Legal Issues
Harmony Gold is currently issuing cease and desist orders against sites displaying images and trailers from the upcoming MechWarrior video game. The company claims that the images portray ’mechs that they own the rights to, according to a legal settlement from 1996.
In addition, Harmony Gold’s license for Macross came from Tatsunoko Production, but Japanese courts ruled that it was Studio Nue (creators of the series) that controls the Macross intellectual property. The license Tatsunoko was given was for international distribution outside Japan only, and does not allow them to control the intellectual property.
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