Nintendo still holds legal power over GoldenEye 007

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patjuan32 said:
Nintendo and Rare do not own the rights to GoldenEye. After the game was released Nintendo did not renew the license with MGM and this is how EA purchased the license to make 007: The World is Not Enough and subsequent games based off of the James Bond license.

Furthermore, any game code, characters, and the title of games made from the use of a licensed property belongs to the licensee which is MGM or its parent company. Then their is also the Right's to use Piers Brosnan's image that must be secured.

Therefore Nintendo nor Rare own the rights to GoldenEye or anything pertaining to the game i.e. game code or characters or maps.


The race for the N64 rights to James Bond 19: The World is Not Enough is on:

http://ign64.ign.com/articles/066/066355p1.html


No More Bond for Rare:

http://ign64.ign.com/articles/061/061742p1.html

Not entirely true. License rights are a bit more complicated than that and usually, the code stays with the original creators. The only problem is that if the licenser is being difficult, the code is basically worthless to the holder because they can't use the game for anything.

After all, Perfect Dark did use the same engine as Goldeneye. If the code was locked up and owned by MGM, there would have been a sticky legal situation by re-using the Goldeneye code.