Entertainment & Sports
Nov. 10, 2017
Superhero rights may hinge on 21-year-old letter
A young man’s apology letter to a family friend became a central issue in the copyright battle over the rights to Ultraman, with defense counsel citing it as incontrovertible proof that man’s father, the owner of the franchise, signed away the rights to a business associate in 1976.
LOS ANGELES — A young man’s apology letter to a family friend became a central issue in the copyright battle over the rights to Ultraman, with defense counsel citing it as incontrovertible proof that man’s father, the owner of the franchise, signed away the rights to a business associate in 1976.
Defense counsel Michael Chibib argued on Wednesday that an apology letter written in 1996 by Kazuo Tsuburaya, the former president of plai...
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