Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
So he owns it in any way you could imagine.

No, Go-Mer, we've been over this. There's a legitimate and persistant school of thought about public art which holds that it's owned by the public. Many artists ascribe to this school of thought, as well as much of the public. The law of any particular land goes back and forth on this ... sometimes agreeing that public art is publically owned, and sometimes (as currently) holding that public art is title-holder owned.

Yes, Lucas holds title to the Star Wars films. He has exclusive legal rights to use them as toilet paper if he so chooses. But that's hardly owning it any way imaginable.

Another very popular way to imagine ownership of a movie is to ascribe it to the director as the prime filmmaker, and not the producer as the title holder. There are many ways to legitimately imagine ownership of the films by persons other than George Lucas. If you choose not to imagine it any of those ways, that's your perrogative. But don't be so brazen as to broadly state that your way of imagining must be everyone's way.

It's not, Go-Mer.