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How does Chapter VII say studios treated a writer's title, and which statements are the authors' claims, hypothetical examples or reported cases?

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The authors say writers have complained when editors changed the titles of scripts already accepted and paid for, that editors and directors used to take liberties but that now a studio's change of title 'usually' has a good reason, and they illustrate with a hypothetical (a company featuring only women stars adds a male star, re-works the story and re-titles it, without telling the author). They advise writers to learn each company's lead policy and not to give a script a title that points to a lead of the wrong sex for that company, while keeping the story acceptable to any editor. They also claim companies re-use unoriginal titles because of authors' poor ones. The one actual retitle instance found (in a cross-reference to Ch. V, not a book-wide search) is a footnote on the authors' own specimen. The chapter says nothing about contract, payment for titles or credit.

The authors say writers have complained when editors changed the titles of scripts already accepted and paid for, that editors and directors used to take liberties but that now a studio's change of title 'usually' has a good reason, and they illustrate with a hypothetical (a company featuring only women stars adds a male star, re-works the story and re-titles it, without telling the author). They advise writers to learn each company's lead policy and not to give a script a title that points to a lead of the wrong sex for that company, while keeping the story acceptable to any editor. They also claim companies re-use unoriginal titles because of authors' poor ones. The one actual retitle instance found (in a cross-reference to Ch. V, not a book-wide search) is a footnote on the authors' own specimen. The chapter says nothing about contract, payment for titles or credit. Curator qualifications: Studio retitling claims are undated authors' statements; the retitle example is explicitly hypothetical ('Let us suppose'). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] The authors say writers have complained when editors changed the titles of scripts already accepted and paid for, that editors and directors used to take liberties but that now a studio's change of title 'usually' has a good reason, and they illustrate with a hypothetical (a company featuring only women stars adds a male star, re-works the story and re-titles it, without telling the author). They advise writers to learn each company's lead policy and not to give a script a title that points to a lead of the wrong sex for that company, while keeping the story acceptable to any editor. They also claim companies re-use unoriginal titles because of authors' poor ones. The one actual retitle instance found (in a cross-reference to Ch. V, not a book-wide search) is a footnote on the authors' own specimen. The chapter says nothing about contract, payment for titles or credit. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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