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UPDATE: Lucasfilm orders Warner Chappell to remove claim
Good ending to this. Good on whoever in Lucasfilm took action. Anyway, in Star Wars tradition fan passion projects like these have always been supported by Lucasfilm under George Lucas. Some even getting awards.
It got confusing with Warner Chappell being the one directly issuing the claim. I was following this story and discussing it mainly on theforce.net, blu-ray.com, and neogaf. I forgot to update it here.
I thought Disney could reverse this if they wanted to even if they are not the ones who made this claim, they must have some pull here. But I was jaded in light of the James Gunn firing which I still disagree with. In that situation it felt like Marvel wanted to keep him on but Disney wouldn't budge.
Well looks like Lucasfilm had enough pull to get this reversed, while being under Disney meaning Disney must have ok'd it.
So yeah this OP I made was a a bit knee jerk. And I can honestly say this is a pleasant surprise in that I never expected a Lucasfilm helping out and reaching to a fan story coming.
Pathetic. Disney allowed this guy to make this fan film as long as he didn't use it to make revenue. Then the fan film comes out. Fans say it's better than anything Disney Star Wars has done.
Disney then claims the fan film as their own. Now they will profit off of it via ad revenue.
And the mainstream media is not covering this. Pathetic.
Good ending to this. Good on whoever in Lucasfilm took action. Anyway, in Star Wars tradition fan passion projects like these have always been supported by Lucasfilm under George Lucas. Some even getting awards.
It got confusing with Warner Chappell being the one directly issuing the claim. I was following this story and discussing it mainly on theforce.net, blu-ray.com, and neogaf. I forgot to update it here.
I thought Disney could reverse this if they wanted to even if they are not the ones who made this claim, they must have some pull here. But I was jaded in light of the James Gunn firing which I still disagree with. In that situation it felt like Marvel wanted to keep him on but Disney wouldn't budge.
Well looks like Lucasfilm had enough pull to get this reversed, while being under Disney meaning Disney must have ok'd it.
So yeah this OP I made was a a bit knee jerk. And I can honestly say this is a pleasant surprise in that I never expected a Lucasfilm helping out and reaching to a fan story coming.
Pathetic. Disney allowed this guy to make this fan film as long as he didn't use it to make revenue. Then the fan film comes out. Fans say it's better than anything Disney Star Wars has done.
Disney then claims the fan film as their own. Now they will profit off of it via ad revenue.
And the mainstream media is not covering this. Pathetic.
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