Neronium said:
GamemasterAnthony said:
Kenneth Penders and nip THAT idiot in the bud.
Can SEGA legally do anything about that? I mean, they allow the Archie Comics to use their IP and characters in the comics, but I don't think they own any of the original characters that were made for the comic, hence why the case was settled. That's why Kenneth Penders was able to take all the Echidnas except for Knuckles and Tikal out of the newly rebooted universe. Still don't like Mr. Penders in the slightest though after that huge kerfuffle and how many characters had to either be reworked, or are banned from the comics.
If they cared about the characters from the comic as much as the game characters (which they should)...YES! Technically, even though the characters of the comic are unique to the comic, they are still essentially a "byproduct" of the core Sonic franchise and are thus considered part of the franchise. In short...they never would have existed had it not been for the Sonic franchise. In fact, the same can be said about any unique characters that appeared in the cartoons as well. (Chris from Sonic X, Sonia and Manic from Underground, etc.) I've actually seen Pogs which contained the characters from SatAM, and they say "© Sega", not "© DIC" even though DIC created them.
So, yeah...Sega has the bigger claim here. Those characters may have been specifically created for the comic, but the core franchise is still Sega's and therefore they technically hold the IP on all characters created within.
