I&#x27;m not so sure I agree. First of all, it&#x27;s not like anyone could have made this movie without significant financial resources -- reportedly it cost $200 million to make, and it looks it (not to mention, Harrison Ford isn&#x27;t coming back for cheap). Nobody without a large commercial stake in it was going to be able to make a movie like this.<p>That doesn&#x27;t justify current copyright laws (trademarks alone might be sufficient to keep someone from making Star Wars VIII even if copyright was allowed to lapse on ordinary time rather than being constantly extended to keep Steamboat Willy out of the public domain), but collaborative works of fiction require big financial commitments sometimes to get made.