Go, Read: Charles Hatfield On Most Recent Kirby/Marvel Decision

Here. Charles Hatfield is a comics scholar whose best known work, Hand Of Fire, is about Jack Kirby and his creative contributions. I think Hatfield is onto something in that whatever laws favor Marvel it's still just sort of wrong to categorize that work as work for hire. It's one of those things that can be done but shouldn't be done. A better way should have been found, and was always possible. I don't really think that justice is done when the court decisions go the way I'd prefer them to go, either. The whole thing seems sad. It seems doubly sad to me now that Disney is involved in that I think Disney -- despite some dire, well-documented business practices -- has done an okay job with throwing the spotlight on some of the key talents over the years and could do a job with the Kirby legacy that would enhance their business rather than take away from it. In other words, I think it's even in their interest that a better way be found.
 
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