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Sunday, February 10, 2008

10:44 pm: Mike Sugarbaker says...
LucasFilm sues Gen Con LLC over charity auction of Star Wars memorabilia

It’s hard to know what to make of this item, so here’s a quote: “LucasFilm says that Gen Con, a company that puts on gaming conventions, failed to uphold a contract to deliver proceeds from a ‘Star Wars’ memorabilia auction to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. […] According to this complaint, Gen Con owes almost $1 million to the charity and to LucasArts for proceeds from an auction held at last May’s Gen Con convention in Los Angeles. LucasFilm says it undertook expenses to advertise the auction to increase participation.” Wow.

7 Responses to “LucasFilm sues Gen Con LLC over charity auction of Star Wars memorabilia”

  1. James S. Says: February 11th, 2008 at 7:48 am

    Holy Crap! If this is true and LucasArts chooses to litigate, we can kiss GenCon goodbye.

  2. Troy_Costisick Says: February 11th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    That GenCon SoCal was nothing but a big mess from the very start. I hope that this is all just a misunderstanding and the two parties and reconcile.

    Peace,

    -Troy

  3. pduggie Says: February 11th, 2008 at 3:07 pm

    This is Star Wars Celebration, not SoCal.

  4. Allan Sugarbaker Says: February 13th, 2008 at 8:10 am

    Adam Jury has taken a closer look at this on his blog, here. He asserts that the damages sought by Lucasfilm are closer to $800,000 though that may go higher.

    I don’t think this will kill off Gen Con, by any means. But a dispute of this nature probably makes another Star Wars Celebration unlikely - or unlikely that Gen Con LLC will be asked to run it.

  5. Adam Jury Says: February 13th, 2008 at 9:01 am

    I whipped up a summary of this case yesterday, since the internet game of telephone was beginning to distort things more and more: http://www.adamjury.com/2008/gen-con-sued-by-lucasfilm-llc/

  6. Allan Sugarbaker Says: February 14th, 2008 at 10:45 am

    Heh.

    Thanks, Adam. :-)

  7. Allan Sugarbaker Says: February 16th, 2008 at 2:07 am

    And now Gen Con’s filing Chapter 11. (Multiple folks reported this one. Thanks, guys.)

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