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Huzzah! He liveth! :-D

Glad to hear you're okay, zombie. :-)

Blog post about copyright and Star Wars.  (via: clubjade.net)

http://blog.cgpgrey.com/copyright-forever-less-one-day/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4&feature=player_embedded

*Spoiler - Final Thought*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But, imagine for a moment, if copyright still worked as first intended.

In 2011 the whole of the original Star Wars trilogy – all of its artwork, its characters, its music – would have left copyright protection and been available to aspiring directors and writers to build upon and make their own versions of.

There would be a treasure trove of new Star Wars stories for fans to enjoy.

But as long as the current copyright laws remain as they are, no living person will ever get to tell a Darth Vader story, or a Harry Potter Story, or a Hobbit Story or any other story that matters to them, that the author or, when after their death, their company, disagrees with.

^I pray for the death of current copyright laws.

^ Praying does shit, write a letter to your Congress Person, vote, etc.

^But I'm not American. =P

Well, well... look whose site made the news today... ;-)

You're famous, now, zombie!

I'm glad someone reposted that page, it's one of the better discoveries made (although None was actually the one who dug that up).

zombie wrote: I'm glad someone reposted that page, it's one of the better discoveries made (although None was actually the one who dug that up).

Well quotes were out there, you knew of the speech, but the full details were surprising on some level. (I still say it was a smoke screen to get rights to squelch derivative works.)  What I don't understand is why these government documents are not already online... stupid copyright system is keeping knowledge locked up.  The internet was suppose to bring the library into the home, yet we've still got to go to the library... /rant  The site is having an impact, so kudos.  (i'd use the Obi AotC 'Good Job' line but it's kinda tainted, maybe things are that dire...)

Do you have stats on the site, zombie?  Curious how big of a spike, in the last few days, and are people reading other articles?

Any chance of the SE article premiering close to BR day, doubleofive?  People should get a real kick out of the Cinefex quote.

doubleofive wrote: I'm not sure. I kind of forgot about it until recently. ;-)

No rush, things happen when then can, this is a long tail thing.  You've got a full plate with these BR changes, and those eventually lead back to the SE.  The quote is in the http://savestarwars.com/doasisay.html page so people will eventually paste that link around.

There's an update on the BDs now. I used None's link too.

Phil Tippet on the Special Editions: "They're shit."

Brilliant.

The anecdote about Lucas and Marquand is priceless: :-D

GL: "Well, did you see Benji?"

RM: "No, George, I didn't see Benji."

So apropos of nothing that it made me chuckle.

Comments on the new news.html

they are indeed real, and various insiders and even some official Lucasfilm employees have confirmed them.

Official Lucasfilm employees sounds a little weak.  Here's the confirmation which went to the NYTimes (and I don't think anyone else)

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/lucasfilm-confirms-change-to-blu-ray-release-of-return-of-the-jedi/

On Wednesday, a press representative for Lucasfilm confirmed that this change will be included in the Blu-ray release, writing in an e-mail: “Yes — Darth says NO.”

So switch to maybe "they are indeed real, as confirmed by Lucasfilm to the NYTimes." (as a link)

I've been on a ESB Luke Trampoline kick of late, could that get tacked onto the end of:

So is Obi Wan's shorting out saber, so is ESB's Luke trampoline head.

The soundtrack also seems very similar. Although Matthew Wood says he re-mixed Star Wars from scratch using the raw sound effects, this is suspect.

None of the articles (i've read) where Woods talks do they specify WHEN this from scratch re-mixing work took place.  I think it was done for the 2004.  So they're not lying, it took place, just not explicitly for this set.

the "humdinger" glitch

The SW community barely knows of this, so could point people here: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Humdinger-Analysis-Thread-Glitch-Cryptography-or-Steganography/topic/13030/

The rocks disappear in later shots too.

A pic of this would be nice.  Especially for the continuity people.

The Sounds of Star Wars

Being nice could point to the SW.com page: (it's a very nice book)

http://www.starwars.com/vault/books/sounds_of_sw_c5/index.html

or Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sounds-Star-Wars-J-Rinzler/dp/0811875466

Remember how much flak that got, and it became a whole internet meme with entire websites and mockumentaries about how embarassingly dumb it was?

One of my fav was "The United States of Noooo!!!" which years later would turn out to be by the RedLetterMedia guy.  http://redlettermedia.com/shorts/the-united-states-of-noooo/

Remember, eventually all those OT deleted scenes on here--the real reason you want the set--will be on Youtube.

Cut youtube.  Jump right to renting or buying used.

Maybe add Conclusion:  before

Conclusion:

So, just to remind, this is what you will be getting this September.

Visual clue of the wrap up.

Maybe i've been reading about these changes a lot, but at some point mentioning so many of them seems like promotion.

The same colouring problems of 2004

add a link to the video on the sites youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWRs0ZD8ay4

The pics are not coded to open into a new window.  "<a target="new" href="LINK"><img></a>"

I'm going to putz around with the copyright link part.  post that up later.

Trust me, that interview will be an entire news update once I give the BD stuff some breathing room.

toho-scope wrote:

http://www.movies.com/movie-news/phil-tippett-star-wars/4324

Video: http://collider.com/alamo-drafthouse-jurassic-park-screening-poster-aaron-horkey/112532/#more-112532