Marvel sued comic book artist Larry Lieber and the estates of artists Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Gene Colan, and Don Rico on Friday, seeking court orders that the artists can't terminate its copyright interests in characters they co-created including Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Thor.
The artists' creations were works made "for hire" for Marvel, Marvel owns them in perpetuity, and the artists can't reclaim rights in them under the Copyright Act, Marvel argued in theThe artists all wrote and illustrated Marvel comics in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Lieber and the estates of Ditko, Heck, Colan and Rico filed severalthis summer claiming to terminate their grants of copyrights to Marvel and its parent company Disney in comics they wrote.
Marvel attorney Dan Petrocelli of O'Melveny and Myers said in a statement that "since these were works made for hire and thus owned by Marvel, we filed these lawsuits to confirm that the termination notices are invalid and of no legal effect." The Copyright Act's termination provision doesn't apply to works made for hire, however, and Marvel argued this prevents the artists from recovering the copyrights.
The stories listed in Lieber's notices feature Iron Man, Thor, Ant-Man and The Wizard. Lieber is the younger brother of late Marvel legend Stan Lee.
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