silverwheel said:

CatBus said:

EDIT: This means that IMO fan edits are EXACTLY the same as the Special Editions, by every moral measure except fraud.

Considering that Lucas didn't direct ESB or ROTJ, I would argue that those Special Editions are rather morally questionable...

Well that's the fraud part, and Star Wars doesn't get off the hook either. Fans can edit ESB or ROTJ and there's no problem with that because they don't claim to be the real thing. If Lucas didn't pretend that the edited version was the real thing, there'd be no fraud on his end either.