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Stan Lee Media and Disney Battle For Ownership of Marvel Characters

Posted by samzenpus on from the mine-now-I-take-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Stan Lee Media and The Walt Disney Co. have taken their arguments to the U.S. Court of Appeals over who owns the rights (and profits) to Marvel characters. Though Disney bought Marvel in 2009, Stan Lee Media (no longer associated with Stan Lee, himself) still claims copyright of the characters."

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  1. Re:We can be certain of one thing by ZombieBraintrust · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If I pay you to create something why would you own it? If you want to own your copyrights then don't sell them.

  2. Re:We can be certain of one thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >If I pay you to create something why would you own it?

    Millions of Americans who have professional wedding photos would like to know.

  3. And people who write software by Crashmarik · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't usually own the copyright to the code, when they are doing it for another company.
    I get you aren't happy with the balance of power in this but remember the people who created those characters actually did give up their rights to them for payment. If you want to change the laws to give them greater protection consider you may actually be taking away their ability to sell their work and make a living.