Excuse me if I’m missing something, but since no one who “owns” a print of Star Wars actually legally “owns” it (since they all belong to Fox/Disney), why exactly is the person who loaned the Technicolor scan upset? I can understand if he or she is worroed because a scan of that print could be traced back and thus face legal repercussions from Fox/Disney. But if it’s something other than that…well, frankly: what right does that person have to keep such a thing to him or herself when none of what we’re talking about here is strictly “legal”?
Because the existence of any of these releases depends entirely on collaboration and trust. Officially no-one really owns the prints, true enough, but if taking without permission was considered fair game then no-one would ever lend prints to those with the ability to scan them and all these projects would be significantly poorer, if they even got off the ground at all.
NB/ I don’t know for a fact that a scan was used without permission on purpose- I’m speaking generally.
On another note, nice one Williarob, good to here we’ll be getting updates on a new version 😃