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Originally Posted by haertig
If Disney's position is that you can acquire assets without obligations, does that mean it's OK for people to obtain Disney's assets (e.g., movies) without the obligation to pay for them?
What Disney has done, if the report is true, is ethically reprehensible. Disney has zero cause to complain if they are the target of equally reprehensible actions. If a pirate is pirated by another pirate, do I care? While pirating them myself is not on the radar, neither is lifting a finger to discourage others from doing so. You reap what you sow.
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You technically can acquire assets without obligations. Companies do it all the time. Since the works in question are works for hire, we are talking contract rather than copyright. It really comes down to what Disney bought when they bought LucasFilm.
Disney bought LucasFilm in 2012. I's late 2020. I suspect there is something more than meets the eye here. Keep in mind that Foster wrote the novelization for The Force Awakens in 2015. Why has it taken this long for it to become public and why hasn't he filed a law suit?