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Legality: Lucasfilm and 20th Century Studios are part of The Walt Disney Studios not Walt Disney Motion Pictures. Walt Disney Motion Pictures is the distribution arm of The Walt Disney Studios.
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===Legality===
The legality of downloading ''Harmy's Despecialized Edition'' is contentious.<ref name=Goldberg/> As a fan edit, the cut cannot be legally bought or sold, and treads a line between [[Fair Use|fair use]] and copyright infringement.<ref name=Broughall/> OriginalTrilogy.com states that the edits are "made for culturally historical and educational purposes" and that they are "to be shared among legal owners of the officially available releases only".<ref name=Brew/> Consequently, the films are only available via various [[BitTorrent]] trackers and through specialized rapid download programs using file sharing sites.<ref name=Gordon/><ref name=Machkovech/> Harmáček himself remarked: "I'm convinced that 99% of people who download this already bought ''Star Wars'' 10 times over on DVD."<ref name=Eveleth/> {{As of|2025}}, he had received no legal challenge from [[Walt Disney Studios Motion(division)|The PicturesWalt Disney Studios]], the owner of [[Lucasfilm]] and [[20th Century Studios]], over the ''Despecialized Edition''.<ref name=Hosie/>
 
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