Batman/Superman Legalities

So, aparently WB cant use certain characters from Batman in Arrow because of The new Gotham show.

What will that mean for Batman v Superman?

Do i have my info wrong?

Me confused

Yeah, I am pretty sure Arrow and Flash and Gotham are NOT to be part of the DCCU.

Yeah, Gotham isn't even going to speak of Batman.

Not a battle

Arrow and flash are trying to be a part of dc but the problem is nightwings appearance in arrow and the new bat vs suPes movie. Gotham is a weird random thing

@nerdchore: Has Nightwing been confirmed for Arrow?

@xwraith: sort of. They were eiher going to introduce h8m their or have his own spinoff show like arrow and flash. But the actor they had planned for that is different than the one they have for the bats vs supes movie. So fans are bit pissed that they arent trying to combine the obvious success of the tv shows with the staryibg success of dc movies.

@saren@sc@god_spawn

Can you move this to general? I dont know what the hell is going on, every time I try to put a thread In general it ends up here..

well, NW in arrow would be ok, the only thing not owned by WB is gotham IIRC

Sorry, some sight glitch.... this happened to me twice, I even checked to make sure I was in general this time because of that...

This isn't really a legal issue. WB owns all of it.

Oh you are talking about WB's ban on how people (such as TV producers, animators etc) can use their DC characters in different media under WB's control. Yeah Batman isn't allowed on TV (unless WB want them there but Gotham is the exception) for example on Smallville, Green Arrow was used to replace Batman even though the creators asked for Batman (Arrow can do its own things but if WB is using that character on the big screen then they can't use it.) To WB, Batman belongs on the big screen and that where has to be used. Superman had less of a ban partly due to the 90s/2000s but he's slowly been only gonna be on the big screen only. I still think Batman isn't allowed of use on the CW though.

Also it isn't legal its all about compromise, if WB won't let you use Batman on a show then you have to use an alternative as I said before like Smallville. But we still aren't sure if they're combining TV/Movies together are we. WB/DC are different beast from Marvel/Disney remember.

IIRC, DC has said they are keeping Cinematic and Televised as separate entities, but are relaxing restrictions on who they can use. Not sure if they are going to do it the way Law & Order did, or just recast and reuse characters.

@xwraith: No, he was never confirmed at all. I think one of the writers or something said a while back that they wanted him to appear, but that's far from being confirmed.