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Superman Creator’s Estate Sues DC and Warner Bros. Over Foreign Copyrights Ahead of James Gunn Reboot
The estate of Joe Shuster sued DC Comics, seeking to invalidate the company's Superman copyrights in the U.K., Canada, Australia and Ireland.
The estate of co-creator Joe Shuster sued DC Comics and Warner Bros. on Friday, seeking to invalidate the companies’ copyrights in several foreign markets. Discovery will release “Superman” this summer, relaunching the valuable franchise and starting a planned cinematic universe of DC characters. The suit states that under the copyright laws in the U.K. and the other countries at issue, the rights to Superman automatically reverted to the estates 25 years after the creators’ deaths.
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