{"id":4389,"date":"2012-06-27T18:51:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T18:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2012-06-27T18:51:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T18:51:18","slug":"superman-lawyer-scores-a-minor-win-in-brutal-battle-with-warner-bros-robot-6-comic-book-resources-covering-comic-book-news-and-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/superman-lawyer-scores-a-minor-win-in-brutal-battle-with-warner-bros-robot-6-comic-book-resources-covering-comic-book-news-and-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman lawyer scores a minor win in brutal battle with Warner Bros. | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources \u2013 Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three months after Warner Bros. trumpeted \u201ca significant victory\u201d in its lengthy legal brawl over the rights to Superman, the lawyer representing the estates of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster has claimed a small win of his own.\"\"<\/p>\n

The studio sued Marc Toberoff in March 2010, two years after Siegel\u2019s heirs were awarded a portion of the copyright to the Man of Steel, accusing the attorney of orchestrating a \u201cweb of collusive agreements\u201d with the two families that led them to reject \u201cmutually beneficial\u201d longtime deals with DC Comics and seek to recapture the Superman rights. Warner Bros. based its claims on sensitive documents stolen from Toberoff\u2019s office in 2008 by a disgruntled former associate and delivered anonymously to the studio. Toberoff argued that the papers were covered by attorney-client privilege, but in April the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a May 2011 ruling that Toberoff waived privilege when he turned over the documents in 2010 in response to a grand jury subpoena issued after he met with the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office to discuss an investigation of the theft.<\/p>\n

Toberoff responded to the lawsuit in August 2010 by filing an anti-SLAPP motion seeking to dismiss the studio\u2019s claims, arguing they amount to bullying and interference with his client\u2019s First Amendment right to petition. A district court denied his motion, leading Toberoff to appeal.<\/p>\n

Hollywood, Esq. reports the twist, and the good news for Toberoff, is that the Ninth Circuit has determined that in its answer to the motion Warner Bros. can\u2019t use any of the newly acquired evidence to bolster its argument that Toberoff was functioning not as an attorney but as an entrepreneur \u2014 one who stood to gain \u201ca majority and controlling financial stake\u201d in the Man of Steel \u2014 when he convinced the Siegel and Shuster heirs to seek to recapture the Superman copyrights. The website notes the studio could still try slip the evidence into the record, but it\u2019s something the appellate court typically frowns upon.<\/p>\n

A hearing on the matter is expected later this year. The big showdown, a jury trial requested by Warner Bros. in hopes of reversing the 2008 copyright decision, likely won\u2019t come until 2013, at the earliest.<\/p>\n

via Superman lawyer scores a minor win in brutal battle with Warner Bros. | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources \u2013 Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three months after Warner Bros. trumpeted \u201ca significant victory\u201d in its lengthy legal brawl over the rights to Superman, the lawyer representing the estates of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster has claimed a small win of his own. The studio sued Marc Toberoff in March 2010, two years after Siegel\u2019s heirs were awarded a portion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-18N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6140,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/dc-wins-big-against-estate-of-jerry-siegel-over-ownership-of-superman\/","url_meta":{"origin":4389,"position":0},"title":"DC Wins Big Against Estate Of Jerry Siegel Over Ownership Of Superman","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"January 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cI can\u2019t stand to look at a Superman comic book. 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