Okay, so the more I think about the rights to the Pac-Man characters, the more confused I get.
Who owns what?
I used to think all the Midway characters had copyright issues, but because the major ones besides Ms. Pac-Man appear in Minecraft, does that mean Bandai Namco owns them? Is it just Ms. Pac-Man who have these rights issues?
What about Sue and Tim, who fairly recently appeared in 256 and Sandbox Evolution? Are those just such generic names that they're able to get away with that?
What about the Hanna-Barbara cast? The only character from the HB cartoons to appear in games is Chomp-Chomp, (along with a couple of unnamed cameos from Sour Puss.) Is Chomp-Chomp owned by Hanna-Barbara or by Bandai Namco?
This shit's too confusing.