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There was a similar case brought up by George RR Martin on his blog a long time ago, where he was talking about why he personally disapproves of fanfiction: https://grrm.livejournal.com/151914.html Turned out that it's a super convoluted story but the threat of a lawsuit by a fanfic author...

It's been over a year... has Disney still been stealing fan art? The answer is Yes. Are they doing it for animations now as well? That answer is also yes!

In case you were wondering if Star Wars still steals fan art for official use... Star Wars does still steal fan art for official use. This time it focused on how Fantasy Flight Games stole cover art for its Star Wars RPG book.

Whelp, the theft keeps on coming. They also messed up the Star Destroyer designs... oh well. It's not just Marvel Comics f'ing up though and being "inspired/lifted totally," but officially commissioned Star Wars posters for the upcoming movie.

Hence I said... kinda… ;) It was meant to be a humorous aside. :P

Update Video: Kinda clickbait. They didn't copy the Millennium Falcon...

Yeah that's what one of the creators said in the video to the Youtuber when he was messaged. He just says he wished that Marvel would contact him or get some sort of recognition originally since that's what the people who did a Halo comic did when they asked him if they could use one of his...

The video only mentions the legality of it once. I think none of the videos mention it more then once. That wasn't the point of the video.

Title is a bit misleading. TLDW, Star Wars has stolen lots and lots of artwork from fans for their comics and has been doing it for a long time to the point it's so pervasive that entire fleets of ships and almost every vessel in whole comic series are copied from fan art. No credit or...