On IDW "losing" the license: I REALLY don't think IDW lost the Angel-license in the way that their contract with Fox was running out. Brian Lynch had a Spike series planned to run for a very long time, see a Q&A on IDW's forum. Passing over the license was to honour the wishes of Joss, to have both series, Angel and Buffy, published with only one company. And IDW's got the rights to reprint all their Angel stuff forever (which is unheard of, when it comes to licensed property), so Fox and Dark Horse had to give something back, in order for IDW to cancel their rights for maybe a three year contract (just guessing here) to publish Angel & Spike comics. Let's just call it a Gentleman's agreement between Joss, Fox, IDW and Dark Horse.
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Date: 2011-05-13 08:30 am (UTC)I REALLY don't think IDW lost the Angel-license in the way that their contract with Fox was running out. Brian Lynch had a Spike series planned to run for a very long time, see a Q&A on IDW's forum. Passing over the license was to honour the wishes of Joss, to have both series, Angel and Buffy, published with only one company. And IDW's got the rights to reprint all their Angel stuff forever (which is unheard of, when it comes to licensed property), so Fox and Dark Horse had to give something back, in order for IDW to cancel their rights for maybe a three year contract (just guessing here) to publish Angel & Spike comics.
Let's just call it a Gentleman's agreement between Joss, Fox, IDW and Dark Horse.
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