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Post by cfs on Dec 24, 2007 0:29:01 GMT -5
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Post by G on Jan 6, 2008 12:07:58 GMT -5
Uh...could you summarize these 73 pages in a brief nutshell?   |
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Post by cfs on Jan 6, 2008 13:14:15 GMT -5
Uh...could you summarize these 73 pages in a brief nutshell? Siegel & Schuster had and agreement that they'd submit all "new" ideas to National Periodical Publications (DC) for acceptance or rejection. Siegel submitted a Superboy concept. NPP rejected it in writing. Siegel goes off to war. NPP has Schuster draw a Superboy story. It goes to court and NPP wins on a shoestring. It is deemed by the courts to not be a derivative work. Time elapses, copyright law changes blah blah blah. Basically DC is in danger of losing their rights to Superboy to the Siegel family. If it's not resolved already, I think the courts will reverse previous decisions and call it a derivative work. After all, Superboy is Clark Kent in the comics. It's not like Siegel had rights to a Clark Kent character with super powers. He sold those. Therefore a super powered boy named Clark Kent isn't much of a new idea. The only thing the family has going for them is past court decisions and the rejection letter. The funny thing is that they could take the Superboy concept over to Marvel and Marvel could publish a Superboy comics if DC loses the rights. I doubt they would, but the idea is funny. Obviously the character couldn't have the "S' on the chest or be Clark Kent... but it would still be funny to me. cfs |
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Post by G on Jan 6, 2008 13:59:07 GMT -5
Uh...could you summarize these 73 pages in a brief nutshell? Siegel & Schuster had and agreement that they'd submit all "new" ideas to National Periodical Publications (DC) for acceptance or rejection. Siegel submitted a Superboy concept. NPP rejected it in writing. Siegel goes off to war. NPP has Schuster draw a Superboy story. It goes to court and NPP wins on a shoestring. It is deemed by the courts to not be a derivative work. Time elapses, copyright law changes blah blah blah. Basically DC is in danger of losing their rights to Superboy to the Siegel family. If it's not resolved already, I think the courts will reverse previous decisions and call it a derivative work. After all, Superboy is Clark Kent in the comics. It's not like Siegel had rights to a Clark Kent character with super powers. He sold those. Therefore a super powered boy named Clark Kent isn't much of a new idea. The only thing the family has going for them is past court decisions and the rejection letter. The funny thing is that they could take the Superboy concept over to Marvel and Marvel could publish a Superboy comics if DC loses the rights. I doubt they would, but the idea is funny. Obviously the character couldn't have the "S' on the chest or be Clark Kent... but it would still be funny to me. cfs That would be funny... That would be like Captain America running around DC. |
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