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Star Wars Fans Lose It Over Disney Legal Terms For Star Wars Day Hashtag

On Monday, Disney+ revealed that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will debut on the streaming […]

On Monday, Disney+ revealed that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will debut on the streaming service on Star Wars Day, May 4th, two months ahead of schedule. For the first time ever, the complete Skywalker saga will be available to stream all in one place. Disney+ went on to ask fans to “celebrated the Saga” by replying to their announcement tweet with their best Star Wars memories, teasing that the tweets may appear “somewhere special” during the service’s Star Wars Day celebration. But then Disney+ posted a another tweet that introduced some legal language that has drawn scrutiny from among the Star Wars fan community.

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Disney+’s message was quickly lampooned, mocked, and called into question by fans, legal scholars, and basically everyone on Twitter. The company tried to clarify their language and meaning behind the initial tweet in a follow that read: “The above legal language applies ONLY to replies to this tweet using #MayThe4th and mentioning @DisneyPlus. These replies may appear in something special on May the 4th!” The damage was done by then though, and social media accounts are keeping the message in their sights.

It’s worth noting that Disney is not making a legal claim to all tweets using the hashtag for Star Wars, but specifically any message sent to them that they intend to use in whatever video or special they’re creating for May the 4th. Overall it was their way of making sure they had a release from anyone willingly participating

It’s a good holiday

Not sure that’s how that works

The crawl

Actually you owe us money this time

Feel free to use this one

Does this include birthdays

On-topic

Fun is also Copyright Disney

Where is the lie

The criticisms are valid

They briefly considered it at one point!