Harmony Gold Vs Hasbro Court Filing
#1
Posted 02 August 2013 - 05:26 AM
http://www.courthous...ransformers.pdf
HG makes a lot of bold claims that Hasbro can easily destroy if Hasbro uses the 2006 Japanese court rulings in the case of Tatsunoko vs. Big West/Studio Nue. This will pave the way for PGI/Catalyst Games to being able to license the unseen Macross/Southern Cross mechs and use them.
#2
Posted 02 August 2013 - 09:01 AM
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The error is when HG makes the claim that Tatsunoko is the exclusive author and owner of all worldwide copyrights of everything within the series of Macross and Southern Cross. The Japanese courts ruled in 2002 and 2006 that Tatsunoko only owns the animation but not anything within the animation. It does not have exclusive copyrights to the mech and character designs that are within Macross and Southern Cross.
Anyone else's thoughts?
#3
Posted 02 August 2013 - 12:42 PM
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That'd be swell...
<---cause this routine is getting old
#4
Posted 04 August 2013 - 02:38 AM
#5
Posted 04 August 2013 - 02:47 AM
Reggimus, on 04 August 2013 - 02:38 AM, said:
BT fans, Robotech fans, Macross fans, Transformer fans, et cetera. Harmony Gold has had quite a ride and made a crapton of enemies during it. And don't get me started on the fact there's quite a few IP's owned by Hasbro that have quite the following...
Let's hope universe has a good sense of humor.
Edited by Adridos, 04 August 2013 - 02:51 AM.
#6
Posted 04 August 2013 - 12:41 PM
#7
Posted 04 August 2013 - 01:46 PM
There was a case recently in the news were someone was patent squatting and created a company to sue other companies that he claimed were infringing upon his patents. Patents that he never did anything with other than hold the note on. He made hundreds of millions of dollars doing this because these big companies would settle out of court for like 10 cents on the dollar kinda thing. One day he attempted to sue someone who didn't settle out of court, who fought back, with a LOT of backing behind them. Guess what? That patent squatter had a vast majority of his patents invalidated.
(grabs some popcorn)
Fire it up!!!
#8
Posted 04 August 2013 - 02:18 PM
#9
Posted 04 August 2013 - 03:28 PM
#10
Posted 04 August 2013 - 04:02 PM
#11
Posted 04 August 2013 - 04:14 PM
dal10, on 04 August 2013 - 03:28 PM, said:
That is actually a smart thing to do. You could even write an email to Topps and to Hasbro to let them know as well. This will give them a direction to counter HG.
Edited by James The Fox Dixon, 04 August 2013 - 04:29 PM.
#12
Posted 04 August 2013 - 04:52 PM
James The Fox Dixon, on 04 August 2013 - 04:14 PM, said:
That is actually a smart thing to do. You could even write an email to Topps and to Hasbro to let them know as well. This will give them a direction to counter HG.
if hasbro's lawyers haven't already figured this one out, they need better lawyers. reason i was suggesting that catalyst (or whoever actually owns the rights to battletech) send in an amicus brief is to get the judge to rule in no uncertain terms that HG has no right to any of the unseen designs. (well their macross versions)
considering previous legal trouble between battletech and HG they would have standing to submit an amicus brief. (basically a 3rd party letter supporting one side or another.)
Edited by dal10, 04 August 2013 - 04:56 PM.
#13
Posted 04 August 2013 - 05:05 PM
dal10, on 04 August 2013 - 04:52 PM, said:
considering previous legal trouble between battletech and HG they would have standing to submit an amicus brief. (basically a 3rd party letter supporting one side or another.)
Well Catalyst licenses it from Topps, so it would be prudent to contact both companies.
#14
Posted 04 August 2013 - 09:36 PM
#15
Posted 06 August 2013 - 12:23 AM
http://www.animenews...d-for-tax-fraud
bah, it shortened it, anyway follow up article
http://www.animenews...ve-no-jail-time
TL;DR - The founder of Harmony Gold was found guilty of tax fraud in Italy, and sentenced to 3 years jail, but due to over crowding he won't do time, but has to pony up with $12mill in damages.
Edited by Reggimus, 06 August 2013 - 12:26 AM.
#16
Posted 06 August 2013 - 11:27 AM
Edited by Will9761, 06 August 2013 - 11:32 AM.
#19
Posted 06 August 2013 - 01:31 PM
Edited by Will9761, 07 August 2013 - 03:56 PM.
#20
Posted 06 August 2013 - 02:04 PM
I ask because they say they only hold the rights to the original series.
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