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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9650970" data-attributes="member: 4534"><p>As crazy as it sounds, it can sometimes be very difficult to track down who owns a copyright or who has the rights to produce something.&nbsp; For one of their Grand Theft Auto games, Rock Star Games wanted to use a 1980 song called &quot;Walk the Night&quot; by a group called The Skatt Brothers.&nbsp; Rock Star had a heck of time tracking down who had the rights to the song so they could get permission to use it in their game.&nbsp; And copyright can get complicated because different company might have the rights to produce works based on it in different mediums.&nbsp; i.e.&nbsp; Someone might have the right to video games while another company has a right to books and games.&nbsp; Task Force Games has the rights to use Star Trek material just so long as they stick to material from the original series and the cartoon.&nbsp; It's just bizarre that they still have the rights to do this for almost 50 years now.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 9650970, member: 4534"] As crazy as it sounds, it can sometimes be very difficult to track down who owns a copyright or who has the rights to produce something. For one of their Grand Theft Auto games, Rock Star Games wanted to use a 1980 song called "Walk the Night" by a group called The Skatt Brothers. Rock Star had a heck of time tracking down who had the rights to the song so they could get permission to use it in their game. And copyright can get complicated because different company might have the rights to produce works based on it in different mediums. i.e. Someone might have the right to video games while another company has a right to books and games. Task Force Games has the rights to use Star Trek material just so long as they stick to material from the original series and the cartoon. It's just bizarre that they still have the rights to do this for almost 50 years now. [/QUOTE]

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