From /u/frontwirestudios on /r/pcgaming
To those of you concerned about this, I'd like to make a few points. 1) We're not doing this just for media attention. We started as a group of Star Wars fans that wanted to resurrect the BF3 that we wanted all along. 2) According to our lawyers we are 100% compliant with all US copyright laws. There are 4 fair use defenses that one can use. We fall under 3 of the 4 defenses. We're also considered a Parody. It's not any different than how Weird Al and/or Saturday Night Live are able to use the Star Wars IP to make money. 3) We're 100% free, which helps us in our defense against copyright infringement 4) Since Disney took over LucasArts they have sent out a total of 0 Cease & Desist letters. This includes fan films that have made hundreds of thousands of dollars. Most notably, the Darth Maul film that made a ton of money off of the advertisements on YouTube. 5) Final note. From the mouses mouth: "We do not claim ownership to your User Generated Content; however, you grant us a non-exclusive, sublicensable, irrevocable and royalty-free worldwide license under all copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, privacy and publicity rights and other intellectual property rights to use, reproduce, transmit, print, publish, publicly display, exhibit, distribute, redistribute, copy, index, comment on, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works based upon, publicly perform, make available and otherwise exploit such User Generated Content, in whole or in part, in all media formats and channels now known or hereafter devised.." In theory, we're free to do as we please as long as we do not claim to own the right to the IP, which we don't. https://disneytermsofuse.com/english/ EDIT: Oh and no, we didn't do Steam Greenlight. We went directly through valve.
They're completely fine.