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Originally Posted by Black Leviathan
After hearing about Palladium's right to Robotech I've given up understanding how they licence products.
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Palladium doesn't have the rights to TMNT anything any more - that product line has been converted to "After the Bomb", a post-apocalyptic mutant-animal-rich setting with no mention of TMNT. I highly doubt they even had the rights for anything beyond making a TMNT RPG.
Typically a company doesn't sign over the rights to do "whatever, forever" for their IP (there are exceptions, of course). Most commonly they "lease" the IP for a specific list of products, or a set time period within a genre of products, and usually with review/oversight of the products. With media licenses they are usually further restricted by geography, distribution format, and/or language.
This is why you often see one-and-done product adaptations for RPGs - they literally only got the license for one product.