Lucas Releases Clips Explicitly for Mashups
Posted by cmdln on May 28th, 2007
I think this is mostly wonderful news. I do have some questions, though. Will the format be proprietary? The mention of custom editing software leads me to believe that it will, a simple fact that will restrict certain freedoms right away. They are allowing posting of the finished product to any number of sites, so it could be worse. Lucas is still exercising a certain right to censor, one for which I do not blame him. However, that is already two limitations, reasonable as they may be, that removes this from the ideal play it may have otherwise been. In Lucas’ favor, unlike past projects, the permissions granted go well beyond fair use and it is about original clips from his work, not new works based on his characters and settings, so he does genuinely deserve a good amount of credit in my opinion.