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* Music/WeirdAlYankovic first signed onto Creator/CapitolRecords, through whom he released his debut single, "My Bologna". Shortly after, however, Al learned that Capitol were uninterested in promoting him and released the EP ''Another One Rides the Bus'' himself under the one-off vanity label Placebo Records, later earning a distribution deal with TK Records. However, TK quickly went under, leading Al to sign with Scotti Bros, who put him under the imprint Rock 'n Roll Records. This deal continued for the rest of the '80s until Scotti Bros. moved him under their main wing starting with ''Music/OffTheDeepEnd''. In 1999, Al moved over to Volcano Records and stayed there for the next 15 years, moving over to Creator/RCARecords for ''Music/MandatoryFun'' in 2014.

* The ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'' toy license originated with Creator/{{Mattel}}, who held it at the height of the franchise's popularity in the mid-1980s. After a long hiatus, in 1997 a small, obscure company called Up Up & Away gained the license and attempted to relaunch the franchise, but their attempt wasn't successful. In 2003, another obscure company named [=ToyPlay=] gained the license, releasing a range of toys that closely matched the original Mattel designs. In 2009, Playmates acquired the license and attempted another relaunch, which also was unsuccessful. Later on in the mid-to-late-2010s, the property's owner Hallmark released their own range of toys for the franchise, including plushies and themed Itty Bittys.

* Music/TheBeatles were originally singed to Creator/ParlophoneRecords in the UK and Creator/CapitolRecords in the US, but left them in 1968 upon opening their own vanity label, Apple Records, staying there even into their post-breakup solo careers. Creator/{{EMI}}, Parlophone's parent company, distributed Apple until 1976, after which the label was absorbed and the band members shifted to various other labels. Music/JohnLennon, Music/GeorgeHarrison, and Music/RingoStarr had already respectively moved to Creator/GeffenRecords, Creator/WarnerBrosRecords, and Portrait Records, while Music/PaulMcCartney and Music/{{Wings}} would move back to Parlophone in the UK and to Creator/ColumbiaRecords in the US. [=McCartney=] would eventually return to Capitol Stateside as well in 1985. Lennon and Harrison's solo albums returned to Capitol/EMI/Universal by 2010, while the remainder of [=McCartney's=] solo catalog didn't return to Capitol until his contract with Concord Music ended in January 2017. Starr's discography remains scattered across different labels (including Capitol, Creator/AtlanticRecords, Creator/EpicRecords, and Koch).

* The ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'' toy license originated with Creator/{{Mattel}}, who held it at the height of the franchise's popularity in the mid-1980s. After a long hiatus, in 1997 a small, obscure company called Up Up & Away gained the license and attempted to relaunch the franchise, but their attempt wasn't successful. In 2003, another obscure company named [=ToyPlay=] gained the license, releasing a range of toys that closely matched the original Mattel designs. In 2009, Playmates acquired the license and attempted another relaunch, which also was unsuccessful.

* [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin Teddy Ruxpin]] was first made by Worlds of Wonder from 1985-1991. When they went bankrupt, Hasbro, under their Playskool banner, distributed the version that Worlds of Wonder had introduced three years prior. Yes! Entertainment made a version of toy in 1998, followed by Backpack Toys and Wicked Cool Toys, who currently owns the rights.

* Toys/LittlestPetShop: Originally started out under Kenner, then a Hasbro subsidiary, in the 90s. Upon the 2005 relaunch, Hasbro itself began producing the line. In 2022, Hasbro announced [https://kidscreen.com/2022/11/15/basic-fun-to-relaunch-hasbros-littlest-pet-shop/ it had loaned the rights to the franchise out to Basic Fun], with a planned 2024 relaunch date, as part of a broader outsourcing invitivate by Hasbro.

* In 2022, Hasbro [https://investor.hasbro.com/news-releases/news-release-details/hasbro-announces-plan-grow-profit-50-over-next-three-years announced it had begun a new strategy of licensing its brands out to partners], which resulted in some major changes for its franchises. Hasbro licensed out the rights to ''Toys/LittlestPetShop'' to Basic Fun with a planned 2024 relaunch date, while Hasbro sold the construction toy rights for ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', previously under their long-dormant Kreo brand, to Creator/{{Lego}}, who released the 10302 Optimus Prime set.

