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== Comics ==

** To date, due to a reluctance to include characters from the Vertigo line in the 'mainstream' DC universe, the only appearance of a Sandman character in the main DC line since the original [[Sandman]] series concluded was the Daniel version of Dream. They had no need to ask permission but at least gave the courtesy of a heads-up to [[Neil Gaiman]], who looked the dialogue over and thought it was pretty damn good. A reference to the [[Green Lantern Ring]] as a "wishing ring" is one he wishes he thought of himself.

** [[Paul Cornell]] also ran his use of the Endless version of [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] during "The Black Ring" arc by Gaiman and got approved. Generally, the only one of the Endless that is used without Gaiman's permission is Destiny, the only member of the family not created by Gaiman. Destiny predated ''[[The Sandman]]'' by many years (and was host of one of DC's horror anthology comics) and was retconned into the Endless by Gaiman. His personality has stayed pretty consistent, so it's not seen as any problem.

* Pat Mills created a whole bunch of strips for ''[[2000 AD|Two Thousand AD]]'', but he owns none of them; however, due to his influence, it's very rare that anyone else is allowed to write any of them. Mills famously blocked the publication of an ''[[ABC Warriors]]'' strip by [[Alan Moore]] for decades, and also got pissy at Andy Diggle for commissioning a new ''Satanus'' series from Robbie Morrison, despite the fact that Mills had originally resurrected Satanus in story he wrote for ''[[Judge Dredd]]'', for which he came up with the name and nothing else.

* The creators of ''[[Superman]]'' sold the rights to him early on (for $65, for each of them!), but later fought tooth and nail just to get some recognition.

* Bungie Studios: The creator of the ''[[Halo]]'' franchise. After they were bought by Microsoft all the legal rights of their franchise now were owned by Microsoft. Despite the fact that Bungie Studios is the ultimate authority of the franchise, and created the [[Universe Bible]] and all the important elements of the franchise itself. Now that they are independent all their work after their separation, now belongs to the studio. By all accounts the Bungie-Halo is a rare amicable example of this trope, as Bungie simply decided they had definitively wrapped up the franchise for themselves, and wanted to do something different after 10 years, and so handed the franchise over to 343 Industries.

** It should be noted that 343i has a number of former Bungie employees in its employ, alongside those who worked with the late Pandemic Studios.

* Also happened to Toys For Bob with ''[[Star Control]] 3'', although unusually for this circumstance, Toys For Bob ''do'' retain the rights to the setting itself, just not the right to create "Star Control" branded games.

* This happened to Toby Gard with ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' when he objected to making Lara [[Fan Service Pack|bustier]] and ended up axed from the sequel. He came back as a consultant after ''Angel Of Darkness'' tanked, but Eidos (and its parent company [[Square Enix]]) still holds the rights to Lara Croft.