fatmarrow
April 19, 2016, 9:12pm
13
George Lucas was always fair as to sharing the world of Star Wars with the fans but with the sale of LucasArts Disney has been busy shutting down anything and everything connected to SW as fan art under IP and copyright violations.
Kind of silly hu?
Disney slaps Star Wars fans with copyright notices for sharing pictures of a toy online | CBC News
Sooooo
If you make a gun that looks like Mickey Mouse then 100% Disney would sue you if released in a commercial or non-commercial product.
The only fitting advice is if your game goes Angry Birds and makes millions hire a in house lawyer and head of f to the beach for some well earned R&R and let them worry about it.
Disney are famously litigious in respect of their IP rights, though to be fair that case involved a prematurely released toy that they didn’t want in the public domain before the SW premiere.
Your advice seems sound
