A court has awarded the heirs of Jerry Siegel, the co-creator of Superman, rights to additional works after evidence showed that the publications were produced before DC Comics purchased the publication rights of the action hero. Previously, the heirs co-owned rights to Action Comics #1. According to the court’s ruling, they also co-own rights to Action Comic #4, two weeks of daily cartoon strips, and 3 pages from another publication.
See Graeme McMillan, DC Loses More Superman Rights, io9, Aug. 14, 2009.
For information regarding the sale of rights to the action hero for $130 and other legal disputes surrounding this estate, see my prior posting.
Special thanks to Joel Dobris (Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law) for bringing this article to my attention.
