BattleTech - History of the Lawsuit

Farflame spotted an article about the BattleTech lawsuit on PCGamesN:

How anime landed BattleTech and the MechWarrior games in legal trouble

The real-world story of the BattleTech series is more confusing and impenetrable than the space politics of its fictional universe. It’s seen several partial buyouts, more than three decades of intellectual property changing hands, and a confusing and largely confidential legal struggle over two countries' copyright and trademark laws. And it all started with anime.

There's no sign of BattleTech's legal trouble ending soon: there are two BattleTech games due out in 2018 and both of them are being sued for copyright infringement, despite the fact that one of them is being made by BattleTech’s original creator.

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