterstones,

a whole bunch of created worlds. None of them been turned into films yet because he sensibly

thinks that Hollywood is a bit silly. And perhaps his most redeeming feature is he does like

the Lotus Eaters. So, Neil, thank you very much for coming on.

Thank you for inviting me. Yes. It's very kind of you to drive across the country to

come here from Sunny Essex. Sunny Essex, yeah, right, okay. But I had a notion this morning.

I had a notion, and maybe you can help me out with it. Because I tweaked

the other day that James Bond is going out of copyright in nine years. And I was thinking

about that. And I was like, well, nine years, that's about when AI movie making is going to be

like a decent thing. So invariably, in nine years, we're going to get a whole

suave of fan-made James Bond films that come up.

Quite likely, yeah.

Now, the thing is, though, that's going to be out of copyright.

So it's going to be fan things that are going to be popping up on YouTube,

all that kind of stuff.

And it occurs to me that somebody like yourself, who's got a deep IP background,

that's going to be about as valuable as the GDP of Lichtenstein when they start making AI movies,

because you're actually owned the rights to all of that stuff.

Not quite.

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