Monday, August 17, 2009

Who owns Superman?

If you've followed this story, you know that once upon a time the creators of Superman owned, well, squat. Then things changed. It's a matter of intellectual property going to the creator versus the publisher. Judge for yourself.

....on Wednesday, Judge Stephen Larson awarded the Siegel family rights to more additional works, including the first two weeks of the daily Superman newspaper comicstrips, as well as the early Action Comics and Superman comicbooks. What this means is that the Siegels now control depictions of Superman’s origin story. Everything from the planet Krypton, his parents Jor-L and Lora, the launching of the infant Kal-L into space by his parents as Krypton is destroyed. More...

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