"Artists ought to engage directly with the question of how art is commodified, rather than leaving it entirely for corporations and public advocates to hash it out."

From Bloomberg.com:

Lethem, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author, said he will option his new novel "You Don't Love Me Yet" on May 15 to a filmmaker who agrees to give him 2 percent of the movie's budget as a fee. The sum would be paid when the finished film gets a distributor. The book will be published tomorrow by Doubleday.

Here's the other condition: In an unprecedented move, Lethem wants the filmmaker to release "ancillary" rights -- such as the right to distribute the novel on the Internet or make a stage play based on it -- to the public domain five years after the film's debut. Usually, novelists sell all the rights forever to the filmmaker.