Jack Kirby Heirs Reclaim Marvel/Disney Rights

lbalbalba writes "Heirs to comic book legend Jack Kirby sent 45 notices of copyright termination to Marvel Entertainment, prospective Marvel buyer Disney, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, and others studios that that hold licensed media rights to Marvel characters. Some rights could revert to the heirs as soon as 2014, for characters that are among the hottest in Hollywood: The Incredible Hulk, The Mighty Thor, Iron Man, Spider-Man, The Avengers, and others. Among other things the heirs' demand could cause problems for Disney's as yet unconsummated purchase of Marvel."

Re:Wow!

[sakdoctor]

Newly discovered documents show that Hans Christian Andersen actually published his works under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike licence.

Disney made this press release: Oh shit!

Heir of the Dog!

[erroneus]

This is what the copyright kings might call "The Heir of the Dog that bit you in the ass."

This has to be some sort of play to get more money for the rights than they are already getting and I think they should certainly go for it.

Re:Hmm...

[Gerzel]

It won't be either. One will take the other's head and their memories after a long hard battle in a phenomena known as the quickening.

Re:Hmm...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yahoogle!

Re:Wow!

[Sebilrazen]

I got into that argument of semantics about 17 years ago in high school, she said rape meant the sex act, I said it could mean forcibly carried away.

She kept arguing so I raped her all the way to the dictionary. [reference.com]

Re:Wow!

[Xaositecte]

Burma Shave

Too Funny For Words

[Nom du Keyboard]

This is too funny for words. The very studios who have essentially screwed everyone else over with unconstitutional copyright "reforms" and "extensions" are now about to get royal screwings of their own. Not that any of this helps the common citizen or does anything to enhance the Public Domain, but it is still fun to watch.

Funniest statement of all is Disney's CYA about how they had already factored all of this in when they offered billions for Marvel.

Definitely the best thing since eBay bought Vonage without getting the rights to the code that runs it.

Re:Wow!

[Golddess]

Sounds like Kirby's looking for a little bit more of the pie he helped bake.

Didn't even RTFT, eh? :P

Re:Wow!

[jollyreaper]

Every fucking feature length cartoon of even a story like Pocahontas (which was so obnoxiusly inaccurate in every other respect) requires singing fucking animals

Whoooa, I think I missed that part! Are you sure you weren't watching the porn spoof, Poke-a-Hotass or something?

Re:Wow!

[TheoMurpse]

singing fucking teenyboppers, not singing fucking animals

Odd, considering that showing either on the Disney Channel is likely illegal.

Re:Hmm...

[testadicazzo]

Google =10^100.

micro = 10^-6.

Google*Microsoft = 10^96.

Would make for a queer company logo though...