Latest Siegel Family Decision: Superboy; 2001 Deal Details

Kevin Melrose has the best current write-up of the latest legal decision regarding a move by the families of the creator of Superman to re-assert ownership right to that material. Melrose puts the entire thing in admirably plain language: basically this ropes in Superboy and some other related material into a string of decisions about deals and offers that has been previously judged to stand-up, saying that this material was intended to be used in that process.

The decision also releases details of the deal in question, which could be worth tens of millions of dollars barring a kind of accounting that the family has stressed through the legal process they feared would take place. Hopefully, it won't. I personally would like to see the families get as much money and as much satisfaction as is possible here for the industry- and culture-changing nature of that original creation. I wish it had come more freely than through a tortuous legal process but now that we're at this end point I would like to see as many positive as possible.
 
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