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Well, it's true that Bandai USA could possibly get the licenses to air Macross Frontier, but there is still the threat of still engaging in potentially costly litigation to defend HG's interests. After all, HG is about or in the process of launching it's new Robotech feature, and confusion between the two may not be in it's best interests.

And you're wrong there. Harmony Gold has a _lot_ to do with it. It's status is not just as a licensee. Prior to the recent court decision, which is only binding in Japan so far, Harmony Gold was treated as if it owned Macross because it had done so much work on the series as well as trademarked the name Macross. This was the primary fear of people bringing any Macross merchandise over because they might have faced litigation over copyright infringement problems.

I also don't see what Gundam 00 has to do with Macross. Gundam 00 is one thing and it's success on the mainstream media doesn't magically give Bandai USA a ticket to acquire Macross Frontier. The legal dispute will still exist and it will continue to haunt Macross Frontier until the original parties get their act together and figure this shit out.

The legal battle is a long and really confusing one, but for everyone else here, here's a brief highlight of the events that have happened.

1. Studio Nue and Big West were working on SDF Macross
2. Due to certain circumstances they couldn't complete the anime on their own.
3. They got Tatsunoko Productions to work on a substantial part of the anime
4. They gave Tatsunoko Productions the right to market and distribute the anime internationally, as well as co-ownership. I think.
5. Tatsunoko Productions produces Southern Cross and Mospeada based on Macross - they do have some rights to do - or at least, it's thought that they did. Either way this is not contested.
6. Tatsunoko Productions sells part of their license for Macross to Harmony Gold. Exactly what is sold is up for debate.
7. Harmony Gold thinks that SDF Macross is too short for American Syndication. It buys the license to Southern Cross and Mospeda and creates the Robotech Series spanning 3 generations. The plots of all three series are significantly altered, although SDF Macross saw the least alterations.
8. Robotech is distributed internationally while Macross sits quietly in Japan. Macross DYRL and Macross II were produced but did not see much action outside Japan.
9. FASA, producer of Battletech, starts using some Macross designs in their Mechwarrior / Battletech series. HG claims copyright infringement and the case is settled out of court.
10. Macross DYRL is brought to America. Due to HG initiating some legal dispute it's title is changed to Clash of the Bioroids and the script is significantly altered.
11. Macross Plus is brought to America. HG ignores it for some reason.
12. Everyone ignores Macross 7.
13. HG perks up and attempts to revive the Robotech series due to the increasing popularity of anime. Robotech having significantly deviated from Macross is now it's own story separate from Macross. HG having worked extensively on the series claims that it has it's own creative rights to Robotech. HG also attempts to trademark the word Macross and attempts to claim all rights on Macross related Media.
14. Macross Zero is in the process to be brought to America, and HG attempts to block it. (It has Roy Fokker after all)
15. Legal confusion.
16. More legal confusion. The potential licensee (Pioneer LDC, probably) drops the idea of getting Macross Zero into America.
17. Studio Nue and Big West figure that someone has to stop moseying around and figure out what's going on. They take Tatsunoko to Court.
18. Court decides that Tatsunoko owns SDF Macross, but Studio Nue and Big West owns the francising rights, characters, designs, and the like.
19. HG is keeping quiet about this, but still claims that it has creative rights over the Robotech franchise. They allow for ADV to release SDF Macross in it's unaltered form.
20. Macross Frontier is released in Japan. No news about if it's going to be brought over.

What does this all mean? Why is HG blocking Macross?
HG is blocking or was blocking Macross because it feels as if it has creative rights over its flagship product which was derived from Macross, which is Robotech. Essentially they've done so many alterations to not only it's plot but some limited alterations to animation (I hear that they removed a second moon in all shots of Southern Cross), that they feel that they have rights over to it. In such a case it's actually for their best interest to eliminate all competiton which may confuse their series with others. In this case it's Macross. Which is ironic.

Now I'm not defending HG, but they are not completely at fault. For one, I think they did a terrific job with the first season of Macross, and it's admirable that they managed to take three different animes and string together a plot to link them all up. Not only that, but Macross had remained quite quiet in Japan for a while and it was only after Macross Zero was released when all these legal confusions and technicalities all got raised. HG probably never considered that Macross would once again be so popular in the future - it was probably thinking that it was a one-off thing.

Furthermore, HG probably also thought that it had rights to Macross because it did buy some of those rights and shared it with Tatsunoko, who did the bulk of the original animation for SDF Macross. That's why the court decision was necessary. If the Japanese Courts came down on the side of Tatsunoko then HG probably had the right or would have the right to block any further Macrosses into the country, because that would mean that Tatsunoko had given HG exclusive rights to the international distribution of Macross. But this isn't the case. The court decision also one-upped HG, essentially telling Tatsunoko (and HG) that their rights were limited to the first season of Macross, what HG calls the "Macross Saga".

All this has happened in Japan. But the nature of copyright and intellectual property rights is highly defined by geopolitical boundaries (discussed in my licensing article on wikiroll: http://wiki.crunchyroll.com/licensing), and that particular decision is only binding in Japan so far. It sets a good precedent, true, but that means that if the series is brought to America, HG can potentially start a legal dispute to slow it down - it'll probably lose due to the court finding, but it's still a pretty big fight that could end up costing a lot of money.

Until the matter is settled between all the original parties, I actually dont' see Macross Frontier being brought over to America or anywhere else in particular anytime soon.

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