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NPR Blogs: Monkey See: Morning Shots: The Jack Kirby Lawsuit, ABBA's Honors, And Mona Lisa Smiles
Cinematical: Jack Kirby's Estate Sues Marvel For Copyright Control
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It's on! Kirby estate sues Marvel; copyrights to Iron Man, Spider-Man at stake -http://bit.ly/azVSdI 3/17/2010 |
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@ClaytonMorris It's on! Kirby estate sues Marvel; copyrights to Iron Man, Spider-Man at stake (new info) http://tinyurl.com/yeagl7e 3/16/2010 |
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we all knew it was coming...still...too bad: http://thresq.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/03/kirby-marvel-lawsuit.html 3/16/2010 |
Morning Shots: The Jack Kirby Lawsuit, ABBA's Honors, And Mona Lisa Smiles
NPR Blogs: Monkey See —
... • Jack Kirby's estate is suing Marvel (and Disney) trying to reestablish control (co-control, really) over Iron Man, Spider-Man, and other Men he worked to create. I'm not sure I want to be the person trying to make an alternate Iron Man movie right now, but that's why I'm not s powerful creator of iconic characters. ...
Jack Kirby's Estate Sues Marvel For Copyright Control
Cinematical —
... against anyone making profits on certain Marvel characters, including Disney, Paramount, Fox, Sony, Universal, and Hasbro. Kirby was co-creator of characters such as Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, X-Men, and the Fantastic Four, and his estate wants the copyrights and a share of the profits. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kirby's estate has now filed a lawsuit against Marvel to terminate their copyright. ...
House of Ideas Sued by Guy Who Came Up With Them
Vulture —
... could result in some nightmares for Marvel and its parent company, the Walt Disney Company, if the estate is successful in terminating the copyrights. The most difficult potential scenario would involve the Kirby estate winning the ability to license competing versions of the same characters, resulting in, say, Iron Man 3 facing off against a completely different Iron Man film from another studio in the same year, or a rival publisher putting out their Fantastic Four comics. [Esq/HR] ...
Kirby Estate Sues Marvel
Screen Rant —
... In September of 2009, the four children of comic legend Jack Kirby sent out 45 “notices of termination” to the companies currently making money off of their father’s creations, including Marvel, Disney, Sony, Fox and Universal. Now, The Hollywood Reporter tells us the suit has officially been filed, seeking declaratory relief (the simple declaration of the status of a matter in controversy) as well as copyright termination for certain properties and, of course, profits. Marvel already filed their own suit back in January, citing the ...
Jack Kirby’s estate sues Marvel Comics over rights to characters
News Briefs —
Marvel Comics’ Spidey-sense must be tingling. The estate of Jack Kirby, who co-created most of the comics behemoth’s most popular superheroes, is suing the company to terminate the copyrights on those characters, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s THR, Esq. ...
Kirby estates sue away
KillerFilm —
... Jack Kirby’s estate is going mad with potential power as they sue the pants off of Marvel, wanting to terminate the copyright to all of the properties the co-creator made within that comic book universe which include Captain America, X-Men and Fantastic Four among many others reports THR Esq. ...
Is Hollywood big enough for two Spideys?
Film | guardian.co.uk —
... For Hollywood studios, which have spent billions on the rights to icons such as Spider-Man and the Hulk, it is a nightmare scenario worse than any tale from the golden age of comic books. A forthcoming court case could hand the children of legendary ...
