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* Creator/VanBeurenStudios' Milton Mouse character existed as early as 1921, but in 1929 he and his girlfriend Rita got substantial redesigns to resemble [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mickey and]] WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse, respectively. Walt himself watched the short ''The Office Boy'' in a theatre and was outraged, and sued Van Beuren. While Van Beuren's lawyers asserted that Milton actually predated Mickey, Disney still won the lawsuit because it was obvious that Milton was redesigned specifically to bank on Mickey's popularity. As a result, Van Beuren cooked up a less blatant CaptainErsatz named Cubby Bear.
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* Prior to the early 2010s starting with ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', there was a contractual requirement that neither Franchise/WonderWoman nor any of her supporting characters could appear in any video production in which she was not one of the main characters. This prevented her from appearing in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse until ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', and Wonder Girl was out of both ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' and the first season of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''. At one point, this was so bad that she couldn't appear in other shows in the DCAU, including crossovers with ''Justice League''. Thus, she was the only Justice League founding member to never appear on ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''.
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* Prior to the early 2010s starting with ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', there was a contractual requirement that neither Franchise/WonderWoman nor any of her supporting characters could appear in any video production in which she was not one of the main characters. This prevented her from appearing in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse until ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', and Wonder Girl was out of both ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' and the first season of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''. At one point, this was so bad that she couldn't appear in other shows in the DCAU, including crossovers with ''Justice League''. Thus, she was the only Justice League founding member to never appear on ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''. Thankfully as mentioned above, this was later lifted in the early 2010s, and Wonder Girl was added to ''Young Justice'' starting with it's second season, and also made a couple cameos in the ''Teen Titans'' [[ContinuityReboot reboot series]], ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''.
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* Prior to the early 2010s, there was a contractual requirement that neither Franchise/WonderWoman nor any of her supporting characters could appear in any video production in which she was not one of the main characters. This prevented her from appearing in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse until ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', and Wonder Girl was out of both ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' and the first season of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''. At one point, this was so bad that she couldn't appear in other shows in the DCAU, including crossovers with ''Justice League''. Thus, she was the only Justice League founding member to never appear on ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''.
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* Prior to the early 2010s, 2010s starting with ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', there was a contractual requirement that neither Franchise/WonderWoman nor any of her supporting characters could appear in any video production in which she was not one of the main characters. This prevented her from appearing in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse until ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', and Wonder Girl was out of both ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' and the first season of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''. At one point, this was so bad that she couldn't appear in other shows in the DCAU, including crossovers with ''Justice League''. Thus, she was the only Justice League founding member to never appear on ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''.
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* The North American DVD releases of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' from Buena Vista. The third season hasn't even been released and the two seasons that were released are missing one episode each. [[note]]This was initially believed to be due to a prominent minor character, Mindy Moleford, bearing a [[{{Expy}} strong similarity]] to [[Creator/CindyCrawford a well-known celebrity]], and Buena Vista not wanting to spend the money to secure the likeness rights- however, [[https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/10305/why-were-2-episodes-omitted-from-the-the-tick-dvd-releases-and-why-was-season this was not the case]][[/note]]. This was averted in the United Kingdom DVD releases by Liberation Entertainment, as they released all three seasons complete and uncut aside from an abridged intro and the episodes being sped and pitched up.
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* The North American DVD releases of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' from Buena Vista. The third season hasn't even been released and the two seasons that were released are missing one episode each. [[note]]This [[note]]The situation was initially believed to be due to a prominent minor character, Mindy Moleford, bearing a [[{{Expy}} strong similarity]] to [[Creator/CindyCrawford a well-known celebrity]], and Buena Vista not wanting to spend the money to secure the likeness rights- however, rights. However, [[https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/10305/why-were-2-episodes-omitted-from-the-the-tick-dvd-releases-and-why-was-season this it was not the case]][[/note]]. case]][[/note]] This was averted in the United Kingdom DVD releases by Liberation Entertainment, as they released all three seasons complete and uncut aside from an abridged intro and the episodes being sped and pitched up.
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* The North American DVD releases of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' from Buena Vista. The third season hasn't even been released and the two seasons that were released are missing one episode each. This was due to a prominent minor character bearing a [[{{Expy}} strong similarity]] to a well-known celebrity, and Buena Vista not wanting to spend the money to secure the likeness rights. This was averted in the United Kingdom DVD releases by Liberation Entertainment, as they released all three seasons complete and uncut aside from an abridged intro and the episodes being sped and pitched up.
