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I'm not sure I understand the argument that "work made for hire" only applies to full-time employees. It's true that work done as a full-time employee is covered in the act, but the next section outlines the other circumstances including "Work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work" which I think pretty accurately describes comic book creation. Also, I don't know the Marvel contracts inside and out, but there's a potential that "the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire." So could you elaborate on that?

Do you find "Work" (as in the promoting of albums, administrative stuff, and other non-songwriting activities) as a roadblock in your creative process, or do you enjoy that part as well?

Thanks for this AMA.

Right now you are in a particularly precarious moral situation. The news coming from the Ukranian government is often unreliable or purposefully misleading, but unlike Russia, Ukraine's government doesn't seem to have an iron grip on its media. So when clear propaganda comes across your desk, what do you do? Are you more motivated to help your country and join in the propaganda wars against Russia, or does pursuit of truth override?

Okay, that makes more sense. The argument seems to be that they were misclassified workers, and with unclear legal wording pre-1976 it would have been difficult for Marvel to have had the wording to lock down a work for hire contract.

Still, I think Disney might have a case in that this was clearly work made for a larger project. Sure, you may have created a character in the Marvel Universe, but their popularity is owed at least in part to their shared story with some other major headliners, and that's been true since at least the Stan Lee days.

Either way, I bet this winds up being settled out of court.

What was the moment in the lab where you most feared your own godlike powers?

Also, huge fan of the comic from the early days! Thanks for making great entertainment every day of the week for so long!