{"id":29955,"date":"2012-11-02T13:25:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T17:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=29955"},"modified":"2012-11-02T13:19:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T17:19:36","slug":"tatsunoko-sues-over-unauthorized-speed-racer-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/tatsunoko-sues-over-unauthorized-speed-racer-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatsunoko Sues Over Unauthorized Speed Racer Distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Speed_Racer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Speed_Racer-450x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Speed_Racer\" width=\"450\" height=\"175\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Speed_Racer-450x175.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Speed_Racer-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Speed_Racer.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anime studio Tatsunoko Production has filed a one-million dollar lawsuit against American company Speed Racer Enterprises (SRE) executives Michael S. Cisneros and James &#038; John Rocknowski. Tatsunoko claims that SRE&#8217;s distribution license for the Speed Racer\/Mach Go Go Go anime franchise expired in May 2011, yet SRE continued to represent, distribute, and exploit the license after May 2011, including sub-licensing the Speed Racer property to over a dozen other companies including Lions Gate and Toonz Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/2012\/10\/30\/51795.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Courthouse News Service<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anime studio Tatsunoko Production has filed a one-million dollar lawsuit against American company Speed Racer Enterprises (SRE) executives Michael S. Cisneros and James &#038; John Rocknowski. Tatsunoko claims that SRE&#8217;s distribution license for the Speed Racer\/Mach Go Go Go anime franchise expired in May 2011, yet SRE continued to represent, distribute, and exploit the license [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29957,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29955\/revisions\/29957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}