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Hatoful Boyfriend creator: "btw I’ve got no royalty payment for Hatoful Boyfriend from Epic since they acquired Mediatonic back in spring 2021" (twitter.com)

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

when they bought out Mediatonic they acquired the publishing rights, which is allegedly when he stopped getting royalty payments here. it also changed what platforms you can get the game on--previously it was available on a few other platforms--but these days you can only get the game on Epic or Steam

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be confirmed, but this sounds a bit like how Disney decided they didn't need to pay any more royalties to people who wrote Star Wars novelizations and original novels.

Like, "you don't have a contract with us, you had one with George Lucas before we bought Star Wars, it didn't transfer." Very shady, and probably a lot easier to pull when you're a huge corporation against a small creator.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

By that logic, "You don't have a contract with me, therefore you can't own my intellectual property," should also apply, no?

Like, if your intellectual property was given away on the basis of an ongoing royalty payment, and Disney decides not to honour that contract, then they can't keep the IP.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably true, but who's going to tell Disney's legal department?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Best of luck to you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

OK, we'll hold a collection for your funeral.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

🏴‍☠️🫡🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's how I feel about that too, of course. But somehow, looks like Disney got to have the cake and eat it too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've been lead to believe that Disneys legal department is feared even among other giant corporations.

They've been doing shady business for a long time and don't fuck around, I guess.