Intellectual Property Fiascos/Updates (TSR and Conan)

[S.E., Gray Mouser (Emeritus)]

Figured some folks here may be able to explain
(a) the ever-changing Conan IP ownership and...
(b) the fiasco's around TSR (all three versions)

Here are some links discussing those.

Conan IP: Funcom owns a lot now, from games to Netflix...
https://bleedingcool.com/games/funcom...
Excerpt:

""While our news is clearly covering the games side of things, which includes a new project in the works that they haven't revealed details on yet, this stretches far beyond gaming. Heroic Signatures will be carrying on on the licensing deals with companies such as Penguin Random House, Panini, Titan Books, Monolith, and Funcom. Marvel Entertainment is publishing a new Conan comic book every month, and there is also a Netflix series currently in the works for Conan, those projects are not going away, they're simply going to have a new company overseeing the IP."

TSR overview: D&D nows has ~3 versions of itself
https://d100news.com/2021/07/07/22-ju...
Excerpt:

"The first company called TSR (we’ll call TSR1), was founded by D&D co-creator Gary Gygax and Don Kaye in 1973 and was the original publisher of Dungeons & Dragons.

The second TSR (TSR2/Solarian Games), was formed by Jayson Elliot, with Gary Gygax’s sons, Luke & Ernie Gygax. Both junior Gygaxes would leave TSR2 a few years later in the middle of a legal battle between TSR2 and Gail Gygax, Gary’s widow, their step-mother. (One of oh-so-many legal battles involving one of the TSRs: the history of Dungeons & Dragons is a courtroom drama.)

And now we have the third TSR (TSR3), formed by Ernie Gygax, LaNasa and Dinehart, when TSR2 let their trademark lapse. The company announced Giantlands, a new fantasy game and (apparently) theme park, and a reboot of the Star Frontiers game (though TSR3 apparently does not own the copyright to the original game — only the trademark)."

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Oof... The course of true tabletop gaming never did run smooth!