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Warner Bros. Moves to Throw Out ‘Superman’ Suit Over Foreign Copyrights
Warner Bros. and DC Comics filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the copyrights to 'Superman' in the U.K. and other countries.
Mark Peary, the nephew of the late Superman co-creator Joe Shuster, filed the suit in January, seeking to invalidate the studio’s copyrights under the laws of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Ireland. In a motion to dismiss filed Wednesday, Warner Bros. noted that courts have repeatedly rejected Peary’s claims, finding that his mother, Jean Peavy, signed away all rights to the Superman character after Shuster’s death in 1992. The suit seeks to assert the “Dickens provision” of U.K. copyright law, which it argues also applies in Canada, Australia, Ireland, Israel, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand and South Africa.
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