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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 16508" data-attributes="member: 134">Of those 3 titles, my guess is Twister would be the easiest.  Reason being, it's always been owned by the same studio, it was one time property, and all the actors are still alive.  X-Files is trickier just considering the lawsuit it's creator brought against Fox for residuals.  If he had a tough going, you know the rest of it wouldn't be too easy.  Gilligan's would be the trickiest by far since most of the actors are dead, so you'd be dealing with their estates and whoever is in charge of that.  On top of that, I'm sure that property has changed hands numerous times so it's a question of do you only need to get clearance from whoever currently has ownership, or do you need to get it also from whoever owned it at the time the pin was made.I'd be curious to know how tricky the T2 table would be, considering the studio that made the movie went out of business.  I know it took a lot of wrangling of all the rights owners just to make T3, and after Salvation, it's now owned by yet another studio.  Again, do you only have to deal with those responsible at the time of the table being made, or do the new owners of the property inherit all that came before?I still maintain the 2 hardest and most expensive licenses to secure would be NBA Fastbreak, unless there's some large umbrella the entire league and all it's teams gets covered under (how does Madden do it?), and Guns 'N Roses cause you're never gonna get Axl to sign off on anything that will put coin in Slash's pocket ever again (thanks Guitar Hero!).</blockquote>

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