Go, Read: Kiel Phegley’s Discussion With Michael Lovitz At Comic Book Resources
The writer Kiel Phegley talks with comics-interested lawyer Michael Lovitz about the recent filings by Toberoff & Associates on behalf of the Kirby family regarding several Marvel copyrights, and clears up some of the broader questions. I found it particularly useful in that 1) Lovitz keeps stressing that this isn't a legal action in the sense that it locks any agency into a pattern at this point -- it could be years before a next step is taken, and 2) the principle of creating something for a company still holds to the point that the Kirby family would have to show some sort of outside creation going on to have a chance to reclaim some of these copyrights. This should bring into question not so much the famous Marvel Method generally but the specific practices and arrangements between various players as they existed at Marvel in the 1960s.
