There already have been a few other copyright termination cases of note one dealing with the termination of the A.A. Given the timelines established in the Copyright Act for termination of past transfers, there should be a lot more of these copyright termination proceedings in the months and years to come. It has been thirty years since the Copyright Act took effect on Jan. This section permits a copyright owner, or the statutory heirs, to terminate a long-ago transfer of the copyright and reacquire all rights. Siegel’s heirs sought to terminate the transfer of Superman rights by employing a little known section of the Copyright Act. Times reported in a 1975 article that Siegel and Shuster were nearly destitute at that time. The original creators received nothing more for Superman. The Superman rights eventually ended up with Warner Bros. Who owns Superman? Back in the 1930s, the original artists who created Superman, Jerry Siegel and Joseph Shuster, sold their rights to Detective Comics for $130.
Last week, a federal judge in Los Angeles, using a pen containing a bit of kryptonite, terminated the ownership rights in Superman held by Warner Bros.
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