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22 Mar 2011, 8:05 am
Calling all comic book fans and those looking for a fun study break -- Two attorneys, James Daily and Ryan Davidson, who are both recent law school graduates, maintain a great blog called Law and the Multiverse where they explore the legal implications of various comic book scenarios and the behavior of comic book heroes and villains. [read post]
26 Oct 2022, 6:38 am
All comics that carried this seal were approved by the Comic Code Authority. [read post]
22 Jun 2015, 1:25 pm
The author is Professor of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law. [read post]
21 Aug 2006, 5:00 am
The comic book charts the impact that the author's brother's epilepsy has had on his life and his families. [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 2:30 pm
In response to an increasing outcry for censorship of comic books, the industry created the Comics Code Authority to ensure conformance with self-adopted standards. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 5:24 am
As if living and working in New York and being an expert in music licensing law wasn't cool enough, lawyer Bob Kohn has now transcended to the status of super cool, in this Kat's opinion, by filing a friend-of-the-court five page brief in comic book format, opposing a settlement in e-book price-fixing case U.S. v. [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 12:22 pm
A family-owned company that owns the copyright and trademark rights to author Edgar Rice Burroughs’s works has sued comic-book distributor Dynamic Forces and publisher Dynamite Entertainment over books based on Burroughs’s most-famous characters Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 3:08 am
This looks like fun - a new comic book from Duke University that looks to translate some copyrights and copywrongs into an interesting, visual story that explains copyright - and some of the current problems with copyright. [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 3:40 am
Central District of California – Comic book author Jack Kirby’s heirs are suing Marvel and Disney (complaint available here) to terminate the copyrights in the popular Spider Man, Iron Man, X-Men, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, The Avengers, Thor, Nick Fury and Ant-Man comics, which Kirby authored or co-authored between 1958 and 1963. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 4:11 pm
By Chris Ferrell Comic book characters are more famous now (and more valuable) than they have ever been. [read post]
21 Jul 2014, 11:40 am
Hot Topics 2014 Lawyers attending Comic-Con can pick up continuing legal education credits by attending the panels in the Comic Book Law School series, which are led by Michael Lovitz, author of The Trademark and Copyright Book comic book. [read post]
7 Dec 2013, 7:45 am
(For a look at the actual comics of the period, go to Comic Book Plus, which has a section on crime comics.) [read post]
22 Jan 2013, 4:55 am
First, there’s So why comic books? [read post]
15 Dec 2017, 1:12 pm
Author: David Baker Earlier this month, a jury in San Diego federal court was asked to decide if the use of the trademark “COMIC CON” by Daniel Farr, Bryan Brandenburg, and Dan Farr Productions for a comic book convention held in Salt Lake City constituted an infringement of the trademark “COMIC-CON” (note the distinguishing hyphen) owned by San Diego Comic Convention. [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 6:48 am
As reported by the Law Blog of The Wall Street Journal (http://blogs.wsj.com/law/), the suit initiated by ERB, Inc., a company created by the author in 1923, 27 years before his death, that is owned principally by his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, alleges the defendants' Lord of the Jungle and Warlord of Mars comic book series infringe on Burroughs' Tarzan the Ape Man and John Carter of Mars. [read post]
18 Mar 2018, 10:22 am
In 2016, the ever-growing collection started gathering one of the most recent forms of scientific literature: graphic medicine, which encompasses materials (mostly books) that use comics as a means of educating people about illness and health. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 12:21 pm
But then, as you turn to page three ... a comic strip about antitrust law begins. [read post]
26 Oct 2012, 5:00 am
Consider the recent example of California entertainment lawyer (and author of Kohn on Music Licensing) Bob Kohn, who in August sought to submit a 55-page amicus curiae brief in the Department of Justice's e-book price-fixing lawsuit. [read post]
27 Jun 2009, 8:13 pm
The TSA agents then proceeded to interrogate me, having a hard time understanding that a comic book could be about anything other than superheroes, let alone that anyone actually wrote scripts for comics. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 11:11 pm
Comic strip. [read post]
