Editing Villains and Vigilantes (section)

==2011 legal dispute==
The game's creators were involved in a legal dispute with Fantasy Games Unlimited since 2011. They claimed that Fantasy Games Unlimited, Inc. ceased to exist in 1991, and that their contract specified that in such an event the contracted publication rights would revert to them, and that therefore the current Fantasy Games Unlimited (which they claim is a separate legal entity, although with the same owner) had no right to sell ''V&V'' material.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3669/villains-vigilantes-creators-sue-games |title=Villains & Vigilantes Creators Sue Game's Publisher |date=4 August 2011 |access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref> A court case filed in U.S. Federal court, Arizona district (REFERENCE: case no. 2:2011-cv-02036) supported the claim by Fantasy Games Unlimited that the owner properly followed procedure to continue with the obligations of the New York business entity in continued operations as the Arizona entity. The case also asserted that at the time of its dissolution in New York, FGU was current on all obligations with that state and in good standing which then devolved into the entity now operating simply as Fantasy Games Unlimited.

A judgment given on July 11, 2012, on the first two counts of case no. 2:2011-cv-02036 in U.S. Federal court, Arizona district ruled in favor of [[Scott Bizar]] resulting in Jeff Dee and Jack Herman being found guilty of defamation and unfair business practice and causing unspecified damages to the plaintiff. More judgments on other counts were still pending as of that date. The judgment ordered (not withstanding any other punitive measures to be determined for damages on all counts) the defendants within 30 days to post conspicuously in every place on the internet a retraction/corrective measure where their false statements have been posted.

In January 2013, the U.S. District Court of Arizona found<ref>{{cite web|url=http://workbench.cadenhead.org/media/villains-and-vigilantes-lawsuit-judgment.pdf| title=Case 2:11-cv-02036-MEA Document 73 Filed 01/22/13 |access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref> that Jeff Dee and Jack Herman own all copyrights to ''Villains and Vigilantes'', including the previously contracted to Fantasy Games Unlimited. Additionally the court found that Fantasy Games Unlimited had been using Dee's and Herman's (the game creators') copyrighted material without permission by selling merchandise like T-shirts, comic books, and video games. Finally, the court found that Fantasy Games Unlimited had legally abandoned its trademark rights to the title "Villains and Vigilantes" due to disuse.