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What are your opinions on fan-editing?

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Lashiec:
IIRC, the Dune movie suffered massive cuts from its original length, which was something like 7 hours. As always, if you want the best version, get the book :) (that also goes for that Phantom Menace thing).

dsp:
...as it's obviously violating copyright just to start editing someone's work without their consent.
-nudone (September 26, 2008, 03:07 AM)
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Surely changing something at this level doesn't infringe copyright unless the fan attempts to go commercial with their version - then they are in copyright infringement terriory. Maybe the owners could bring some lawsuit if the original work was brought into disrepute or its or the owners reputation was damaged in some way, but is that going to happen with a fanedit?

40hz:
Surely changing something at this level doesn't infringe copyright
-dsp (October 08, 2008, 06:47 PM)
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Actually... it does.

Whether or not the copyright holder decides to pursue it is a different matter.

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