agila61 wrote:
If a company owns the Spanish language rights in Mexico, they likely either own the full Spanish language rights, or else obtained the Mexican rights from the original holder of the Spanish language rights ... as, for example, Funimation typically buys English Language rights then onsells the UK and Australian rights to local distributors when it can.
Nope rights are by country, not language.
They might pay the other licensor to use their dub/ subs* if they don't want to make their own.
FUNi does get multi-country rights for some titles, definatley not everything though.
Manga did some very long tweets about this a while back.
If FUNi have UK or Au rights, the local distro (Manga or Madman) goes to them and discuss possible contract terms. If they look ok FUNi then talk to the Japanese licensor to see wether they're ok with Manga/Madman getting the distro licence. All three parties then get toghter to go over the contracts, Manga/Madman end up paying royalties straight to Japan (not just to FUNi). Assume this is because they're charged per copy sold (with a set minimum overall, payed advance) , so they need to keep all the sales numbers visible.
If FUNi don't have Au/UK rights distro goes straight to Japanese company. They then seperatly license the dub off FUNi.
*not sure if subs are always owned by the Japanese licensee (regardless of who made them), or if they default to them after a time. Dubs are part owned by who made them, due to being creative work, acting, directing etc. involved.
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