Jack Kirby Estate Sues Everyone, Claims Ownership of Every Major Marvel Character


	Jack Kirby Estate Sues Everyone, Claims Ownership of Every Major Marvel Character

Lexica

9-22-2009 2:01 PM

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law, copyright, litigation, comic-books, disney

Lexica says:

As someone who hates and despises Disney's copyright-maximalism, allow me to just say "BWA-HA-HA-HA *snerk* Hee!"

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This could be a major problem for Disney, who recently purchased <A title="Posts tagged with Marvel" rel="tag" class="st_tag internal_tag" href="http://www.gamealmighty.com/tag/marvel">Marvel</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gamealmighty.com/jack-kirby-estate-sues-everyone-claims-ownership-of-every-major-marvel-character"><P>Under <A title="Posts tagged with copyright" rel="tag" class="st_tag internal_tag" href="http://www.gamealmighty.com/tag/copyright">copyright</A> law, the author or his heirs can begin a process to regain copyrights a certain period of years after the original grant. 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