{"id":115880,"date":"2021-09-25T03:41:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T22:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.bullfrag.com\/marvel-will-start-a-legal-battle-to-maintain-the-rights-of-its-iconic-characters\/"},"modified":"2021-09-25T03:41:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T22:11:07","slug":"marvel-will-start-a-legal-battle-to-maintain-the-rights-of-its-iconic-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/marvel-will-start-a-legal-battle-to-maintain-the-rights-of-its-iconic-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel will start a legal battle to maintain the rights of its iconic characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Patrick S. Ditko, brother of the late cartoonist Steve Ditko &#8211; who was a co-creator of such popular characters as Spider-Man and Dr. Strange &#8211; has requested that the copyright under Disney control of both characters be terminated.  The measure was filed with the United States copyright office on August 26.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Disney did not sit idly by and now <strong>Marvel is preparing a lawsuit to ensure it retains ownership of several iconic characters, who were born in the comics and are part of its cinematic universe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>DO NOT STOP READING:<\/strong> Vans announces a horror collection for October!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Marvel will file a lawsuit against the heirs of creators such as Stan Lee, Steve Ditko and Gene Colan, in order to obtain a statement that establishes that, since the characters created by them arose under the model of works made to order, they do not would be eligible for termination of copyright.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In this way, <strong>Marvel and Disney seek to secure rights to Doctor Strange and Spiderman<\/strong>, who are directly involved with the request of Ditko, but also of other iconic characters of his franchise, such as <strong>Iron Man, Ant-Man, Hawkeye, Black Widow and Falcon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In this dispute, Marc Toberoff, the attorney who represented Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster in a lawsuit by Superman against DC Comics, will be in charge of defending the position of Patrick S. Ditko&#8217;s brother.  On the other hand, the Disney-Marvel lawsuit will be in the hands of Dan Petrocelli, the attorney who represented DC in the aforementioned Siegel and Schuster case.  In that case, the win went to DC.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Although in this type of legal conflict the large companies tend to be the winners, in case this time the opposite occurs, <strong>Marvel could lose the rights to some of its most popular Avengers in June 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n        FB.init({\n            appId            : '1451429171830585',\n            autoLogAppEvents : true,\n            xfbml            : true,\n            version          : 'v3.0'\n        });\n    };\n    (function(d, s, id){\n        var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n        if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n        js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n        js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n        fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick S. Ditko, brother of the late cartoonist Steve Ditko &#8211; who was a co-creator of such popular characters as Spider-Man and Dr. Strange &#8211; has requested that the copyright under Disney control of both characters be terminated. The measure was filed with the United States copyright office on August 26. 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