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- Title
The Fantastic Failure: How Current Copyright Law Stacks the Deck Against the Original Authors of Justice.
- Authors
Cox, Wayne M.
- Abstract
The article discusses the rise of the comic book industry as a global force, the development of the work for hire doctrine with respect to comic book artists and authors. Topics discussed include the U.S. copyright law concerning the rights of independent contractors in the work for hire context, U.S. Supreme Court cases such as Marvel Characters, Inc. v. Kirby related to authorship rights and the case Fred Fisher Music Co. v. M. Witmark & Sons related to renewable copyright.
- Subjects
UNITED States; COMICS publishing; COPYRIGHT; COMIC book artists; WORKS for hire (Copyright); CORPORATE authorship; MARVEL Characters Inc.; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law)
- Publication
IDEA: The Intellectual Property Law Review, 2015, Vol 55, Issue 3, p361
- ISSN
0019-1272
- Publication type
Article