Board Thread:Young Justice News/@comment-47881-20130128165351/@comment-1895174-20130130024307

Banan14kab wrote: Well Paramount owns half of CW since it had UPN before.

Actually, CBS owns the other 50% of The CW. But the 50% of the channel owned by Time Warner is enough that they don't have to license it.

A company only has to license its properties when they can't produce something they want to make and another company can. This is what Marvel Comics did from the mid-90s through late last decade to give us things like Sam Raimi's Spider-Man. There's no reason for Warner Bros. (the subsidiary of Time Warner that Cartoon Network, The CW, and DC Comics are all a part of) to license a bunch of characters to itself.