Marvel sues to keep Spider-Man, X-Men Copyrights

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Originally Posted by koontz1973

True, they are bound to sell, but I think that they (the family) are over estimating how much they are worth. Studios are not going to pay over the odds.

In addition DC still holds the rights to a lot of the key elements of the Superman mythology, like Superman being able to fly, the characters Lex Luther and Jimmy Olson, and other Superman powers, meaning if a company wanted to make a Superman movie they'd likely have to get rights from both the Siegels and DC.

The way the Spiderman and X-Men case is different than Superman's is that Superman was created independently and sold to DC, while Marvel claims that the Spiderman/X-Men creator was hired to produce new characters and therefore doesn't have a claim.