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* The North American DVD releases of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' from Buena Vista. The third season hasn't even been released and the two seasons that were released are missing one episode each. This [[note]]This was initially believed to be due to a prominent minor character character, Mindy Moleford, bearing a [[{{Expy}} strong similarity]] to [[Creator/CindyCrawford a well-known celebrity, celebrity]], and Buena Vista not wanting to spend the money to secure the likeness rights.rights- however, [[https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/10305/why-were-2-episodes-omitted-from-the-the-tick-dvd-releases-and-why-was-season this was not the case]][[/note]]. This was averted in the United Kingdom DVD releases by Liberation Entertainment, as they released all three seasons complete and uncut aside from an abridged intro and the episodes being sped and pitched up.
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* The U.S. release of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' animated series is missing one episode each in the two seasons released so far; due to a prominent minor character bearing a [[{{Expy}} strong similarity]] to a well-known celebrity, and Buena Vista not wanting to spend the money to secure the likeness rights. Buena Vista still hasn't released the third season; for reasons unknown. The UK region 2 release by Lace International has all three seasons complete and uncut.
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* The U.S. release North American DVD releases of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' animated series is from Buena Vista. The third season hasn't even been released and the two seasons that were released are missing one episode each in the two seasons released so far; each. This was due to a prominent minor character bearing a [[{{Expy}} strong similarity]] to a well-known celebrity, and Buena Vista not wanting to spend the money to secure the likeness rights. Buena Vista still hasn't This was averted in the United Kingdom DVD releases by Liberation Entertainment, as they released the third season; for reasons unknown. The UK region 2 release by Lace International has all three seasons complete and uncut.uncut aside from an abridged intro and the episodes being sped and pitched up.
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* According to Bob Camp, some episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' are not on Creator/ParamountPlus due to rights issues with Raymond Scott's music.
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** According to Bob Camp, some episodes of''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' the show are not on Creator/ParamountPlus due to rights issues with Raymond Scott's music.music.
** According to ''Literature/SickLittleMonkeys'', part of the reason why "Man's Best Friend" ended up getting banned was because of this. While Nickelodeon was originally planning to reanimate the infamous scene of Ren beating up George Liquor with an oar into something less violent, they couldn't air the episode at ''all'' because when John Kricfalusi was fired, he was allowed to take the rights to George Liquor with him.
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** According to ''Literature/SickLittleMonkeys'', part of the reason why "Man's Best Friend" ended up getting banned was because of this. While Nickelodeon was originally planning to reanimate the infamous scene of Ren beating up George Liquor with an oar into something less violent, they couldn't air the episode at ''all'' because when John Kricfalusi was fired, he was allowed to take the rights to George Liquor with him.
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* Disney had lost its license of ''WesternAnimation/RoliePolieOlie'' to Creator/{{Nelvana}}, which produced the series. The series was finally added back to Creator/DisneyPlus in September 2021 (it's likely that Disney and Nelvana both made a deal to put the series on the service).
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* Disney had lost its license of ''WesternAnimation/RoliePolieOlie'' to Creator/{{Nelvana}}, which produced the series. The series was finally added back to Creator/DisneyPlus in September 2021 (it's likely that Disney and Nelvana both made a deal to put the series on the service).
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* In the early 2000's, ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresFromTheBookOfVirtues'' got a redub in Singapore that used local voice actors because of this trope, as it would be cheaper to redub the show rather than paying royalties to the {{Celebrity Voice Actor}}s present in the original versions. Because of this, the Singaporean version is the only one legally available to this day.
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* In the early 2000's, the first two seasons of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresFromTheBookOfVirtues'' got a redub in Singapore that used local voice actors because of this trope, as it would be cheaper to redub the show rather than paying royalties to the {{Celebrity Voice Actor}}s present in the original versions. Because of this, the Singaporean version is the only one of the first two seasons legally available to this day.
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* Disney's purchase of Creator/MarvelComics put an end to Sony's production of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''. (In general, Disney tried to avoid screwing with existing licensing deals, but Sony gave up the TV rights to Spidey so they could keep the [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy movie]] [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries rights]].) Creator/GregWeisman explained the show's situation [[http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=14223 here]]; he even points out that the companies themselves weren't to blame, but that it was just bad corporate luck. As of 2022, ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' is streaming on Creator/DisneyPlus, thanks to an output deal with Sony. But since Sony still produced Spider-Man films, ''Spectacular'''s Spider-Man appears in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'', complete with Creator/JoshKeaton reprising the role. The closest Greg Weisman has come to working with the show again is ''ComicBook/TheSpectacularSpiderMen'', a new Spider-Man comic he would write for Marvel featuring both Peter Parker and Miles Morales.
