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Line 26: In 1996, several court cases came to a point which concerned FASA's rights to certain images taken from japanese anime series. Apparently, a [[Twentieth Century Imports|third party]] had sold artwork to FASA that they had no legal right to sell; it turned out that FASA might thus not actually have acquired the legal rights to use these graphics from them after all despite having paid for the rights. Said graphics were the visual images of a number of "classic" [[BattleMech]] models, 'Mechs which have been described as the "bedrock" of ''BattleTech'' and which had been depicted on numerous product covers including the [[classic BattleTech]] boardgame. In 1996, several court cases came to a point which concerned FASA's rights to certain images taken from japanese anime series. Apparently, a [[Twentieth Century Imports|third party]] had sold artwork to FASA that they had no legal right to sell; it turned out that FASA might thus not actually have acquired the legal rights to use these graphics from them after all despite having paid for the rights. Said graphics were the visual images of a number of "classic" [[BattleMech]] models, 'Mechs which have been described as the "bedrock" of ''BattleTech'' and which had been depicted on numerous product covers including the [[classic BattleTech]] boardgame. − The cases were settled out of court, and the parties involved agreed to keep the exact details of the settlement secret. The 'Mechs in question became the [[Unseen]]: they remained legal playing pieces, but must not be depicted on any FASA products. Losing this iconic ''BattleTech'' imagery was a serious blow to FASA, who had to discontinue numerous products or change the cover artwork. + The cases were settled out of court, and the parties involved agreed to keep the exact details of the settlement secret. The 'Mechs in question became the "[[Unseen]]": They remained legal playing pieces, but must not be depicted on any FASA products. Losing this iconic ''BattleTech'' imagery was a serious blow to FASA, who had to discontinue numerous products or change the cover artwork. ===Withdrawal from the market=== ===Withdrawal from the market===
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In 1996, several court cases came to a point which concerned FASA's rights to certain images taken from japanese anime series. Apparently, a [[Twentieth Century Imports|third party]] had sold artwork to FASA that they had no legal right to sell; it turned out that FASA might thus not actually have acquired the legal rights to use these graphics from them after all despite having paid for the rights. Said graphics were the visual images of a number of "classic" [[BattleMech]] models, 'Mechs which have been described as the "bedrock" of ''BattleTech'' and which had been depicted on numerous product covers including the [[classic BattleTech]] boardgame. | In 1996, several court cases came to a point which concerned FASA's rights to certain images taken from japanese anime series. Apparently, a [[Twentieth Century Imports|third party]] had sold artwork to FASA that they had no legal right to sell; it turned out that FASA might thus not actually have acquired the legal rights to use these graphics from them after all despite having paid for the rights. Said graphics were the visual images of a number of "classic" [[BattleMech]] models, 'Mechs which have been described as the "bedrock" of ''BattleTech'' and which had been depicted on numerous product covers including the [[classic BattleTech]] boardgame. | ||
| − | The cases were settled out of court, and the parties involved agreed to keep the exact details of the settlement secret. The 'Mechs in question became the [[Unseen]]: | + | The cases were settled out of court, and the parties involved agreed to keep the exact details of the settlement secret. The 'Mechs in question became the "[[Unseen]]": They remained legal playing pieces, but must not be depicted on any FASA products. Losing this iconic ''BattleTech'' imagery was a serious blow to FASA, who had to discontinue numerous products or change the cover artwork. |
===Withdrawal from the market=== | ===Withdrawal from the market=== | ||