RobertScorpio
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...or Lex Luthor will get his wish; no more superman.
What if DC just kills off Superman? Do they get to use Lex Luthor/Supergirl/Powergirl/Krypto/Fortess of Solitude without having to pay the estate?
Rob
DC letting Superman go?
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...or Lex Luthor will get his wish; no more superman.
What if DC just kills off Superman? Do they get to use Lex Luthor/Supergirl/Powergirl/Krypto/Fortess of Solitude without having to pay the estate?
Rob
RobertScorpio
Pariah
As far as I can tell they wouldn’t have anything about Krypton, baby Kal-el and his parents. I think this means they would still be allowed Lex, this could mean supergirl and her origin depending who super girl is nowadays, I'm not familiar enough with power girl to comment though likewise I think they could get away with her.
It might make for an awesome comic this, just think 'The Death of Superman' you know again. Cept this time there aint no get out of jail free card, no resurrection, just one epic fight then bam, gone. Maybe even go all final crisis and have him sacrifice himself to save the cosmos and have him thus wiped from history gone, forgotten by all but the reader.
So did they lease or sale the character of Superman in '38? My understanding is they sold him, obviously if both parties understood in 1938 that it was a lease then that is an entirely different situation.
If it was that simple, I think the dispute would be over by now.
My example is more about how Intellectual Property works rather than "real" property, like a house.
They sold Superman rights. But they sold the rights knowing that copyrights only lasted 56 years at the time. Copyrights now last 95 years. And more importantly, when Congress extended the copyright law they gave the original creators the right to reclaim their work. That's what the Shuster and Siegel estates have done. Whether you think it's fair or not doesn't matter. They have followed US copyright law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman#Copyright_issues
that ain't gonna happen... and you can thank the riaa for most of that...
Honestly, who gives a frak?
Superman, Lois Lane, and the Superboy from Earth Prime all went into an eternal paradise to live happily ever after. THE END. And that happened about 24 years ago. And DC spit on the last of his legacy when they killed off the guy running around in his costume while they considered making it permanent and shifting their universe toward less-heroic and darker characters like the uberpopular (at the time) Spawn, and when they turned Hal Jordan into a genocidal maniac. None of the rest of this matters.
And yes, I AM aware of the Lucky Charms-like spectrum of Lantern rings and the way the current comics have dug the Golden Age Superman, GA Lois, and Superboy Prime up and skull?&*#ed their corpses - but I want no truck with it. Never happened. Not worth the paper it is printed on.
(Not that I'm bitter, or anything.
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Superman, Lois Lane, and the Superboy from Earth Prime all went into an eternal paradise to live happily ever after. THE END. And that happened about 24 years ago. And DC spit on the last of his legacy when they killed off the guy running around in his costume while they considered making it permanent and shifting their universe toward less-heroic and darker characters like the uberpopular (at the time) Spawn, and when they turned Hal Jordan into a genocidal maniac. None of the rest of this matters.
And yes, I AM aware of the Lucky Charms-like spectrum of Lantern rings and the way the current comics have dug the Golden Age Superman, GA Lois, and Superboy Prime up and skull?&*#ed their corpses - but I want no truck with it. Never happened. Not worth the paper it is printed on.
(Not that I'm bitter, or anything.
)
They dug up the Earth-2 Superman. The Golden Age Superman is something differrent.Honestly, who gives a frak?
Superman, Lois Lane, and the Superboy from Earth Prime all went into an eternal paradise to live happily ever after. THE END. And that happened about 24 years ago. And DC spit on the last of his legacy when they killed off the guy running around in his costume while they considered making it permanent and shifting their universe toward less-heroic and darker characters like the uberpopular (at the time) Spawn, and when they turned Hal Jordan into a genocidal maniac. None of the rest of this matters.
And yes, I AM aware of the Lucky Charms-like spectrum of Lantern rings and the way the current comics have dug the Golden Age Superman, GA Lois, and Superboy Prime up and skull?&*#ed their corpses - but I want no truck with it. Never happened. Not worth the paper it is printed on.
(Not that I'm bitter, or anything.
I know why you're saying that, but the history of the Earth-2 Superman is effectively the history of the Golden Age Superman. It's a difference that makes almost no difference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(Earth-Two)#Fictional_character_history
Maybe you should try understanding the case better. Then perhaps your analogies would make more sense.
But hey, maybe I just don't understand it. Educate me. Can you explain why DC started paying Siegel and Shuster pensions and health insurance in the 70's even though they were doing no work for them at that time?
Why did they do that in your opinion? Where, exactly, does that fit into your "sold a convenience store" analogy?
Please try to fit it in there somehow, I'm curious to see how that fits.
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I'm curious. How can you say it "ain't happening" when stuff like this has already happened?
Yes, that's not final...yes, DC can appeal. I'm not saying that's the end of this.
But a case like that for Coke would NEVER get that far. Isn't that proof that, no, this is NOT anything like Coca-Cola?
That's why I'm confused by all these "Coke" and "convenience store" analogies. Aren't all the legal cases already enough to prove how little these analogies mean? This is something totally different. It's not "like" any of that stuff at all.
RobertScorpio
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The Golden Age Superman has more in common with the "Standard" Superman than the E2 version. For most of the Golden Age, Superman fought a bald Luthor and worked at the Daily Planet. Most of his powers were developed in the Golden Age as well. Superboy and the change from L to El happend then as well. THe E-2 version is based on a year or two of material from the earliest comics.