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* Disney's purchase of Creator/MarvelComics put an end to Sony's production of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''. (In general, Disney tried to avoid screwing with existing licensing deals, but Sony gave up the TV rights to Spidey so they could keep the [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy movie]] [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries rights]].) Creator/GregWeisman explained the show's situation [[http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=14223 here]]; he even points out that the companies themselves weren't to blame, but that it was just bad corporate luck. As of 2022, ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' is streaming on Creator/DisneyPlus, thanks to an output deal with Sony. But since Sony still produced Spider-Man films, ''Spectacular'''s Spider-Man appears in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'', complete with Creator/JoshKeaton reprising the role. The closest Greg Weisman has come to working with the show again is ''ComicBook/TheSpectacularSpiderMen'', ''The Spectacular Spider-Men'', a new Spider-Man comic he would write for Marvel featuring both Peter Parker and Miles Morales.
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* Disney's purchase of Creator/MarvelComics put an end to Sony's production of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''. (In general, Disney tried to avoid screwing with existing licensing deals, but Sony gave up the TV rights to Spidey so they could keep the [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy movie]] [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries rights]].) Creator/GregWeisman explained the show's situation [[http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=14223 here]]; he even points out that the companies themselves weren't to blame, but that it was just bad corporate luck. As of 2022, ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' is streaming on Creator/DisneyPlus, thanks to an output deal with Sony. But since Sony still produced Spider-Man films, ''Spectacular'''s Spider-Man appears in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'', complete with Creator/JoshKeaton reprising the role. The closest Greg Weisman has come to working with the show again is ''The Spectacular Spider-Men'', a new Spider-Man comic he would write for Marvel featuring both Peter Parker and Miles Morales.
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* Disney's purchase of Creator/MarvelComics put an end to Sony's production of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''. (In general, Disney tried to avoid screwing with existing licensing deals, but Sony gave up the TV rights to Spidey so they could keep the [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy movie]] [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries rights]].) Creator/GregWeisman explained the show's situation [[http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=14223 here]]; he even points out that the companies themselves weren't to blame, but that it was just bad corporate luck. As of 2022, ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' is streaming on Creator/DisneyPlus, thanks to an output deal with Sony. But since Sony still produced Spider-Man films, ''Spectacular'''s Spider-Man appears in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'', complete with Creator/JoshKeaton reprising the role. The closest Greg Weisman has come to working with the show again is ''The Spectacular Spider-Men'', ''ComicBook/TheSpectacularSpiderMen'', a new Spider-Man comic he would write for Marvel featuring both Peter Parker and Miles Morales.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' is now available on DVD without many of the music video commentary segments due to not being able to license that amount of music. Arguably, those segments were half the reason why the show was entertaining. Even the segments that were made available for the DVD releases (on separate discs from the episodes themselves) aren't available online. Creator/MikeJudge wouldn't let a third of the series be released since he was [[OldShame embarrassed by it]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' is now available on DVD without many of the music video commentary segments due to not being able to license that amount of music. Arguably, those segments were half the reason why the show was entertaining. Even the segments that were made available for the DVD releases (on separate discs from the episodes themselves) aren't available online. Creator/MikeJudge wouldn't let a third of the series be released since he was [[OldShame [[BuryYourArt embarrassed by it]].
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* This ''almost'' happened with ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', but it was ultimately [[AvertedTrope averted.]] When Jackie Gleason saw the show, he (along with virtually everyone else who watched it) immediately realized that it was "''Series/TheHoneymooners'' [[RecycledInSpace with cave people]]," and he seriously considered suing Hanna-Barbera to stop production. However, Gleason knew that if he succeeded, he'd NeverLiveItDown and forever be remembered as "the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air." As such, he left the cartoon alone and preserved his reputation (which by all accounts worked).
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* The main reason why copyright lengths had extended in 1976 and 1998 were because Creator/{{Disney}} was desperate to keep ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'' out of the PublicDomain.
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** For a while, home video releases excluded the show's very first episode, "Help Wanted", because of licensing issues with the song "Living in the Sunlight" by Tiny Tim.
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** For a while, home video releases excluded the show's very first episode, "Help Wanted", because of licensing issues with the song "Living in the Sunlight" by Tiny Tim.Tim, until it was released on the Season 3 and the First 100 Episodes DVD Sets with the song left intact.
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* PlayedForLaughs on one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SolarOpposites'', when Aisha is telling the aliens about the fates of all the other teams from Planet Schlorp. She claims one team was killed by ''the'' Franchise/{{Superman}}, but she can't show that clip because of legal reasons.
