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George Ellenburg (he/him/his) @gme@bofh.social

Leave it to #Disney to never pass up an opportunity to continuously milk a franchise every single chance they get.

I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't Disney's attempt to reset the clock on the film's #Copyright term. It's been ... forty-eight years.

Considering that #StarWars was released in 1977, it's Copyright term was under pre-1978 rules which were 28 years initially, then a 67 year extension if the Copyright holder filed for an extension in 2005. That would grant them a Copyright term of 95 years as of today.

Let's compare that to what the Copyright term will be for this re-release of StarWars.

Are you sitting down?

It will be for another 120 fucking years!

So that's the real reason Disney is re-releasing StarWars.

It has nothing to do with the fans, and everything to do with Disney exploiting a #loophole to make the Copyright term for StarWars to be 168 fucking years. (Original 48 years where we are now, plus the additional 120 years they will get when they re-relase the film.)

Fuck Disney!

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/04/12/2134212/original-1977-star-wars-cut-will-be-shown-at-a-theater-for-first-time-in-decades