Just wondering if you think of anyccharacters from either DC or Marvel that yu think are just cops of the others character. I personnaly think that DC should take some action over Captain Mavrel. I mean come on. The only reason that Ccaptain Marr-vell has a hypyhen throughit is just so that thee can use the name Captain Marvel but get away with it. That's kinda like this story I heard wrere this college that The NCAA was aking to change its name got to keep its name by changing it from Redmen to Red Men.
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I don't et how they lost seeing as they had it first and I think that Captain Marvel came around before the the Marvel Comics even started.
__________________ From the b***s of Hancock's junior's to the shores of misery, we will curse our country's leaders cross the stars on land and sea, first to fight the distant corporate wars, spill our blood for a sheaf of green, we will do or die, we ask not why cuz we're colonial marines!
Captain Marvel was created by Fawcett; DC sued him, saying that Captain Marvel was so similar to Superman that it consitituted copywrite infringement. They won, and Fawcett stopped using Captain Marvel. For a while, that was it.
Then Marvel came along and created their own Captain Marvel. He ended up dying of cancer, and I think he's still dead; he's not important, except that Marvel now owned the rights to using "Captain Marvel" as a book title. So when DC bought the rights to Fawcett's Captain Marvel from Fawcett, they couldn't title their book that; they used SHAZAM instead.
__________________ "Men curse the Communist Party, but eventually it may release them. If hell were endless, then God would be worse than our Secret Police."--Pastor Valentin
That explains it pretty well. DC has the copyright to what was once the Fawcett Captain Marvel, but they went too long without using the name and logo that the TRADEMARK was up for grabs. So Marvel created Captain Mar-Vell, published his book as Captain Marvel and now they own the trademark for X amount of years. Every certain number of years trademarks elapse--they have to be kept in use or else they go back up for grabs. Anyways, the link explains it.
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