Editing Jump Ultimate Stars (section)

==Verboten==

Licensing in Japan works differently than it does in the USA. Whereas Japan issues licenses for works with enough leeway for developers to work on different projects without overlap, in the USA, signed-in-blood agreements that are wholly inviolable without massive legal action are the norm. What this generally means is that a developer overseas can produce under multiple studios with no ill effects, but one stateside is ball-and-chained to one studio trying to keep the IP all to itself. The problem arises when various studios have been used over time to produce multiple IPs all held by the same owner, as is the case for JUS.

Shonen Jump owns the IP for all the various works in JUS, but has, over time, used hundreds of developers to release its games stateside. Capcom released the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure games, for example, but Bandai did DBZ and Koei did Fist of the North Star. The end result is that Jump Ultimate Stars is a legal firestorm of biblical proportions, and that because of it, it will never see release outside of Japan.

....At least, not officially.