On November 21, 2013, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that Warner Brothers is the sole owner of Superman’s copyright. The ruling should be the final legal battle in the lengthy ownership dispute with the estates of Superman’s co-creators. The court described the case as “another chapter in the long-running saga regarding the ownership of copyrights in Superman – a story almost as old as the Man of Steel himself.”
Superman made his debut in 1938 as a character in Action Comics #1. The …
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