Board Thread:Young Justice News/@comment-47881-20130128165351/@comment-4928331-20130130024808

Just because they have the same owner (Time Warner) does not mean both sides don't charge transfer prices to each other.

Consider this: if someone else other than Cartoon Network were running a Young Justice show, you bet your britches DC is going to charge licensing fees. Just because CN is an affiliate doesn't mean DC isn't going to charge those fees nonetheless.

As I said, Time Warner is running CN and DC separately. If you were a CN executive, your performance would be evaluated based on CN's profitability. Same goes for DC execs. Therefore, DC execs will not be willing to let CN use the characters for free, even if CN were a sister company!

As for Arrow and Smallville airing on CW, that doesn't mean no transfer pricing is going on. As corporate siblings, CW maybe has first dibs on use of DC characters for live-action TV adaptations. It doesn't mean they get it for free.