hairy_hen said:
...no one but LFL actually has any legal right to them whatsoever. Believe me, I wish that were otherwise as much as anyone, but it isn't. So when talking about making a film restoration from the kind of materials that Mike has access to, there is no way most of that can be mentioned openly in a public forum...
Sorry, don't mean to go off topic, but this is a question that's been bothering me for a while. It's always been apparent that Lucas owns the rights to Empire and Jedi having funded them himself rather than going through the studios, but doesn't Fox have a say in Star Wars itself? Does Lucasfilm have exclusive control of it as well?
As for the chats, I look forward to sitting in on one, though I doubt I'll have much to contribute other than encouragement. I have precious little expertise in technical matters :)