Netflix owns the rights. This isn't the author's family or anyone else. Just a dumb bunch of soulless LA based execs virtue signaling/moralizing in between their coke/hooker binges.
Netflix owns RDSC. RDSC had to authorize changes by Penguin. I'm sure you're excited about the new version, given your confident denunciation that was dead wrong.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/netflix-acquires-rights...