History Main / GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld

* The ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' franchise has a history of having soundtracks composed by Koichi Sugiyama since the first game, who avoided this by being the owner of his compositions. However, Sugiyama had a controversial history of not giving Creator/SquareEnix enough creative liberty to use his music the way they wanted, and that led to many games and localized versions having inferior, UsefulNotes/{{MIDI}} soundtracks, apparently because Sugiyama wanted to profit on concert tickets and record sales while leaving the actual games with low-quality synthetized music.

* The creators of ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' -- Elisabetta Gnone, Alessandro Barbucci, and Barbara Canepa -- struggled to get Disney Italia to greenlight the series in the first place and found themselves losing creative control as soon as it became a surprise hit, with the series going on to be more lighter and softer than they intended. Gnone, the writer of the team, would leave Disney to pursue a career writing children's books, while artists Barbucci and Canepa would leave to form their own comic book studio after unsuccessfully suing over the rights for the series in 2004. Of additional note is Francesco Artibani, a writer who had helped Gnone conceptualize the first story arc. Artibani was given full writing duties after the other three were removed from the comic, but upon the failure of the lawsuit, would leave Disney out of solidarity after issue 37.

** This extends to the legal use of the phrase "{{Muppet}}" itself. It used to refer to any character created by the Jim Henson Company, but now only refers to the characters in Disney's ''Muppets'' franchise and to the ''Sesame'' characters (who legally remain Muppets per an agreement between Sesame Workshop and Disney). Characters like those found in ''Series/FraggleRock'' or ''Film/TheHappytimeMurders'', which are completely owned by Henson, are only referred to as "puppets".