Stan Lee Media Lawsuit Rises From Grave



THR, Esq. has the details of a new Stan Lee Media lawsuit over Stan Lee's 1998 assignation of characters to that company and what that means in terms of rights later granted Lee as part of a complicated settlement with him, in part over the Marvel characters he co-created. The explain it to your Mom version is that SLM claims that Lee and Marvel settled a legal case for rights that SLM says Lee has previously assigned to the Dot-Com Era company that bore his name. Beyond that basic description of things lies the mad, gibberish-like howls of a thousand legal filings, angry e-mails sent to reporters in support of same and a timeline that makes that Kang/Rama Tut/Dr. Doom/Immortus stuff look like amateur hour. The article makes a point of this lawsuit not having the problem the previous, just-dismissed one did along the way in that these are folks with an acknowledged, legitimate, stamped-by-another-court stake in SLM, but to my completely not-trained eye I don't think those rights were a factor in the final dismissal. On the other hand, a switch in jurisdiction to California and just having the legal matter still around constitute a definite risk to those involved; there's no such thing as a sure thing in matter like this one.
 
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