If I understand this correctly, this lawsuit is specifically dealing with ownership of characters whose creators are dead. It’s not about returning rights to the creators (who largely did this creative work on a for hire basis) but returning rights to their creator’s estates and families.
Why is the estate or descendants of a creator any more entitled to owning the rights of a property than a company that has spent several decades and potentially millions of dollars developing and marketing that same property?
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If I understand this correctly, this lawsuit is specifically dealing with ownership of characters whose creators are dead. It’s not about returning rights to the creators (who largely did this creative work on a for hire basis) but returning rights to their creator’s estates and families.
Why is the estate or descendants of a creator any more entitled to owning the rights of a property than a company that has spent several decades and potentially millions of dollars developing and marketing that same property?
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