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Old October 31st, 2004, 02:49 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Darth Marley
The question is then, who gets the money when the rights are bought?
That would tell you who owns them.
In the Hatch books it states that: "Battlestar Galactica is a trademark and copyright of Universal Studios. All rights reserved."

But it always also states: "Based on the Universal Television series created by Glen A. Larson".

So I would surmise there is some contractual thing that says that it always has to be stipulated that Glen is the original creator, whether he gets a cut, I don't know.

This is also why Ronald D. Moore is credited with the "Developed by" credit in the new series as he only did an adaptation of the original material created by GAL.

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