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The law should be changed so that copyright reverts to the original author in cases like this.

In this case, Foster was apparently involved in the Star Wars movies as well. Disney should be forced to renegotiate any copyrights and contracts he’s involved with across the franchise.

If that happened, I guarantee you that this would be the last time a big corporation would try to pull this sort of thing off.

[edit: I wonder if the current law would support this. Disney’s in violation of the contract that assigned them copyright in the first place; surely invalidating the entire contract is a reasonable remedy.]



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