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Originally Posted by 4Tran
That's part of the problem. If a company doesn't aggressively defend its intellectual property, it may well lose the ability to profit from it. You can largely blame the outdated copyright & trademark system for that.
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Yes, thus I refer to that very act frequently as the 'worst practice of capitalism'. HG knows fully well that ROBOTECH is dying. Making it into a movie and transferring rights were HG's last hurrah. If the Macross license is released, Robotech would relegate into nothing more than a fading memory.
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Originally Posted by 4Tran
That doesn't seem to be the case. From the Macross Legalities thread:
Later on in the series production, Tatsunoko found that what they agreed to would not cover the production costs, so they decided to renegotiate. Big West gave Tatsunoko the international distribution and merchandising rights in order to compensate them further.
Tatsunoko later sold those rights into a joint ownership with American company, Harmony Gold.
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Yeah, that was the problem with the Japanese companies. Thus the recent law suit regarding MACROSS' ownership, and all that jazz. Some elements within the Japanese licenser did not believe HG had more rights than to broadcast the shows. Even Tatsu didn't see that coming. Nobody expected Robotech to suddenly branch off as a separate universe while sidelining Macross in the United States. CM originally contacted his Japanese licenser for the production of a possible sequel to 'Robotech', or rather, 'Macross', the Japanese side were awfully surprised at the changes made in Robotech. It would appear, that they were never notified.
Quite unfortunate, if you ask me.
- Tak