* The ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'' toy license originated with Creator/{{Mattel}}, who held it at the height of the franchise's popularity in the mid-1980s. After a long hiatus, in 1997 a small, obscre company called Up Up & Away gained the license and attempted to relaunch the franchise, but their attempt wasn't successful. In 2003, another obscure company named [=ToyPlay=] gained the license, releasing a range of toys that closely matched the original Mattel designs. In 2009, Playmates acquired the license and attempted another relaunch, which also was unsuccessful.

* Toys/LittlestPetShop: Again, originally started out on Kenner in the 90s. Then, after the purchase of the company, Hasbro acquired the rights to the franchise from 2005 onwards.

* Creator/SesameWorkshop, then the Children's Television Workshop, historically licensed the production of toys based on ''Series/SesameStreet'' and their other franchises to Fisher-Price. However, in the early 90s, they moved to Playskool. Later they switched to Tyco, before going back to Fisher-Price once their parent company Creator/{{Mattel}} acquired the company. They held onto the license for the entirety of the 2000s, before switching back to Playskool again. Playskool is set to retain the license until 2023, when Florida based manufacturer Just Play will obtain the rights.

* WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake: Originally started out on Kenner like Care Bears, but then eventually lost steam due to neglect of the franchise. The license was sold to Bandai in the early 2000s, who like Play-Along managed to bring the series back to profitability. Then executive meddling happened and the license went from Bandai to Playmates Toys. The [[ExecutiveMeddling decision]] by Playmates to revamp the franchise [[note]]Namely, aging the girls up, deleting the established and loved fillies and replacing them with bland generic ones, and bring back the purple Pie-Man[[/note]] had a negative effect on the fanbase. Coupled with the poor availability of the toys due to distribution issues, the franchise started to collapse. The rights were then revoked and sold to Hasbro (which happened at the same time as Play-Along losing the rights to Care Bears to also Hasbro), who while initially gave the series excellent treatment, started to slide because the toys weren't moving [[note]]moving the cartoon series from Disney to Cartoon Network in Asia, Europe, and Oceania- who then proceeded to air them on CN's sister channel Boomerang instead- wasn't a smart move due to said channel being unavailable in several countries, although some speculated that like the Care Bears example above, the unexpected rise of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic another one of their franchises]] and its extremely vocal fandom was another cause of this. Additionally, Hasbro made an announcement that they will be purging all non-fruit-themed characters from the franchise, and proceeded to list the names of characters that have been purged -- which angered fans of Ginger Snap, Angel Cake, and Apple Dumplin' (which was ironically used as a spokeslady for selling fresh apples back in 2003). Lastly, memories of the 2003 series were still fresh in the fandom's mind (DVD releases of the 2003 series dragged on until 2012, and are in fact still available on demand from several outlets), and they want their beloved characters, pets and fillies back[[/note]]. This had a net result of the rights being revoked at around the same time as the Care Bears'. The rights was then given to another upstart called Bridge Direct, a company with limited distribution coverage.
** And on a higher level, American Greetings finally relinquished the rights of Strawberry Shortcake to Iconix Brands in April 2015. This is noticeable since all pictures posted to social networks since has the copyright of "SBSC" (Strawberry Shortcake Holdings, an Iconix company) instead of "TCFC" (Those Characters From Cleveland, an American Greetings company).

* Each solo member of Music/TheBeatles stayed with Capitol/EMI for the beginning of their solo/post-Beatles careers (as per their eight-year contracts to EMI in 1967 while still working as a group), but after the dissolution of Apple Records in 1975, each jumped ship; John, George, and Ringo in 1975 (for Creator/GeffenRecords, Creator/WarnerBrosRecords and Portrait respectively), and Paul/Wings in 1979 for Creator/ColumbiaRecords (in the US and Canada; he stayed with EMI worldwide, and eventually returned to Capitol in the US). John and George's solo albums had already returned to Capitol/EMI/Universal by 2010. Paul's solo catalog didn't return to Capitol until his contract with Concord Music ended in January 2017. Ringo's discography remains scattered across different labels (including Capitol, Atlantic, Epic, and Koch).

* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' is a Creator/{{Sega}}-owned franchise, but Creator/{{Nintendo}} owns the publishing rights for ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'' onwards, as part of their agreement to fund the development of those titles.

