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Re: Rancho Obi-Wan
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#303525 - 01/30/13 10:56 PM
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> http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/darth-vader-yoda-and-lightsabers-oh-my-images/6396455
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> "With more than 90,000 items on display, the museum is a must-visit for true "Star
> Wars" fans given that it houses countless one-of-a-kind items, from special
> promotional objects to fan-made projects to bootleg items."
Steve Sansweet was head of Lucasfilm's Fan Relations for many years, and recently retired. However, the bulk of his collection was complete before his employment: in fact, it helped get him the job.
I once had the honor of emailing him: During his tenure as head of Lucasfilm's Fan Relations, I had the bright idea to start up a project to do a third-party open-source freeware recreation of the Star Wars holochess game "Dejarik" (depicted in Episode IV: A New Hope) since no commercial game had yet done it - and I'm pretty sure no game has a decent recreation of it still. Anyhow, to do that, I needed character models, and decent HD photos of what was used in the movie as playing pieces. Guess who collected the playing pieces. (EDIT: Actually there's a few of them in image 7 of the image gallery: http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/darth...ner#photopaging) ... so, following an email to his personal email account (not his lucasfilm.com account) outlining my request and explaining my intentions, I received an email from some lawyer explaining that their next move would be a cease-and-desist should I continue my "research" to that end.
We've since met in passing at some convention. (New York Comic Con 2009, IIRC)
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Re: Rancho Obi-Wan
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#303555 - 01/31/13 07:37 AM
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> I once had the honor of emailing him: During his tenure as head of Lucasfilm's Fan
> Relations, I had the bright idea to start up a project to do a third-party
> open-source freeware recreation of the Star Wars holochess game "Dejarik" (depicted
> in Episode IV: A New Hope) since no commercial game had yet done it - and I'm pretty
> sure no game has a decent recreation of it still. Anyhow, to do that, I needed
> character models, and decent HD photos of what was used in the movie as playing
> pieces. Guess who collected the playing pieces. (EDIT: Actually there's a few of them
> in image 7 of the image gallery:
> http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/darth...ner#photopaging
> ) ... so, following an email to his personal email account (not his lucasfilm.com
> account) outlining my request and explaining my intentions, I received an email from
> some lawyer explaining that their next move would be a cease-and-desist should I
> continue my "research" to that end.
You seem surprisingly unbitter, considering what a shitty response you got. It seems like a personal "hey I can't help you and you should probably drop that project" response would have been just as effective.
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Re: Rancho Obi-Wan
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#303562 - 01/31/13 06:25 PM
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Re: Rancho Obi-Wan
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#303616 - 02/01/13 05:06 PM
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> Private tours only. $200 for 2 people! Yikes!
For us poor folks that can't cough up the dough:
http://zigg.be/pot
Edited by Andrew (02/01/13 05:26 PM)
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Re: Rancho Obi-Wan
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#303625 - 02/01/13 06:38 PM
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> You seem surprisingly unbitter, considering what a shitty response you got. It seems
> like a personal "hey I can't help you and you should probably drop that project"
> response would have been just as effective.
Well, it's like 14 years ago at this point... and somewhere along the line it dawned on me how very few skills I had to create an open-source game engine. (These days, I gather some of this work can easily be collected together from various projects.) At best, I could maybe cheerlead such a project, find the necessary content to inspire the project, and draw people with the right skills together. And it was also a reality check that there were larger IP concerns involved. I dunno, as far as I'm concerned if you treat their intellectual property "with respect" and do not profit at all, I don't see what the big deal would have been. Maybe these days would be different, since the culture of sampling/remixing/deriving has grown in popularity. Oh well.
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#303793 - 02/04/13 04:40 PM
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