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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 8011124" data-attributes="member: 6689464">I don't think they will ever sell the DC publication rights. Licensing them is a possibility, but I doubt they would get rid of the characters, stories and plots. They are very important IP that is currently generating money just by being held on to without having to do a thing. Overseas reprinting licenses are a thing, and reprints of key books like the killing joke, watchmen, death of superman and crisis on infinite earths are still selling well every year, these are evergreen.Selling the publication rights also means selling the control over the underlying IP. Movies, Tv shows, games, and park rides are all derivatives of an original IP that is in comic book form way back when neither of these media existed. The only reason Warner can exploit and sell and license these right now is because they own the right to the original media. No more control over the original media means they won't be able to license rights over any new kind of media that might emerge in the future.Worst case scenario would be no more new comics are ever produced, and Warner keeps selling digital back issue  and trade paper backs for another hundred years. On a better world, someone manages to pony up enough to purchase a license to make new comics and takes all of the risk. On the best of worlds, DC remains a thing, but in a reduced fashion, selling new stuff digitally and in weekly anthologies on Walmarts and maybe some grocery stores, maybe the direct market somehow manages to survive too.It remains to be seen if IDW manages to survive this year. They've had a couple of bad years and were hanging from a thread even before the current crisis. Image doesn't do licenses, and Marvel's continued existence relies on Disney Money. Maybe Dark Horse could hope to get the rights some day?Speaking of all this, which publisher has the DC rights in Spain? I know it used to be Novaro and then Norma, but they lost rights at some point of the last decade?</blockquote>

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