Imagine the ta'do if Lucasfilm pressed a fan edit like JasonN's or Ady's without giving them credit or pay.

Well pressing that's never going to happen, but a more realistic scenerio is a what if Lucasfilm continues their avenue of allowing people to edit the movies on starwars.com (that mashup thing) which eventually turns into the inevitable, make your own fan edit and share via starwars.com, and they use JasonN's or Ady's as the example feature.

For a corporation it makes sense to set up shop in other countries to get away from issues like this. (it's cheaper not just because of labor) Digital eMation Inc. (http://www.emation.co.kr/) can be more lax in their lawyerly clearance issues, because overseas means less sees. Someone wrote that the 3dmesh in question is on screen for 20 seconds over three shots. Besides the fans, there's no one to support this online creator. As Fractalsponge has said, he's less concerned with the reuse, he's flattered in a way, but when he created that 3dmesh he had one issue when making it freely available to the public. Just give credit. Family Guy did not do this, it's shitty, but there's no where to go for compliance to the creators wishes except the court of public appeals and it's hard to get an issue like this out there. sucks big time, and adding insult to injury it's has been done twice to Fractalsponge by the main corporate sponsored creator.

Then to rub it in our faces some more, the official SW blog blogs about the after party for this Family Guy episode: http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/index.php/2009/12/14/macfarlanes-family-guy-star-wars-party/

and when you attempt to post a blog comment about this Fractalsponge issue, they don't approve the post.

Control it's fan-tas-tic.