DGHCaretaker
Nargothrond
Sep 21 2024, 9:55pm
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It depends.
Fan edits as we are thinking of them are probably not Fair Use or Transformative so you would be in essence correct.
Personal use is okay, Distribution, even without profit, can get you into trouble, but is often tolerated by the copyright owners so long as there is no brand confusion. Why? Because the owners want to generously honor the fans who literally made the franchise a success. Star Trek fan films went many, many years without issue until one fan crossed the line, forcing corporate policy decisions, and pretty much ruining things for everyone.
Then there's the case of Star Wars (A New Hope) where it takes fan edits to restore the original where Han outright shoots Greedo. The "fan edit" exactly restores the original because Lucas would not release the original, unedited film in a modern format. Legal? Not strictly, but is restorative, changing nothing frame-by-frame from the original, and the needs of the many, in their view, is more righteous than Lucas.
(This post was edited by DGHCaretaker on Sep 21 2024, 9:57pm)
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