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Notoriously litigious Stan Lee Media Inc couldn't have thought that Disney would respond to its latest Marvel character rights grab in a placid manner, so the company shouldn't be surprised by the legal hit to the jugular that the House Mickey Built just gave it in federal court over Spider-Man. But that doesn’t mean…

Despite Disney's best legal efforts, perpetually litigious Stan Lee Media Inc is not going quietly into the Pennsylvania night with its claims to Spider-Man. Today SLMI fired back at the media giant's attempts to shut it down once and for all last month with assertions of time-barred claims and the fact that it is a…

The mantra over at Stan Lee Media Inc must be "if first you don't succeed, try, try again." Certainly that is its legal strategy. Almost three months after a federal judge in Colorado granted Disney's request for dismissal of SLMI's multibillion-dollar Marvel superhero copyright suit, the company is back in…

EXCLUSIVE: Looks like Conan The Barbarian finally has one less foe to face. Two years and two months after the litigious Stan Lee Media sued Conan rights owners Paradox Entertainment for the rights back to the character, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today pretty much slew their case. And by the way, just so…

Turns out the Walt Disney Company really does own the rights to the Marvel characters created by Stan Lee, at least according to a federal judge today. U.S. District Judge William J. Martinez Thursday granted with prejudice Disney's motion to dismiss Stan Lee Media's multibillion-dollar lawsuit superhero copyright…

The Walt Disney Company has called Stan Lee Media's multibillion-dollar lawsuit "flawed beyond cure." In a motion to dismiss (read it here) filed last week, the company mocks SLMI's legal claims that it actually owns rights to all the Marvel characters created by Stan Lee. "There is no conceivable basis on which…

Stan Lee Media, Inc. wants the profits from the $5.5 billion it says the Walt Disney Company has made from superhero movies and merchandise based on characters created by Stan Lee. Those characters include Iron Man, Spider-Man, most of The Avengers, The X-Men and more. "Defendant The Walt Disney Company has…