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* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales''' creator Phil Vischer says in "The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's" commentary [[note]] The audio snippet can be heard [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWThs4Qdej0 here]] [[/note]] that they got in trouble with Creator/NewLineCinema after their release of "Lord of the Beans". Both episodes have had limited release and were skipped in "All The Shows, Volume 3," possibly to avoid more legal repercussions.
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* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales''' creator Phil Vischer says in "The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's" commentary [[note]] The audio snippet can be heard [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWThs4Qdej0 here]] [[/note]] that they got in trouble with Creator/NewLineCinema after their release of "Lord of the Beans". Beans," as one could argue their 44-minute AffectionateParody may have been [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings too authentic to the source material.]] Both episodes have had seen limited release and were skipped in omitted from "All The Shows, Volume 3," possibly to avoid more legal repercussions.
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* Disney's purchase of Creator/MarvelComics put an end to Sony's production of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''. (In general, Disney tried to avoid screwing with existing licensing deals, but Sony gave up the TV rights to Spidey so they could keep the [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy movie]] [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries rights]].) Creator/GregWeisman explained the show's situation [[http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=14223 here]]; he even points out that the companies themselves weren't to blame, but that it was just bad corporate luck. As of 2022, ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' is streaming on Creator/DisneyPlus, thanks to an output deal with Sony. But since Sony still produced Spider-Man films, ''Spectacular'''s Spider-Man appears in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'', complete with Creator/JoshKeaton reprising the role.
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* Disney's purchase of Creator/MarvelComics put an end to Sony's production of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''. (In general, Disney tried to avoid screwing with existing licensing deals, but Sony gave up the TV rights to Spidey so they could keep the [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy movie]] [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries rights]].) Creator/GregWeisman explained the show's situation [[http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=14223 here]]; he even points out that the companies themselves weren't to blame, but that it was just bad corporate luck. As of 2022, ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' is streaming on Creator/DisneyPlus, thanks to an output deal with Sony. But since Sony still produced Spider-Man films, ''Spectacular'''s Spider-Man appears in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'', complete with Creator/JoshKeaton reprising the role. The closest Greg Weisman has come to working with the show again is ''The Spectacular Spider-Men'', a new Spider-Man comic he would write for Marvel featuring both Peter Parker and Miles Morales.
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* This managed to happen to ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'' regarding music. ''Twice.''
** The first was when it was still on television. Originally the clip of the drunken dudebros taking over the Ivy League was cut to a clip of [[Music/GaryGlitter Rock And Roll Part 2]]. Either they lost the rights or never had them at all, because the music was soon changed: it was still the recognizable tune, but it lacked the distinct HEY that most know the song for which was apparently good enough to satisfy a lawyer.
** When it was released to DVD, they had by then lost ''all'' the rights to almost all the music in the entire series. The show fell victim to some rather noticeable and badly done ClumsyCopyrightCensorship where songs were replaced with royalty-free alternatives: the audio mixing was poor and it often didn't match the volume of the episode or drowned out dialogue, a ''very'' noticeable replacement of Andy saying "Music/ScottJoplin" instead of "Music/GordonLightfoot" which sticks out like a sore thumb because it was taken from a different episode rather than getting Creator/WallaceLangham to re-record the line, and it even caused a PlotHole where one of the replaced songs was plot-relevant.
** The first was when it was still on television. Originally the clip of the drunken dudebros taking over the Ivy League was cut to a clip of [[Music/GaryGlitter Rock And Roll Part 2]]. Either they lost the rights or never had them at all, because the music was soon changed: it was still the recognizable tune, but it lacked the distinct HEY that most know the song for which was apparently good enough to satisfy a lawyer.
** When it was released to DVD, they had by then lost ''all'' the rights to almost all the music in the entire series. The show fell victim to some rather noticeable and badly done ClumsyCopyrightCensorship where songs were replaced with royalty-free alternatives: the audio mixing was poor and it often didn't match the volume of the episode or drowned out dialogue, a ''very'' noticeable replacement of Andy saying "Music/ScottJoplin" instead of "Music/GordonLightfoot" which sticks out like a sore thumb because it was taken from a different episode rather than getting Creator/WallaceLangham to re-record the line, and it even caused a PlotHole where one of the replaced songs was plot-relevant.
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* In the spring of 2021, Mattel began taking down and/or blocking various ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends''-related videos on [=YouTube=]. This treatment even extended to uploads of foreign dubs of the series. This is mainly for the classic series (the first seven seasons).
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