exA Arcadia, a niche arcade publisher who's controversial for their "no home ports" policy, is in the news for a weird dispute: two different companies seem to be claiming to have the license for the same game and are fighting over it.
The short version is - this was a freeware fighting game, and a small company called Eigomanga gave it an English Steam release back in 2014. Then at this year's Evo Japan, exA announces a new arcade-exclusive update, and both companies start issuing takedowns to each other. Sure not clear what rights Eigomanga think they have.
The real twist is that exA don't actually have access to the original dev - according to their site this was licensed under Japan's orphan works law, which means they failed to get in touch with the owner and instead licensed it through the Ministry of Culture. Which is a weird extra wrinkle in the whole thing. It's not the only recent game they're rereleasing that way, too - their new version of Air Gallet was licensed that way.
