Just to clarify Williarob: the technicolor print (whose screenshots were posted) you were working on was person 2’s or person 3’s? And you’re saying that it was, in fact, ethically obtained for use in TN-1’s project (meaning the owner was okay with you having the scan and using it for release in your project)?
The physical print belongs to Person #3. We have spoken to him in the past too, and at the time he had no interest in any sort of digital version of his print. The impression we got was that he didn’t care one way or the other what was done to it - after all, once it’s cleaned it shouldn’t be obvious to anyone except those who have worked on it, which Technicolor print(s) were used. What mattered most was Person #3’s anonymity.
When Mike talks about Person #3 freaking out, that was after Poita had posted a single frame on OT that used the original filename, which contained his initials and could therefore perhaps have been traced it back to him. That had nothing to do with us.
Now I can’t say for sure whether or not he approves of TN1 having the print, perhaps he doesn’t, but if that is the case we were not informed of that when we received it and we haven’t heard from him recently. If he had contacted us and requested we not use the scan of his print, we would of course have respected his wishes. Presumably Mike has told him about all this, but we still haven’t had a request from Person #3 asking us not to continue.
And given that, the only thing that is stopping that project from proceeding is wanting to not diminish the upcoming Legacy pitch to Disney?
Correct. If we proceeded with the project and it ended up somehow preventing Mike’s pitch succeeding… Well, nobody wants that.