Just to clarify...
From the US Copyright Office:
"WHO MAY PREPARE A DERIVATIVE WORK?
Only the owner of copyright in a work has the right to prepare, or to authorize someone else to create, a new version of that work."
In this case, that would be George Lucas.
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From the US Copyright Office:
"WHO MAY PREPARE A DERIVATIVE WORK?
Only the owner of copyright in a work has the right to prepare, or to authorize someone else to create, a new version of that work."
In this case, that would be George Lucas.
ned
I know this is the case, because there was a lawsuit brought up by the studios against people creating "edited" versions of existing DVDs (removing swear words or violent content.) They were coming up with a DVD playback system that would have "scripts of actual DVDs, and would somehow overlay graphic material, or bleep out offensive terms. This effort was headed by a church group, but the studios said they had no right to alter the films in any way, shape or form. I never heard the outcome of this case. Anyone else remember what I'm talking about. It was all over the news many, many months ago.