michaelkirschner said:
Is anybody worried about Disney? As much as we are angry at George Lucas for screwing up Star Wars you do have to give him credit for not taking legal action against his fans. Now that a major corporation without its history based mostly on Star Wars has taken over I worry that Disney won't think twice before bringing the hammer down
Lucasfilm will remain basically autonomous, and I assume it will retain its own legal department with its own policies.
Lucas and his lawyers didn't ignore us out of magnanimity, they ignored us because in the larger scheme of things, we just don't matter that much. I don't think there's been a single studio crackdown on a fan edit since Superman II, and even then WB failed to suppress it because it spread to Usenet and BitTorrent. And that was what, 2005?
In short, I don't think the stakes have changed at all.