Today I stumbled across an interesting article on this subject. If it’s true, it’s a poor showing by those involved. Attempting to keep a stranglehold on a property with one hand, while with the other making courtroom assertions that one has no right to those properties in the first place to avoid legal repercussions is pretty low.
Anyway, here’s the article:
https://dorkland.blogspot.com/2023/04/hp-lovecraft-vs-public-domain.html