Comics Arts Conference #16: Identity Crisis: Trademark and the Ripple Effect in Comic Narratives. (42:06, 96.3mb)
The panel of lawyers were: Jim Thompson, Marc Greenberger and Daniel Barer. They started off talking about superheroes dealing with people using their names in comic books and dealing with it in legal and non-legal methods, they spoke about an attempt from another publisher to do a SuperWoman comic strip and how DC was able to stop that with a previously published Superwoman ashcan comic, Marc spoke specifically about what trademarks are and how they work and also went over the legal history of Superman vs. Captain Marvel, Daniel went over the Captain Marvel trademark between Fawcett, Myron Fass and Marvel, Jim spoke about the names Wonder Man and Power Man and the DC/Marvel dispute over them.
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