Posted in: Comics, Recent Updates | Tagged:

The Legal Superman Iceberg Inches Closer

Published
by
|
Last updated
|
Comments

The Legal Superman Iceberg Inches CloserDC Entertainment may reorganise the deckchairs as much as it likes, but there's an iceberg coming. And now they are sending out laser-mounted sharks.

The Hollywood Reporter has, well, reported that Warners has filed five brand new legals oppositions to keep their counter-claim against Siegel/Shuster estate-representing lawyer Marc Toberoff alive.

Toberoff is representating the families of the Superman creators regarding the termination of the copyright of Superman next year in Joe Shuster's family's case and in 2012 for Jerry Siegel's family.

Warners accuses Toberoff of, basically, sticking his oar in where it doesn't belong, getting in the way of previously arranged deals with the families and promising them much that he couldn't deliver – and that he actually wants control of the Superman property himself. Something, naturally, that Toberoff refutes, and has filed his own counter-counter-claim.

Toberoff says he's just a lawyer doing his job. Warners says he wants Superman.

The next hearing date in the case is in less than a month, October 18th. But THR reports that the added paperwork may lead to a delay…

Enjoyed this? Please share on social media!

Stay up-to-date and support the site by following Bleeding Cool on Google News today!

Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
twitterfacebookinstagramwebsite
Comments will load 20 seconds after page. Click here to load them now.