How Copyright Law Gave Us STAR WARS

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a couple of weeks, but hey, time and duties get in the way.

Here’s a very, very interesting article by Devin Faraci on how copyright law made Star Wars, the film, possible.

In an alternate universe George Lucas never made Star Wars because he was able to get the rights to Flash Gordon. See, that was Lucas’ original intention, and he even went to meet with King Features Syndicate, who held the rights, to talk with them about making a movie based on the classic comic strip and movie serial space adventurer.

Definitely worth the read.