Superman’s latest adventure put’s DC between a rock and a hard place. So the co-creators of Superman sold the rights to DC a long, long, long, long time ago. But through the magic of legal loopholes, the rights were set to revert to the heirs of the creators, a Jerry Siegel & Joel Schuster. However, in a settlement this past Wednesday, a judge in California decided to strangely split the rights between the heirs and DC. The reason for the split being that the creators basically sold the rights to the origins, but all the character development was written by work-for-hire working under DC. So now DC’s gotta shove out a ton of money to pay back loyalties proper. Schuster’s relatives will unfortunately get nothing however, sine…well…there are none.
[via Variety]
