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Mod edit: The details on the situation are still a bit murky. Many parties have speculated along the lines of the quoted Fomos article, but nothing is official yet.
http://www.fomos.kr/board/board.php?mode=read&keyno=117178&db=Global&cate=&page=1&field=&kwrd=
"The fight over the intellectual property rights seems to be coming to a close.The dispute between Blizzard and Kespa will be settled amicably as of now, and a license contract will be signed shortly.
The scheduled court date on the 13th has been delayed, the reason being the three parties, ongamenet,mbcgame, and Blizzard coming to an agreement.
Three parties are currently discussing the terms for a brighter future of e-sports in Korea. Ongament, and MBCgame will be at liberty to produce and sell starcraft contents, and open starcraft tournaments.
Both tv networks have agreed to give exposure to blizzard with the logo, and the license fee will be given to Blizzard each year, the fee is unspecified at this time. Initially Blizzard requested an unreasonable amount of at least \0,00,000,000? a year(proleague-both individual leagues included)and Kespa rejected the offer.
The dispute over the intellectual property rights surfaced when Blizzard gave GOMTV the exclusive rights over starcraft 1 and 2. The agreement is believed to have arrived due to starcraft2’s failure to be embraced by the Korean fans. We can certainly hope that the Korean e-sports looks brighter than ever!"
#finally
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Wait so it means Ongament and so on can broadcast sc2?
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Hm, does this mean that KESPA will be able to host SC2 tourneys as well?
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Is this for real? Great fucking news if that's the case! 
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Hell, it's about time.
Overused, yes, but so very appropriate.
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The agreement is believed to have arrived due to starcraft2’s failure to be embraced by the Korean fans.
That was quite a bold statement...
However i'm super happy that this stupid dispute is over
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United States7481 Posts
it's finally over, fantastic
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So what woud happen to GOMTV then?
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Northern Ireland2557 Posts
Yesssssss this is great news for eSports
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I won't fully believe it til I see the article better sourced. I saw the tweet from superdanielman and he links to his own news blurb. I'm just skeptical. I believe the stalemate is over, but have a hard time believing it's due to "SC2's failure to be embraced by the Korean fans"
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Dear lord please start now a Sc2 proleague
Would be so fucking nice, and Sc1 teams with Sc2 squads.
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While it's great that they are finally coming to an agreement, that news article/forum post is extremely biased toward KESPA. I would like to see a more neutral announcement (maybe when the deal is actually signed).
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So does this mean that we'll get more Korean SC2 tournaments? I'm very curious about the implications of this settlement.
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On May 09 2011 21:27 Takkara wrote:
I won't fully believe it til I see the article better sourced. I saw the tweet from superdanielman and he links to his own news blurb. I'm just skeptical. I believe the stalemate is over, but have a hard time believing it's due to "SC2's failure to be embraced by the Korean fans"
SC2 really isn't all that popular in Korea right now and that might have weakened Blizzard's position enough for them to concede with the belief that an agreement with KeSPA would help in that regard. Their goal is to preserve their place in the Korean eSports scene and promote their products, not to leech off a dying game.
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Man, the news just keeps getting better and better this month
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GOMTV still has the right to all broadcasting of SC2 in Korea. They just gave up their SC1 rights like a month ago? So if OGN og MBC wants to do anything SC2 they must pay money to GOMTV. But the likelyhood of that happening is properly bigger now when nobody is sueing them...
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Northern Ireland2557 Posts
Hmm reading over that article again, it is incredibly biased towards kespa.. ;/
SDM doesn't exactly like SC2/blizzard either
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EPT
