Marvel to Appeal Profit-Sharing Lawsuit
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Comic-book publisher Marvel Enterprises Inc. on Wednesday said it plans to appeal a court decision giving a share of its film and television profits to former editor Stan Lee, who created Spider-Man and a host of other popular Marvel characters.
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Controversy has surrounded a recent &#8220;white paper&#8221; issued by comic shop retailer organization ComicsPRO. In the open letter, the group expressed their concerns over individual publishers hurting their ability to do business by offering pre-retail convention sales. ComicsPRO has asked publishers NOT to offer any books to fans at conventions or local gatherings before they become [...]
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Hollywood movie studios, through the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), have today sued scores of operators of computer servers that help relay digitised movie files across online file-sharing networks.
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Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom  GAZPq.L on Saturday filed an appeal in U.S. district court  seeking to overturn a bankruptcy judge's temporary restraining  order blocking the auction of Yukos' YUKO.RTS main oil  producing subsidiary, planned for Sunday.
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Comic book giant Marvel has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Korean publisher NCsoft, alleging that players in the firm&#39;s MMORPG City of Heroes are creating characters in the likeness of Marvel heroes.
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Marvel says the massively multiplayer City of Heroes lets players create characters that resemble its own, so the company is suing. That's not sitting well with free-speech advocates. By Daniel Terdiman.
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Walt Disney Co. and News Corp. are to challenge in court the conditional award of Indian cricket TV rights to local media firm Zee Telefilms Ltd., their ESPN Star Sports joint venture said on Tuesday.
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Mining company, Harmony, is to appeal against today&#39;s Competition Appeal Court ruling interdicting it from exercising voting rights it got from buying shares in its competitor Gold Fields.
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Marvel Enterprises has filed suit against NCsoft and Cryptic Studios, claiming that the companies violated Marvel&#39;s trademark characters in the MMORPG City of Heroes.
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15:19 &quot;The complaint is meritless.&quot; As retorts go, Cryptic Studios&#39; response to comic book giant Marvel Enterprises hits with the power of an Incredible Hulk ( er, better insert a TM here - Ed) punch.
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A Delaware court next Monday will begin considering the shareholder lawsuit over the $140 million severance that Walt Disney paid its former president Michael S. Ovitz.
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The Supreme Court said it would rule on an appeal by movie and record companies, headed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, that say they should be able to sue the file-sharing services, Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc. -The Washington Post
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The Motion Picture Association of America says it has sued a company that sells Internet downloads of current movies like &quot;I, Robot&quot; and &quot;Spider-Man 2&quot; without permission.
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The Supreme Court today agreed to hear an appeal by Exxon Mobil Corp. that seeks to overturn $2.5 billion in punitive damages a federal court ordered the company to pay for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska.
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November 15, 2004 - Cryptic Studios responded on its company website to threats that Marvel Comics would be suing them on likeness rights regarding its on-going massively multiplayer super hero themed role playing game - City of Heroes: As reported by The
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November 12, 2004 - Marvel is suing City of Heroes publisher NCsoft and developer Cryptic Studios reports a recent article in USA Today.
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Comic book publisher Marvel Enterprises Inc. on Thursday posted a lower quarterly profit due to the impact of taxes, but revenue rose 60 percent on licensing of such characters as Spider-Man.