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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:Background material: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    So this co-founder "fled to South America to avoid" ... "prosecution" (in the US courts), and is now using the US courts to sue for money?
    The US courts should say, "this case ain't goin' anywhere until the founder signs the dotted line, personally."

    If this violates the person's American (USA) rights... so be it. Who cares? This person is hiding out in South America, and therefore should not have the right to be using the resources of the American government('s court system) in an effort to extract money from an American company.

    Our government is stupid beyond all comparison if we, as a nation, allow our money to flow to South America in this case.
    (Granted, that was a kind of pointless statement, because our government is stupid beyond all comparison either way...)