But no matter! Mr Lawsuit decided that based on a book that ranks around 7.8 million on Amazon from 2003, he owns the entire concept. Then one day it went away without explanation, despite being (from what I could tell), reasonably successful and well thought-of.Īnd now we know - a litigant (who is easily Googleable) without a lawyer - which is usually a sign that the legal arguments will be lacking in coherence and understanding of what the law actually is - sued on the basis that apparently anything that features zodiac-themed warriors belongs to him? For reference, he later sued Toei, on the basis that the English title of their Saint Seiya anime series, Knights Of The Zodiac, infringed somehow.įor reference, I first saw Saint Seiya in a hotel conference room on a nth-generation VHS copy around 1989, and even then it was known as Knights Of The Zodiac in English.
I never read it, but it was on my internal Check it out if the opportunity arises list I’m not of an age that grew up with magical girls and so it wasn’t top of my priorities. Zodiac Starforce was a Dark Horse series launched in 2015 by writer Kevin Panetta and artist Paulina Ganuchau. It’s too bad someone sued us for a million dollars saying we stole their idea and it cost us tens of thousands in legal fees and basically destroyed our will to make more I’m really proud of the work that Paulina and I put into this book
Did you see this today? Because I saw this today:
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