Lord Boron
Sr Member
A smart move on thier part. The "nothing to see here" approach.
Disney's tolerance towards projects like these will boarder in slim to none.
They bought LFL almost three and a half years ago so I'm pretty sure at some point during that period they have been made aware of fan preservations and edits. Perhaps they're taking the same passive approach that the company had under Uncle George for the many years prior to the buyout.
I have a hard time believing Disney is really worried about this.
Sure, it's copyright infringement. Possibly even piracy.
But when Disney releases the OOT on blue ray, everybody who downloaded this - heck, everyone who worked on it - everyone with bootleg copies of the OOT, is going to buy Disney's DVDs. Disney knows this. They won't lose any money.
I have a hard time believing Disney is really worried about this.
Sure, it's copyright infringement. Possibly even piracy.
But when Disney releases the OOT on blue ray, everybody who downloaded this - heck, everyone who worked on it - everyone with bootleg copies of the OOT, is going to buy Disney's DVDs. Disney knows this. They won't lose any money.
Ditto.
Also, Disney has found out that litigating against fans is counter-productive, and expensive just to get some guy or gal in Sheboygan to quit making models of the Disney Nautilus. In the 70s they used to send out Cease and Desist letter by the bushelful and scared the crap out of people. That was the era when they went after the Child Care place that had Disney characters painted on their building. Disney got so much bad publicity about that one that they put their lawyers back on the chain in the backyard for a while. Since then they have only let the dogs loose on really egregious pirating, or character theft (mostly in the Asian markets), and left fans alone for the most part.
Harmy can (arguably) survive because he's not really widely known. There hasn't been national news coverage of his stuff, so Disney -- if it doesn't want to go after him because, really, who cares -- can at least sort of claim "We didn't know" if they change their minds later. When something hits the national news, though, they have to shut it down.