155

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] lemmyng@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

Sega never goes after their fans for their fangames, but they could bring the whole "Genesis does what Nintendon't" full circle and attempt to sue the Trump admin...

Though given Sega's dogshit legal skills with regards to Archie and Ken Penders, they might as well just ignore it.

[-] QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

Ken Penders didn't actually win the lawsuit, they settled out of court, he won publishing rights to some of the Archie Comics. He does not actually own Scourge The Hedgehog, Sally Acorn, or any other Sonic character, the reason Sega doesn't use those characters is because Sega doesn't want them used.

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

I know Penders didn't win the lawsuit, it was moreso Sega and Archie's incompetence when it came to organizing rights for character creation and archving important legal documents pertaining to the ownership of licensed IP that allowed Penders and other Archie Sonic writers to walk off with their legally dubious OCs.

this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2026
155 points (98.7% liked)

Not The Onion

22426 readers
1937 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS