It sure would be nice if I could go back to my former employer and say: "You know those 25 years that I agreed to work for you for 'X' dollars? Well upon further reflection, I've decided that my efforts on your behalf were actually worth 'X+Y' dollars.


Out of curiousity, could you legitimately say that any work you did for your former employer continued to produce measurable, tangeable benefits some 50 years on?

I don't think many people can make that claim, and that's what all of this is about, really -- IP owners have won the exclusive right to profit from their property for a bit longer, but as a compromise, the door was opened (under certain circumstances) to allow people who made a significant contribution (or in this case, their heirs) to those works the right to share in it.


I repeat, it's an unjustified lawsuit to gain a settlement by embarrassiing the "evil" Disney monster.


Unless I'm mistaken, I think Marvel was already given notice (prior to any formal legal action) that the Kirby family intended to take this step, which they have every legal right to do under the law. What were they supposed to do when the company contested? Quietly withdraw?

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