Go, Read: Kevin Melrose Catches Up With Stan Lee Media

The superior link-blogger Kevin Melrose walks us through the latest in Quixotic (and/or a word that rhymes with "Quixotic") efforts by the legal ghosts of Internet Economy Phase One company Stan Lee Media to lay claim to some partial ownership of the Marvel characters co-created by the writer, no longer affiliated in any way with the outfit.

The logic behind this is legendary: basically that Lee blanket-signed over rights to SLM when the company started, and that this includes the Marvel characters due to the construction of a later settlement between Marvel and Lee which SLM argues acknowledged Lee's rights in those characters in order to have something for which to pay him. It is the all-time logic-of-the-dorm-hallway-at-3-AM argument in entertainment history.

At this point, Stan Lee Media exists slowly as a way for its current owners to kind of get access at those Marvel characters, or at least a settlement for them if they ever find a legal pathway that's kinder than the one they've been on, which has basically involved judges dropping rocks on their heads.
 
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