ReviveTheRedRaven wrote:
"First, the corporation the Kirby's are suing had nothing to do with Marvel Comics in the sixties."

... a part from the fact they still get money from those 60s products

The current owners are not responsible legally or morally for fantasies that Martin MIGHT have told Jack Kirby way back when.  They're certainly not responsible if Jack, who RAN HIS OWN COMPANY as co-owner in the fifties and had twenty years of experience in the industry was gullible enough to believe Goodman. 

This suit is greed, pure and simple.  And, being an American, if I was in the Kirby family's situation and could get a law firm to represent me in this on a contingency basis, I'd sue too.  I'd be wrong morally, but what the heck, money is money and embarrassing an "evil" corporation into settling has worked many times before.


This is not a suit about what Martin Goodman told Jack Kirby.  This is a suit about copyrights and employment status.  And, yes, the present copyright owners stand in the shoes of those who came before on these issues.

Not sure why it is "morally wrong" to take advantage of rights that Congress specifically enacted for creators to avail themselves of.  The irony here is that these rights were largely created back in the 1970s because of Disney.