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Why Star Wars Should be Left to the Fans

Posted by samzenpus on from the don't-make-us-shoot-first dept.

Aguazul writes "The BBC has an interesting take on George Lucas's meddling with our memories: 'Fans of Star Wars are not happy. Someone has been tampering with their movie history.' They speculate on who really owns a piece of art. Even the artist doesn't really know what he's created, and a work doesn't become 'something' until given value by an audience: 'the artist is merely the medium for his or her work.' Many people contributed to the Star Wars trilogy. Is Lucas' over-inflated idea of his own importance in the process the reason he is stopping people seeing the unmodified originals?"

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  1. Noooooooooo! by johnwbyrd · · Score: -1, Troll

    "And by denying the public access to a work of art that they helped create is not within his rights, even though he owns the rights."

    I'd like to mark the quoted article, this Slashdot post, and all follow-up messages as "Troll," please. The article was written specifically to be controversial and generate discussion; the article was reposted on Slashdot for the same reason; and there will be plenty of post activity on here for that reason as well.

    But the honest to Jebus bottom line is that nobody gives a crap which version has Darth saying NOOOO and which one does not.

    Let's get Slashdot back to reviewing Linux distros and making spurious legal arguments. Thanks very much.