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Daniel Best of Oh Danny Boy presents the legal document that will give Marc Toberoff and the Siegel and Shuster estates an un-merry Christmas But give DC Entertainment lawyers some festive cheer That the judge has ruled "…the copyright termination notice served by the Estate of Joseph Shuster on November 10, 2003, is deemed invalid and[...]

Court of Appeals yesterday heard arguments from Jerry Siegel's daughter, Laura Siegel Larson, over whether she can terminate agreements with DC Comics that have stood from 1938 The argument against is that DC states that Larson and her late mother made a new agreement with DC in 2006 which they are unable to contradict They[...]

It's all going a bit meta. The other week, Joe Michael Straczynski spoke to Aint It Cool News and said, talking about Before Watchmen. But how is it any more wrong than the way any comics creators were treated, especially those who came out of the Golden and Silver Age? Worse than Jack Kirby, who couldn't even[...]

As Lois Lane is case in the next Superman movie, Nikki Finke has posted the final letter of Joanne Siegel, widow of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, to Jeffrey L Bewkes, Chairman and CEO of Time Warner, which was in preparation before she died last month of heart failure, aged 93. Joanne was well known in[...]