Talk:Rainbow Dash/@comment-25620871-20141222030825/@comment-2170890-20150202112231

Good point, but maybe they did know about G1 Firefly, but didn't put two and two together?

Either way, the point is that there may never have been copyright issues - they just didn't want Lauren to use any G1 names for whatever reason. This is supported by the following facts;

1. All the G1 names, are day to day words (semi-excluding Applejack), while the G3 and G4 names at least sound like they could be from something.

2. Applejack is the most likely name to be given copyright problems, because it is a brand name for a few things, yet it is the one name they left alone.

3. A book about G1 Firefly was released fairly recently (during season 4 of FIM) complete with a toy Firefly.

They never lost anything, they just didn't want Lauren to use them, probably because they didn't think going so far back into the past would help them (Applejack has a G3 counterpart, so she's not as "in the past" as the others - even though G3 Applejack did next to nothing). This isn't proven fact, but I and others suspect this.