I imagine, as a way of avoiding any potential claim of copyright infringement in potential future releases, such a theoretical offering would only have home-made characters. The same way the only heroes and villains that appeared in the mainstream CoX game were their own creations. It wouldn't be worth the hassle of someone seeing *their* creation on a box cover somewhere and slapping a lawsuit on them.
So I strongly suspect that if you tried this, all you'd get is a blanket agreement not to use fan-created characters in future works without purchasing the rights first, and a counter-suit for harassment.
I'd avoid the lawsuit angle. Anyone with millions of dollars to spend is going to win. That's just the ugly truth to court battles. He with the most money usually wins.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.
So I strongly suspect that if you tried this, all you'd get is a blanket agreement not to use fan-created characters in future works without purchasing the rights first, and a counter-suit for harassment.
I'd avoid the lawsuit angle. Anyone with millions of dollars to spend is going to win. That's just the ugly truth to court battles. He with the most money usually wins.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.