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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 4624595" data-attributes="member: 2525">OH, now I know where the confusion is coming from, and it's over the title "turnaround notice".  That's the name of a document, not a description of actual notice.  As far as I know, the judge did not hold that WB ever got actual notice from FOX.Here are the details on that document:Gordan in that paragraph is not a WB exec.  Gordon is the Golar company guy who bought some of the rights from Fox (and, as it turns out, also held an option on the rest of the rights that he did not exercise).  However, the judge did not find that WB had actual notice of Fox's rights and WB just ignored it (only that they should have known).  The judge would have to conduct a trial to find out if they had actual notice.Here is how I believe it happened: The execs at WB thought Gordan owned all the rights, and bought everything Gordon owned..  They were mistaken on Gordon owning all the rights.  And there are some good reasons and some bad reasons for that mistake.  Fox however did not let them know either.  In fact, Fox Execs were not even certain at the time that they retained those rights.Later, in separate negotiations over an entirely different matter (the Batman TV show), during the Watchmen production, Fox set to work on trying to find leverage for the negotiation, and figured out they probably still had some rights to Watchmen.  Is this a screw-up on WB's part? Yes.  But did WB actually think Fox owned the rights still? No, I think the WB execs thought they owned the rights properly, and were simply mistaken. Did Fox actually make the claim that they still owned the rights, before the movie went into actual production with WB? From what I know, no.</blockquote>

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