Editing BattleTech (section)

===After FASA===
After the FASA Corporation closed in 2000, Wizkids bought the rights to the game in January 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theminiaturespage.com/news/?id=704940|title=Wizkids Acquires Battletech|date=January 25, 2001|website=The Miniatures Page|access-date=June 6, 2018}}</ref> They reworked the IP to launch their [[MechWarrior: Dark Age]] collectible miniatures game, but licensed the rights to continue to publish products for the old game to FanPro (itself a subsidiary of [[Fantasy Productions]]).  Topps bought Wizkids in 2003, but this did not change any publishing agreements at that time. FanPro held the license to the original tabletop game (which they rebranded as "Classic BattleTech") until 2007. At that point [[Catalyst Game Labs]] (CGL) acquired the license from Topps.  CGL continues to hold the license to this day; with the end of the ''MechWarrior: Dark Age'' miniatures game, the name of the traditional tabletop game has reverted to simply ''BattleTech''.

On June 24, 2009, Catalyst Game Labs announced that they had secured the rights to the "Unseen" art. As a result, art depicting the original 'Mechs could be legally used again.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.catalystgamelabs.com/|title=Catalyst Game Labs|website=Catalyst Game Labs}}</ref>  However, an update on August 11, 2009, stated that the part of the deal regarding designs that originated in images from ''Macross'' had fallen through, returning the original images to Unseen status once again.  Since then, designs that originated in images from ''Dougram'' and ''Crusher Joe'' are no longer considered Unseen.<ref>[http://battletech.catalystgamelabs.com/2009/08/10/sometimes-things-just-dont-go-as-we-want-them-to/ Sometimes Things Just Don't Go As We Want Them To {{pipe}} BattleTech: 25 Years of Heavy Metal Mayhem] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226140916/http://battletech.catalystgamelabs.com/2009/08/10/sometimes-things-just-dont-go-as-we-want-them-to/ |date=February 26, 2012 }}</ref>