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* ''[[Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman]]'' was forcibly renamed to ''[[What Did I Do to Deserve This My Lord]]?'' after an angry letter from [[Batman|Warner Bros.]]
* The [[Tetris]] Company absolutely ''adores'' this trope. They claim to have [[Disney Owns This Trope|copyrights on basically every aspect of the game]], even those which the US Supreme Court has ruled ''cannot be copyrighted'' ([[wikipedia:Lotus v. Borland|Lotus v. Borland]]), and they'll send C&D letters to anyone who so much as dares make a game with falling tetrominoes, or even just the song "Korobeiniki" (which is actually a Russian folk song long in the public domain, but often remembered as "the Tetris theme").
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* Having various companies own American and European rights to [[Tatsunoko]] series was overcome for ''[[Tatsunoko vs. Capcom]]'', as Capcom went through the trouble (and money) to buy all of the rights for every series represented in the game and then some, with the exception of ''Hakushon Daimaou''. This character was removed from the international version as the European copyright holder absolutely refused to sell the rights to Capcom.
* The ''[[Quest for Glory]]'' series was originally going to be named ''Hero's Quest'', but Sierra On-Line had to change the name to avoid potential copyright issues with the makers of the tabletop game ''Hero Quest''.
* The mission "Hollywood and Vain" in the ''Yuri's Revenge'' expansion pack for ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2]]'' featured parodies of iconic Hollywood action heroes, namely "[[Arnold Schwarzenegger|Arnnie Frankenfurter]]", "[[Sylvester Stallone|Sammy Stallion]]" and "[[Clint Eastwood|Flint Westwood]]", as controllable infantry units complete with (campy) voice impressions of the respective actors. While EA and/or Westwood could have easily cited Fair Use per ''Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.'' which set precedent for commercial parodies of existing works or people, they instead played it safe and disabled the actors' voices in patch 1.001, replacing them instead with a generic GI voice set. Patching the game to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTgtrOdMe40 restore] the excised voices is trivial though.
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