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A few years later Sega demands more money for the Sonic license and the Archie CEO says no because "Sonic isn't Archie".Sonic 2 is a much longer game than its predecessor, boasting over ten wildly varied Zones for Sonic to speed through.
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In 2010 he claimed copyright on all the characters he created for the Archie comic and they were approved His reply was unequivocal: “Absolutely, your Honor.” “So are you saying prior counsel blew it?” the presiding judge asked Archie counsel Joshua Paul in a May 2013 court session. Making things worse, Archie couldn’t produce an original copy of any previous contributor’s contract, meaning that any writer or artist who had worked on the Archie Sonic line could potentially follow in Penders’s footsteps and reclaim their work. That it was neither an original copy nor a contract from the beginning of the writer’s tenure at Archie meant that its validity was questionable.
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A heavily circulated Tumblr post outlining the case (which has been corroborated as a reliable source by Penders) explains that while Archie did provide a photocopy of a contract allegedly signed by Penders in 1996, Penders claimed that the document was a forgery. Penders claimed the contract had never existed. The company had been unable to produce Penders’ work-for-hire contract, which would have given control of his creations to Sega. The comics continued under Flynn’s direction as if nothing happened, but things started looking grim in late 2012, when Archie suddenly fired its entire legal team. (Penders also has a habit of requesting fans include a copyright notice when posting fan art or fan fiction of his characters.) The case was dismissed (twice), but the threat of further legal action means that the cast of The Dark Brotherhood will likely never be seen again, bolstering some fans’ perception of Penders as a copyright troll. Penders argued that without his blessing, this homage was a form of copyright infringement. Several years prior, EA studio Bioware had released Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, a Nintendo DS game with new echidna villains clearly inspired by the comics’ Dark Legion. To complicate things further, Penders filed a separate lawsuit against Sega and video-game publisher Electronic Arts in 2011. On November 23, 2010, Archie filed a federal lawsuit against Penders, claiming he had breached his contract. This was a problem for Archie and Sega, who were still reprinting Penders’s old stories and using the 200-plus characters he had introduced. In 2009, Penders began copyrighting his Sonic work, with the intention of independently continuing “Mobius: 25 Years Later.” In 2010, the copyrights were approved. The Penders situation also damaged their relationship, which probably hurt negotiations A few years later Sega demands more money for the Sonic license and the Archie CEO says no because "Sonic isn't Archie". This led to Archie rebooting the Sonic universe and removing his characters Archie's could never find his contract(which Penders claimed to never exist) and ended up providing what Penders claims to be a forgery in court leading to them firing their whole legal team This led to fans turning on him bolstered his reputation of being a copyright troll The Chronicles lawsuit got dismissed twice, but he threatened another lawsuit Penders then sued both Sega and EA in 2011 for Chronicles. This screwed over Sega and Archie because he created over 200 characters, so they filed a lawsuit against him because they claimed it was a breech of contract Click to shrink.-In 2010 he claimed copyright on all the characters he created for the Archie comic and they were approved