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February 12, 2016: Appeals Court Confirms Superman Rights Stay With WB

Superman Court Case The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has confirmed this week (once again) that the rights to Superman belong with Warner Bros., upholding an earlier decision stating that the family of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel transferred right to the character in 2001.

    On Wednesday, the 9th Circuit said it really doesn't matter, that Congress authorized a "re-grant of copyrights by contract in lieu of statutory termination," that the Siegels "bargained with their statutory termination power in hand to negotiate a highly remunerative new agreement."

    The appeals court also won't let the Siegels try to rescind the 2001 agreement, noting the argument is now just coming up, the widow has died and there would be too much prejudice to DC to go down that road now. Separately, the 9th Circuit won't go into a decision much earlier in this case that the Superman works were made for hire, and thus, not eligible to be terminated in the first place. Warners, represented by Daniel Petrocelli at O'Melveny & Myers, attempted to revisit that one.

Source: HollywoodReporter.com


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