addiesin said:
If he's even bringing up being compensated for a fan film, even as a hypothetical, kind of a dick move, IMO. One does not enter into a creative endeavor accidentally. He knew before he shot a single frame that he did not own the rights to the characters and setting. This reaction to a claim all seems like a lot of hooey to me. It just seems shady from the youtube channel's perspective IMO. Is it wrong that faneditors are not paid? IMO, absolutely not. We know what we're getting into before we start. Is it wrong for a movie studio to take down a fanedit that's been uploaded online? IMO, absolutely not.
Yes. Thank you. This, so many times over. He's acting like he's being robbed, when he used someone else's IP, and he was never in any position to make money from it in the first place.
And he keeps blaming Disney, but Warner Music made the claim. And that's because he used the Imperial Theme (or something that sounded way too close to it), which is their right to claim as copyright holders.
And the fan film hasn't been taken down. It's still available to see right this very second. His channel hasn't been blocked. Warner Music has just claimed the right to one piece of music on it. (And from multiple sources I've read, since he didn't have ads on it in the first place, no one is making any money off of this anyway.)