Dragon ball copyright implications

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jurassicparklionkingfan

BUR #42135 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create implication dragon_ball_minus -> dragon_ball
create implication dragon_ball_z_dokkan_battle -> dragon_ball
create implication dragon_ball_legends -> dragon_ball
create implication dragon_ball_z_kami_to_kami -> dragon_ball_z
create implication dragon_ball_z_fukkatsu_no_f -> dragon_ball_z
create implication dragon_ball_multiverse -> dragon_ball

Some dragon ball copyright tags I found that for some reason don't imply dragon ball the series. Unless there's a reason these don't imply dragon ball.

(let me know if I did anything incorrect about this BUR).

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jurassicparklionkingfan user 1350253 Damian0358 sinapp Blookryynnn voiceofthecold notfrontloaded
Damian0358

Lyren said:

I don't know about this copyright, but with this logic shouldn't Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle also imply Dragon Ball Z instead then rather than Dragon Ball like this BUR did?

You'd think that, but unfortunately, it's a gacha game that includes everything from Z, to GT, to Super, to even the original Dragon Ball, so uh, no. The logic isn't based on name, it's based on franchise context. To this day, the two canon Z movies are still considered part of Z in the franchise even when its events have been incorporated into Super, which is why Fukkatsu no F has that third paragraph; meanwhile Dokkan Battle just used the name of the most prominent DB installment at the time of its release back in 2015 - the game even has both versions of Kami to Kami represented in it via different events.

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Damian0358

Hillside_Moose said in forum #434562:

How does Xenoverse 3 fit in with the other games? I'm already seeing people autotagging dragon_ball_xenoverse to DBX3 posts when the wiki mentions that tag is supposed to be a catch-all for the first two games.

We don't know yet. We barely know what they're going to do with the AGE 1000 setting, set 150 years after Xenoverse 1, 148 years after Xenoverse 2, and at the same time as Dragon Ball Online. The Time Patrol and Demon Realm that's been the broader focus of Xenoverse, Online, Dragon Ball Heroes, et al don't appear in the recent announcement trailer, with the immediate core cast seeming to be disassociated with them and moreso with Capsule Corp.

For all we know, we might have to seperate Xenoverse 1 and 2 from Xenoverse 3 in the future, and perhaps bring up topic #28291 for the former if the latter opts for its own unique setting. But given Towa and Mira appeared in Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, and Chronoa remains a fairly popular character in her own right, the extended 'Xeno' sphere has a decent chance of appearing in Xenoverse 3.

My take is that they wouldn't just use the Xenoverse name if they weren't planning on including them. I would've just nuked the initial copytag made and dumped it all in Xenoverse if not for the fact that the completely new cast would probably be harder to search for without it, including the new Bulma design, prompting Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 as a tag.

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