It's over!!! Warner/DC Comics retains all rights to Superman/Superboy going forward

[Clark Kent]

DC now fully owns Superboy (the real version, not a clone or the other pretenders running around today) once again. It has been no secret that DC partially abandoned Superboy over the past two decades because it was an open question whether or not they would retain rights to him in court. His rights were a separate situation from the rights to Superman.

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/supe...tes-april.html

Judge Otis Wright III of U.S. District Court says that the Superman rights case, where the heirs of Jerry Siegel sought further rights and royalties from Warner Brothers and DC Comics, is over.

In court April 18, 2013, Wright ruled that “The Court holds that the 2001 settlement agreement between DC and the Siegels re-granted the Siegels’ Superman, Superboy, and a Superman advertisements that ran in the 1930s to DC in return for substantial advances and royalties,” and that the motion of DC/WB to end these litigations is granted.

This confirms the January Court of Appeals ruling that essentially gives DC and Warner Bros full ownership of Superman and related properties including the younger - and much contested - version, Superboy.

[DisneyWorld]

This is great news for us DC fans.

[Clark Kent]

It's a shame this didn't occur a couple of years sooner, I suspect the shape of the new DC 52 universe would look different in the reboot.

[DEADP00L]

Too bad I would have loved to have seen Superman under Marvel