If they’ll stop beating theirs.
We’ve heard at least 17 (thousand) times by now that they’d like to see PDFs for the game.

The problem remains no digital copies which hurts the rpg for Star Wars.

To the Original Thread Title Question...my answer...

"Any Update at all"
 
:)

Convince Lucasfilm, Asmodee/Edge, and EA to all sit down and alter the terms of the tabletop gaming and electronic/video gaming contracts to allow it.
Should be a breeze to convince EA to do something that holds absolutely no benefit for them, but potential to hurt them.

the fact that the books are not in stock and the idea the game may end soon is what dose the most harm to the line 
a 2E with the fact they cant keep books in print will be the last nail who want to risk jumping into a game you cant get the books for 

Oh hey, skipping the legitimate point about the participants not really discussing the same thing. Cooler cooler cooler.
(Forgot my towel for the hot tub.)

Stan Fresh
do you work for Sony? you seem to get fair use as well as they do
but yes its fair use in fact he has made some of the ONLY art out there for some star wars ships that are talked about in books

As someone who has been dealing with fair use laws and copyright claims for three years for my movie review channel, I'm not really in the mood to be lectured at by someone who knows ****all about fair use, so looks like I'll be joining you on the veranda. 

Did any part of that 3D model exist before the fan artist started working on it? If not, then that specific work was indeed built from the ground up, in the same way that an artist painting a still life of, say, an apple on a plate created that work from the ground up, even if they didn’t grow the tree and pick the apple to put on a plate that they molded and fired themselves.
Again, I respectfully disagree. IP owners with a history of allowing fan-produced derivative works, as long as those works are not made for sale or damaging to the image of the IP would appear to disagree, as well. In this case, they’re aware of the work of at least one of the fan artists, and allow him to continue.

Doing a bit of looking during lunch, here's Fractal Sponge's renders of the juggernaut:
 
http://fractalsponge.net/?p=134
With all those close up renders and alternate angles on the vehicle, could easily slot this under educational. So yeah, this is fair use.
 

I respectfully disagree. The fan artist(s) used existing work as inspiration to build his (their) own artwork from the ground up. The freelancer took that completed work, inserted it into another, and claimed the final result was all his own. The paycheck is just salt in the wound; the fan artists’ work was good enough for “official” publication, but someone else got the credit and the money.
Allow me to illustrate (no pun intended) this way: Let’s say that I’m part of a group that writes Batman fan fiction. A new Batman comic comes out, and in that issue, a page is lifted word-for-word from one of my stories, and another is a direct lift from someone else’s. We don’t claim any ownership of the Batman property, but someone has still taken our work, grafted it into another work, and passed it off as their own.

How so? The “complainer” is taking exception not to the subject matter of the images, but to the final results of his labor being passed off as the final result of someone else’s work. He (and others) did the proverbial heavy lifting for multiple items in the artwork. He’s not claiming any ownership of the IP, but saying that someone else used his (and at least one other’s) free labor for a payday.

Well it's their work, taken verbatim by someone else without crediting the original artist. If I draw an X-Wing from the ground up, working from a reference, that's different than someone taking my drawing of an X-Wing and then taking it verbatim and putting it in "their own" work. Legally, it is muddy. Ethically, I think it's pretty clear.
Especially when it is a freelancer using someone else's work to sell to the owner of the IP.

Actually, they kind of do. Mind you, I've not seen the original work the back cover was stolen from, so I'm going off assumptions here - but the original stolen art would fall under the category of fair use, if it was sufficiently transformative. 

At the very least, the artist should be credited, in my opinion. Especially if it's a freelancer taking their work and basically passing it off as their own.
The legality is muddy, but the ethics aren't, in my opinion.
To elaborate on this, I believe it falls under fair use.

The fan artist is doing it as a hobby without compensation. (I believe this particular fan artist has actually been hired by LFL or licensees on occasion, as well.)  The “professional” artist is taking someone else’s work, passing it off as his own, and being paid for it.

Yes, yes they do.

Yeah we really need Edge to speak up. If they dont soon they will lose their customers do to their silence.
 

I feel a 2e will kill the game its not like D&D and you can get 3to6 books and have all you need the rules are far to spread out
add in how bad they are at keeping the stuff in print I cant see a true 2e being good now a 1.5 may work
just make a new core in 2 parts one with player stuff one with rule crunch for GMs 

All you need to do is convince Lucasfilm, FFG, and EA that it's worth all of them sitting down to rewrite the terms of the tabletop and electronic gaming licenses (with at least one party almost certainly doing it in the middle of their contract term) and separate tabletop game PDFs from electronic gaming, hoping that LFL doesn't decide they also want other changes to the licenses that will increase LFL's benefit and decrease the licensees' benefit like they did when the toy license was renegotiated once upon a time.
Should be a snap.

think you don't get the anti SJW side at all OR are just out to attack them 
they don't like characters who are just for checking a box they want good characters and don't want identity politics forced into the story.
Truth be told is you seem to be one pushing a view to the point you are blind to the other side 

honestly at this point, any official announcement about the star wars rpg would be nice
since the transfert to edge studio, only the miniatures games, ccg & l5r rpg had upcoming products in the site news so the star wars rpg status is still unclear

I feel a 2e will kill the game its not like D&D and you can get 3to6 books and have all you need the rules are far to spread out
add in how bad they are at keeping the stuff in print I cant see a true 2e being good now a 1.5 may work
just make a new core in 2 parts one with player stuff one with rule crunch for GMs 

the fact that the books are not in stock and the idea the game may end soon is what dose the most harm to the line 
a 2E with the fact they cant keep books in print will be the last nail who want to risk jumping into a game you cant get the books for 

I feel a 2e will kill the game its not like D&D and you can get 3to6 books and have all you need the rules are far to spread out
add in how bad they are at keeping the stuff in print I cant see a true 2e being good now a 1.5 may work
just make a new core in 2 parts one with player stuff one with rule crunch for GMs