Tropes/Screwed by the Lawyers

Real Life

 * ArgosyMTM Group has become notorious for screwing subsidiaries’ attempts to get into spaces Ellen Peck is skeptical of, especially blockchain and NFTs. It’s gotten so bad that it deserves its own subpage.

Networks

 * The reason it took Mediacorp Channel 7 a whole year to launch. For context: Despite Mediacorp being a public broadcaster, it planned to launch its own channel in Borneo in 2006. There were already trailers teasing the new channel, but the launch was averted due to a last-minute dispute between Borneo's TMV (Natinonal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Authority) and Singapore's MDA (Media Development Authority) over broadcast ownership. The jury ruled in favor of Borneo's lawyers, but the ruling was overturned meaning this trope was averted just in time for the channel's launch to fall on July 7, 2007. Sadly, the new channel was short-lived and closed down only one year and 24 days after its launch - July 31, 2008.