* Ironically, also in the US, toys for ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' also started with Bandai, then with Playmates Toys years later. Averted in Japan, where Bandai still makes the toys there (albeit later than the US, and at the same time the Playmates versions are being sold outside Japan).

* Creator/IOInteractive and their ''Franchise/{{Hitman}}'' franchise was infamously put in a very precarious situation following the release of ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'', which was intended to be [[EpisodicGame released episodically]], with their first season being published by Creator/SquareEnix. However, following season 1's release and during the production of season 2, [[ScrewedByTheNetwork IOI was dropped by Square Enix]], the latter citing the game's financial underperformance as to why. IOI surprisingly managed to maintain the IP rights to ''Hitman'' during the split, and progress on the game continued under the wing of Creator/WarnerBrosInteractiveEntertainment, [[NetworkToTheRescue who allowed them to complete the game in exchange for publication rights and a revenue cut]]. Once the season 2 -- abandoning the episodic release structure in favor of being a standalone title, ''VideoGame/Hitman2'' -- was released to much greater financial success, IOI was in a much better position to release the final "season", ''VideoGame/Hitman3'' -- and in turn the collective ''VideoGame/WorldOfAssassinationTrilogy -- as a fully independent company.

** Creator/PhilipsRecords[=/=]Creator/MercuryRecords (1969-1971)[[note]]Bowie's contract was with Mercury, who were owned by Philips, so the ''Music/SpaceOddity'' album was on Philips on some countries and Mercury in others; ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld'' was originally released on Mercury worldwide. Bowie eventually left the label due to ExecutiveMeddling regarding the UK cover art of ''The Man Who Sold the World''; Bowie would take the master tapes and the legal rights for his Philips/Mercury recordings with him after leaving the labels.[[/note]]

* After releasing four albums on Creator/MercuryRecords (the third of which was put out under the Creator/FontanaRecords imprint), Music/TearsForFears switched to Creator/EpicRecords just before the commercial release of ''Music/RaoulAndTheKingsOfSpain'' (the move was so late, in fact, that early promo [=CDs=] were still on Mercury). The deal fell through after the album undersold, leading them to return to Mercury's parent company, Creator/UniversalMusicGroup, afterwards, jumping between various labels under their wing. ''Everybody Loves a Happy Ending'' would be released by New Door Records, the GreatestHitsAlbum ''Rule the World'' would be jointly put out by [[Creator/VirginRecords Virgin EMI]], Mercury, and [=UMe=], and their next studio album, ''The Tipping Point'', would be released through Concord Records.

* Creator/RobLiefeld's ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'' originated at Creator/ImageComics, but Liefeld eventually left the studio and brought them over to his own publishing house, Awesome Comics (where they were {{ReTool}}ed by Creator/AlanMoore). After Awesome folded, the characters (and Liefeld) returned to Image.
** Same goes for Glory, Liefeld's CaptainErsatz of Franchise/WonderWoman.

* Toys/PuppyInMyPocket and the other In My Pocket series are a rather funny case. The toyline has always been owned by Morrison Entertainment Group (MEG), though when it came to distribution it was tossed around different companies like a game of hot potato over the years. First, Hasbro had the rights to distributing the figurines in the 90s, then it was passed to Jakks Pacific in the early 2000s after a rebrand that turned the figurines into more cartoonish-looking, cute pets with flocking. In 2010, when the show, ''WesternAnimation/PuppyInMyPocketAdventuresInPocketville'', started airing in Europe and eventually made its way to US networks in 2012, the rights were split between Giochi Preziosi, who distributed their own line among European countries (including the UK), Flair, who distributed a completely different style of figurines for the UK markets, and Jakks Pacific continued with its US distribution (the figurines being the same as Flair's), though the figurines based on the show didn't make it to US markets until 2013 due to an unfortunate delay. Then in 2015, Just Play acquired the rights to distributing the toys.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' toys were mostly distributed by Creator/{{Hasbro}} from 1998 to 2005, Jakks Pacific from 2006 to 2013, Tomy from 2013 to 2017, and Wicked Cool Toys (a division of Jazwares) since 2017. However, Tomy (under the Takara Tomy brand) still distributes Pokémon toys in Japan.