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Sometimes occurs because [[Disney Owns This Trope]]. See also [[Writing Around Trademarks]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The Japanese audio track on the U.S. release of ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]'' simply cuts out at one point in the first episode because the record label for the band Tokio wouldn't allow their music to be used.
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== Comic Books ==
* [[Archie Comics]] has ended up altering two covers to their ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series - issue 8, which had [[Marvel Comics]] heroes fighting in a cloud of dust, and ''Sonic Super Special #7'', which not only had the [[Image Comics]] heroes on it, but two of Ken Penders' creations on it - during various reproductions, such as cover scans on ''Sonic Mega Collection''
== Card Games ==▼
* Game designer James Ernest developed a game in which players are [[Diabolical Mastermind]]s competing to construct the most stylish act of [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]. It was originally released under the title ''Before I Kill You, Mister Bond.'' Following a cease and desist order from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over the use of [[wikipedia:James Bond (ornithologist)|Bond's name]], the current edition is titled ''James Ernest's Totally Renamed Spy Game''.▼
** The [https://web.archive.org/web/20101209152831/http://paizo.com/store/games/cardBoardGames/other/r/v5748btpy741t official product description] even includes the line, "We’d tell you what it was once called, but we’d rather not get another letter."▼
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== [[Live
* The early releases of the ''[[Northern Exposure]]'' DVDs replaced soundtrack music when rights could not be secured for the songs used in the original broadcasts.
* ''[[The Odd Couple]]'' DVDs have quite a few scenes and jokes cut out due to the use of copyrighted music.
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* In any [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] footage before their name change, any time the initials "WWF" are mentioned, the audio suddenly goes dead just around the letter "F"; in the same vein, any time the WWF's Attitude Era "scratch" logo is shown on screen, it is covered by [[Pixellation]] (from on-screen graphic logos down to the WWF patch on referee's shirts), and the on-screen "bug" of the logo is covered up by a black-bordered version of the current WWE logo. This is due to a settlement of a trademark infringement suit brought by the World Wildlife Fund.
** Due to a weird legal grey area in the United Kingdom, older WWE events are allowed to be released in their original uncut format as "Tagged Classics"; this means that the audio and video are both uncut and uncensored, and are presented in their original condition. Unfortunately, these releases are region-locked (and in PAL format), but that can often be worked around... one way or another...
** The old WWF logo got a literal clumsy censorship treatment during the [[Attitude Era|Old]] [[Retraux|School]] [[WWE Raw|Raw]] special, nevertheless. The title cards show the untouched WWF splash screen, not counting the crossed out "World Wrestling Federation" title, supported by the promotion's current name written below. The logo remains unchanged even during the show.
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== Radio ==
* ''[[The Now Show]]'' often features short excerpts of copyrighted music (e.g., a burst of "I Predict a Riot" in place of the French national anthem) which have to be removed from the podcast version. Usually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the replacing segments: "You are now not hearing the song "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt. Frankly, you should count yourself lucky."
▲* Game designer James Ernest developed a game in which players are [[Diabolical Mastermind]]s competing to construct the most stylish act of [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]. It was originally released under the title ''Before I Kill You, Mister Bond.'' Following a cease and desist order from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over the use of [[wikipedia:James Bond (ornithologist)|Bond's name]], the current edition is titled ''James Ernest's Totally Renamed Spy Game''.
▲** The [https://web.archive.org/web/20101209152831/http://paizo.com/store/games/cardBoardGames/other/r/v5748btpy741t official product description] even includes the line, "We’d tell you what it was once called, but we’d rather not get another letter."
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== Web
* In the DVD releases of ''[[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'' episodes, the licensed material is removed with the purpose of not being sued by the rights of the original material. By that, for example, ''[[The Wizard (film)]]'' review had to be removed from the [[Super Mario Bros 3]] + The Wizard review. In the Rocky episode, the licensed music had to be removed and replaced with a [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] version of "Gonna Fly Now, plus the instance of the appearance of clips from the ''[[Rocky (film)|Rocky]]'' movies also had to be removed, between others.▼
* This has even happened to [[Animutation]]s. That infamous Peter Pan cosplayer that shows up in some of them has actually filed DMCA complaints about unauthorized use of his picture, and thus [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvfkvw-luGU the YouTube version] of Dwedit's "JamezBond" replaces his picture with a silhouette filled with text [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] the situation (seen above).▼
* Parodied in the [[Homestar Runner]] cartoon "A Decemberween Mackerel." Homestar and Marzipan are singing the "O Decemberween" carol from an earlier 'toon, except the line "Coach Z's been drinking Listerine" is replaced with "Coach Z's been drinking nonspecific-mouthwash-rine". Then a lawyer sticks a document into the frame and tells Homestar to sign it.▼
* The print version of ''[[Looking for Group]]'' had a page missing... because a character was singing a Queen song on it.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', in a similar situation, took the less extreme route of just removing the copyrighted lyrics from the page in the "Fire and Rain" storyline. The printed edition of the book included some lyrics, including those that hadn't appeared in the strip (the lyric-yoinking began before the plot finished), but it was significantly reduced to just the most relevant lyrics of each song.
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* Parodied in ''[[Mezzacotta|Comment on a Postcard]]'', [http://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=47 here].
* In the print version of ''[[Megatokyo]]'', anything in the Shirt Guy Dom comics that was taken directly from another source are covered by a censor bar, with notes on top explaining what it was.
== Web Original ==
▲* In the DVD releases of ''[[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'' episodes, the licensed material is removed with the purpose of not being sued by the rights of the original material. By that, for example, ''[[The Wizard (film)]]'' review had to be removed from the [[Super Mario Bros 3]] + The Wizard review. In the Rocky episode, the licensed music had to be removed and replaced with a [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] version of "Gonna Fly Now, plus the instance of the appearance of clips from the ''[[Rocky (film)|Rocky]]'' movies also had to be removed, between others.
▲* This has even happened to [[Animutation]]s. That infamous Peter Pan cosplayer that shows up in some of them has actually filed DMCA complaints about unauthorized use of his picture, and thus [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvfkvw-luGU the YouTube version] of Dwedit's "JamezBond" replaces his picture with a silhouette filled with text [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] the situation (seen above).
▲* Parodied in the [[Homestar Runner]] cartoon "A Decemberween Mackerel." Homestar and Marzipan are singing the "O Decemberween" carol from an earlier 'toon, except the line "Coach Z's been drinking Listerine" is replaced with "Coach Z's been drinking nonspecific-mouthwash-rine". Then a lawyer sticks a document into the frame and tells Homestar to sign it.
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