Purchasing a TV show adaptation rights, how does it work?

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Published on 2012-04-13T21:59:25Z Indexed on 2012/04/13 23:45 UTC
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Basically, I was thinking about a game based on a TV show, just for fun, and ended up thinking "well, it's not like it can be made anyway". Or can it?

In the present situation, developing a game by myself/ourselves on my/our free time, and then using crowdfunding to purchase the rights is not that crazy, if the show is really popular... and the rights not too expensive.

Purchasing the rights of the whole show is obiously a sh!tload of money, but what about adaptation rights? What is the range of price it can be? Is it a percentage of the full rights? Does it depend on the kind of adaptation (novel vs. toy vs. game)?

ps: if it can help answer, I was thinking about a MLPFIM retro RPG. Please don't laugh at me.

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