According to foreign media, Disney’s Marvel department filed a lawsuit, demanding to preserve the copyrights of the Avengers characters including Iron Man, Spiderman, Doctor Strange, Ant-Man, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Falcon, etc. The lawsuit is directed against descendants of late comic books such as Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Gene Colan, etc., and requires declaratory relief to indicate that these characters do not comply with the copyright regulations of employment works.
If Marvel loses, after the copyright of these characters expires, the posterity of the creator may be able to get back the copyright that belongs to the creator.
Last month, the Heritage Committee of Steve Ditko, one of Spider-Man’s creators, issued a reminder that Spider-Man’s copyright expires, stating that Marvel will lose Ditko’s copyright to the character in June 2023.
According to the relevant content of the copyright law, the posterity of the author can get back the role copyright previously granted to the publisher after the statutory waiting time expires.
Ditko’s attorney is Marc Toberoff. Before this, Toberoff represented a well-known lawsuit: the superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster filed a lawsuit against DC in hopes of retrieving the copyright, but it was unsuccessful.
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