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Originally Posted by Bri
It's complicated.
The way I understand it: the original show SDF Macross has split ownership. The design team (Studio Nue) and an advertising agency Big West (funding)own the authorship rights and the merchandising rights in Japan. The production studio Tatsunoko owns the actual footage and the international merchandising rights.
Tasunoko licensed SDF Macross to HG together with their own properties Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada. Carl Macek had those dubbed and edited to form Robotech. This license is renewed every 10 years and includes the international merchandising rights outside of Japan.
Those merchandising rights lie at the heart of the legal battle between Big West and Tatsunoko as they block overseas sale of toys and DVDs or Macross sequels.
HG in turn had word Macross trademarked so they own the brand name in most major anime markets outside Japan. Which blocks any manga, toys, DVDs based on Macross or it's sequels from getting licensed in the US or Europe.
Only Nue/Big West can make sequels as they own the authorship rights. Tasunoko and HG can only distribute the original show and sell toys based on it.
For Robotech Sentinels and Shadow Chronicles HG/Tatsunoko worked around this by using the American names and the mecha from Genesis Climber Mospeada and Southern Cross. Expect the same treatment for the movie if there is any semblance to anime to begin with.
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I didn't know their evilness was this sophisticated...
