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TOLKIEN & WARNER'S MAKE UP Posted: 010918
Warner Bros. Pictures and the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien have resolved a rights dispute involving the adaptations of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The basis of the dispute was over the “digital exploitation” in online slot machines and other games of the various fantasy characters from the films. The Tolkien estate and publisher HarperCollins claimed Warners never had the rights to license characters for such purposes and launched an $80 million lawsuit. Warners then countersued claiming the estate cost it ‘millions of dollars in license fees’ from merchandising when it filed the lawsuit. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed but both parties were happy and paid their own court costs.
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Bros. Pictures and the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien have resolved a rights dispute
involving the adaptations of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The basis of
the dispute was over the “digital exploitation” in online slot machines and
other games of the various fantasy characters from the films. The Tolkien estate
and publisher HarperCollins claimed Warners never had the rights to license
characters for such purposes and launched an $80 million lawsuit. Warners then
countersued claiming the estate cost it ‘millions of dollars in license fees’
from merchandising when it filed the lawsuit. The terms of the settlement were
not disclosed but both parties were happy and paid their own court costs. 
