zombie84 said:
Essentially... Lucas produced a million dollar fan-edit, since they were other people's films, even though he had a hand in them. Like all fan edits, his version is good in places, bad in places, with some changes that are appreciated and others that are bewildering, but at the end of the day you would never want them to replace the original.
That's very well put. I guess if things went George's way back in '88, he'd have been sued in '97.