Atualizando isso conforme encontro informações adicionais.
Quanto à sua primeira pergunta, que possui a propriedade intelectual Dragonlance, que parece ter sido sempre a Wizards of the Coast. De acordo com Tracy Hickman, o co-autor da trilogia principal:
We were not unique in this: everyone working at the company at the
time was under similar constrictions. We were being paid to create and
play games and it was a condition of that employment that we hand over
our rights to our creations. Those rights were sold as part of the
purchase of TSR, Inc. by Wizards of the Coast and then subsequently
owned by Hasbro when they acquired the company as a subsidiary.
Quanto à sua segunda pergunta, sobre uma batalha judicial entre Weis e WotC, não consegui encontrar nenhuma menção a esse caso. O mais próximo que encontrei foi esta:
Wizards continued to publish Dragonlance novels throughout the ‘00s, but they opted not to release additional gaming books. Instead, they licensed those rights out to Weis’s own company, Margaret Weis Productions (originally: Sovereign Press). The result was the most prolific period of Dragonlance publication since the early ‘90s.
De acordo com a Wikipedia, esses direitos de licença revertidos para a Wizards of the Coast no 2008.