I really don't know if this is news.

There is a scene in episode 1 Season 2 that aired tonight.
They are opening this contraption in the shuttle bay to catch a fragment of "dark matter"

It opened like a flower and during the process clear as day is the Transforming Sound.

 

Hasbro sue them for everything they have and make a mp depth charge.
Please?

 

Last season they stole the plot and a couple of characters from an indy video game as their main story and are getting sued for it. Guess they're still stealing things this year too. LOL

 

Isn’t the transforming sound effect copyrighted? IIRC, the producers of Beast Wars had to pay to use the effect in Agenda p3.

Then again, the G1 show used a bunch of SFX from the Star Wars movies, and AFAIK never got sued, so IDK how it works  

 

They're folding the Star Trek/Transformers crossover comic into the show!  

 

Hahaha I didn't catch that. I know which scene your talking about. I'll have to rewatch. Discovery kicked some ass last night. Fuck all the haters.

 

From what I've seen, Season 2 is basically stealing the plot from Mass Effect.

 

Why would a show intended to advertize Hasbro toys have to pay royalties for using a sound effect from another show intended to advertize Hasbro toys?

 

Right? So Hasbro had Mainframe pay them to use their own transforming sound effect in a Transformers show, which is already a vehicle to sell Transformers toys? Doesn't make sense.

 

Probably Mainframe paying Sunbow (now DiC at that time). Remember it was just in the past decade that Hasbro acquired sole rights to all Sunbow and other Transfomers media, with the apparent sole exception of Robots In Disguise 2001 (distribution rights still owned by Disney, AFAWK).

 

Probably. But the thing about sound effects is that you can, or could anyway, buy licenses to use them.

 

I also heard it and it was a really fun surprise. Hard to hear but it's there.

 

What do you mean the distribution rights for Robots in Disguise 2001 are still owned by Disney? Disney has never owned the rights in the first place.

Robots in Disguise 2001 aired on Fox Kids... and in fact was the last Transformers to be aired on Fox Kids before it changed over to the Fox Box and completely dropped Transformers from their line up.

Disney is only recently in the process of buying out Fox so how can they still own the rights to something that was never theirs in the first place?

If anyone would have the rights to that series it would be Fox since they were the ones who originally aired it but they haven't done anything with it since dropping Transformers from their line up. As we all know a company has to keep using the fiction to maintain the rights to it. That's the main reason they made that crappy Fant4stic movie is became they were about to loose the rights to Disney if they didn't make another movie. The rights must have reverted back to Hasbro by now for Transformers Robots in Disguise because Fox hasn't touched it in years... plus I doubt they'd be able to reuse the same title in 2015 on Cartoon Network if Fox or anyone else for that matter still had rights to it.

Long story short, Disney doesn't own anything relating to Transformers... at least not right now... unless you count Marvel/Transformers Crossovers or Star Wars Transformers Crossovers cause Disney owns both of those now but any main line Transformers cartoons have never once aired on Disney or any of their afflilited Networks such as ABC Family or whatever they're calling it now. I think ABC changed their name last year but I can't remember what to.

 

Newsflash, but the acquisition has been agreed to, and will be carried out sometime in February or March.

On top of that, the "crossovers" lines never featured any Transformers characters, but had transforming toys of the Marvel or Star Wars characters. Marvel had the rights to Transformers comics in the past, but now IDW holds that license, and it seems like Hasbro is too enamored with them to give Marvel another shot.

 

Freeform... that's the name I couldn't think of yesterday...

Also speaking of finding the Transformers sound in weird places, I was at the arcade in the family floor of Black Oak Casino last night and there was this spinning wheel thing that you press down on a handle and get tickets for prizes... well every time someone pressed down on the handle to spin that wheel it made the Transformers sound effect.

 

It isn't FOX that is the problem. Disney bought the rights to distribute Saban programs. Hasbro contracted Saban to do RiD, meaning Disney owned the rights to RiD in the mid 2000s. Saban reclaimed their rights to Power Rangers and sold them to Nickelodeon...but it doesn't seem like RiD was part of the deal. That means the rights to RiD may still be in Disney's hands, unfortunately. I'm sure Hasbro has interest in getting that back...but Disney must be asking a king's ransom for it or else it would've happened by now, I'd think.

 

OK but there's still the issue that a company has to maintain use of a copy right and Disney has never once Distributed anything using the Transformers brand so there's no way they could own the rights to it as they haven't bothered to produce a single thing using that brand. It's unlikely they ever had the copy right in the first place because Disney would not hesitate to keep churning out stuff to maintain that copy right if they ever had it. Disney is notorious for manipulating those laws to maintain their copy rights and trade marks pretty much forever because they'll do whatever they have to do to maintain their rights.

 

You're confusing trademarks and copyrights. Copyrights are default given to any original work, when you make something you automatically get the copyright to it and don't have to do anything to maintain it till your copyright sunsets after 75-120 years (depends on various factors). Unless you make a prior written agreement or legally transfer your copyright to someone else.

Trademarks have to be requested to the government and you have to prove you're actually using the trademark and not just squatting on it.

 

Not confusing anything just over simplifying... You just supported my initial argument.

 

No. Disney still has the copyrights to RID and will always have them until the copyright expiration date comes. They dont have to do anything to maintain it. They can literally sit on it in their vault for decades and decades. (But i will give you Disney is notorious for lobbying for pushing back the copyright expiration to keep Mickey from being public domain)