He claims in the same video that "this isn't about the money, it's about the principle." He also said someone working for or associated with Warner/Chappell manually claimed his video, "which is very vindictive and very rude."ĭisney does not own Warner/Chappell, the music group merely licenses their music. Toos told Newsweek that he spent $150,000 on the musical composer, actors, producers, lightsaber graphics and more. "In the last two weeks, I would have made $80,000 on the video," Toos said in a video released the same day. After filing the claim, the company (publisher for the Walt Disney Music Company) began to collect ad revenue for Toos' video by claiming that one of the songs used a rendition of "The Imperial March." If Toos attempts to appeal and Warner/Chappell refutes his claim, he could get a copyright strike on his channel and lose complete ownership of the video.
On January 14, music group and corporate collective Warner/Chappell filed a copyright claim against the video. Star Wars fans, a notoriously tough group to please, had overwhelming praise for the video, which gathered more than six million views in one month and 40,000 likes. They ran post-production up until the release of "Vader Episode 1: Shards of the Past" on December 20. Toos agreed to those conditions and shot for three full days in September. Toos' claims Lucasfilm gave him permission on two conditions: he couldn't crowdfund and he couldn't monetize the fan film on YouTube. Before the camera started rolling Toos said he contacted an employee at Lucasfilm and asked if he could make the film. He contacted Danny Ramirez to direct and they began planning the production. In February 2017, Toos started work on his most ambitious project to date: a Star Wars fan film about corrupted Darth Vader.
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