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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 285106" data-attributes="member: 134">trash80 and Narc0lep5y have this spot on. This is not a video game only thing either, as it applies to any license. Here's a fun one...20th Century Fox owned Star Wars: A New Hope, but Lucas owned the rights to all the sequels and merchandising. Fox only had distribution rights. When Disney bought LucasFilm, they got Empire, Jedi, and the prequels, but Fox still retained the distribution rights and ownership to A New Hope, which kinda sorta screws up putting everything into a box set. Agreements were made, one of which was to remove the 20th Century Fox logo from the front of the movies and just have it be the LucasFilm logo (which sucks because I need the Fox fanfare at the beginning of the movie, dammit!). Well now that Disney has purchased Fox, guess what they own outright?So mslcommand, if you had your way, (prior to the Disney purchase) Fox would still be able to put out DVDs, Blu Rays, and digital downloads, yes? I mean they made the first movie (Lucas self funded the others) and owned the rights to it, why should they not be able to continue making money off of it? Because that makes no business sense. But again, all of that is moot now that George sold everything but that to Disney, and then they bought Fox. Now it's all tidy again with rights ownership.For full details of the initial Fox deal with Lucas, read this...<a href="https://deadline.com/2015/12/star-wars-franchise-george-lucas-historic-rights-deal-tom-pollock-1201669419/" target="_blank">https://deadline.com/2015/12/star-wars-franchise-george-lucas-historic-rights-deal-tom-pollock-1201669419/</a></blockquote>

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