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Unfortunately, Lash broke Josh's heart and Josh swore revenge on Legion fandom!
His first act was to ACTUALLY LET DC KEEP MAKING LEGION COMICS IN THE DCnU!
That bastard! He knew under Didio's tenure all DC comics would suck!
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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And a serious question... what responsibility did DC *EVER* have to Shuster's sister and brother, who have absolutely nothing to do with the creation of Superman? I simply can't wrap my mind around the fact that these two people who had nothing to do with SUPERMAN get annual pensions from DC...????
I mean, Shuster's wife or kids would be one thing... that I can understand, but his brothers and sisters?
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Heirs are heirs, I assume it's as simple as that. If a man was entitled to something, it goes to his estate when he's gone, and estates go to heirs. It's not a question of whether the heirs contributed somehow.
Wife and kids probably had nothing to do with Superman either if that were a legal point.
(Alright, I think she might have been the original model for Lois...)
From: Manhattan, NY | Registered: May 2011
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So, DC keeps paying this pension to, say, the great-grandchildren of Shuster's brother and sister too 60 years from now? I really, truly do not understand this.
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This thread is getting alarmingly close to the topic of my marrying Lady Cobalt because her great-great grandfather Harold P. Funyun, created funyuns and she's the heir to the massive Funyun estate!*
Every year I burn massive amounts of free funyuns I get in the same bonfire Josh Siegel burns thousands of old Legion comics.
(* which coincidently includes a 15% ownership share of Disney!)
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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quote:Originally posted by lowercase mllash: So, DC keeps paying this pension to, say, the great-grandchildren of Shuster's brother and sister too 60 years from now? I really, truly do not understand this.
The agreement they are hinging the ruling on says that they pay Shuster's sister 25K a year until she dies. Once she's gone DC will supposedly own the Shuster half of the rights in perpetuity (or until Congress grows a backbone and lets them go into Public Domain).
From: Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada | Registered: Sep 2004
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Not actually reading anything about this, but just tossing out possibilities to ease Lash's mind:
If anyone's fighting over something right now, fair chance it's what the wording of some previous settlement or other agreement means, not what the general rule of law is. It's not as if every creator automatically gets his or her siblings and grandchildren a pension.
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Hmm... it would be interesting to know, for example, how much the Burroughs heirs make annually off the fact that they still control the rights to Tarzan and other ERB creations.
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quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: Hmm... it would be interesting to know, for example, how much the Burroughs heirs make annually off the fact that they still control the rights to Tarzan and other ERB creations.
ERB's estate is an interesting case as a lot of Burrough's characters and stories ARE in Public Domain in most jurisdictions, and it's just Trademark, not Copyright they can legitimately claim. Of course that doesn't stop them from saying they have the rights. It will be interesting to see if the spat with Dynamite goes all the way, as it may set precedent if a judge is forced to rule on the question of trademarking something you don't own copyright to. That is, how much of a Public Domain property can qualify as a "mark".
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