Considering whether to travel back in time 50 years to resolve a trademark question not considered by a jury when it found San Diego Comic-Con’s mark is enforceable, a Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday questioned whether the term “Comic Con” was generic when first used by the decades-old comic convention.
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The first comic book produced by Marvel, the famed U.S. publisher behind Spider-Man, X-Men and The Avengers, went under the hammer Thursday, fetching a record $1.26 million, Heritage Auctions said.
Read moreRandy Lawrence claims Philipp and Thomas E. Weisbauer stole more than $2 million worth of comic books from his storage locker in Florida, including rare early Batmans, in Palm Beach County Court.
Read moreTiffany & Co. have removed a tweet showing a woman covering one eye after Chinese consumers accused the jeweler of supporting the Hong Kong protesters.
Read moreThe late Stan Lee’s longtime business manager Bradley J. Herman claims that Lee’s daughter Joan Celia Lee, her attorney Kirk Schenck and The Daily Beast defamed him by claiming he took advantage of the comic legend in his final days, in L.A. Superior Court.
Read moreThe daughter of comic book legend Stan Lee filed a federal lawsuit in Los Angeles Thursday against the company responsible for marketing his image and intellectual properties, claiming that the founders of the company misappropriated his image and misled Lee into believing he had retained the rights to his name and likeness.
Read moreA man screaming “You die!” burst into an animation production studio in Kyoto, Japan, and set it on fire early Thursday, authorities said, killing 13 people and leaving more than 10 others presumed dead.
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European Union authorities have fined the Japanese company behind Hello Kitty for restricting cross-border sales of toys, mugs, bags and other products featuring the cartoon cat girl.
Read moreRight-wing conspiracy website Infowars agreed to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit Monday by turning over profits it made from selling an alt-right poster featuring artist Matt Furie’s cartoon “Pepe the Frog” design.
Read moreThe man accused of stealing from and abusing the late comic book legend Stan Lee pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday.
Read moreA man who claimed to be the late comic book legend Stan Lee’s business partner has been charged with multiple counts of elder abuse in a Los Angeles criminal court, nearly a year after Lee filed a restraining order against the man.
Read moreA federal judge indicated Monday that a jury should decide whether the right-wing conspiracy website Infowars’ use of the Pepe the Frog cartoon on a 2017 alt-right poster infringed the artist’s copyright or amounted to political free speech.
Read moreA California appeals court affirmed dismissal of cartoonist Ted Rall’s defamation complaint against the corporate parent of the LA Times.
Read moreA nonprofit anti-bullying campaign must stop using the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in its stage shows, a federal judge recently ruled.
Read moreMarvel Comics publisher Stan Lee, who created or co-created Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, the X-Men, the Avengers and a raft of other superheroes has died at 95.
Read moreA Dutch judge is extending by two weeks the detention of a 26-year-old man who allegedly threatened to attack the organizer of a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest.
Read moreA jury awarded the owners and operators of San Diego Comic-Con nearly $4 million in attorney’s fees and blocked others from using the name “Comic Con” in a trademark dispute that could have a huge impact on the comic convention industry.
Read moreDisney and other major film studios cannot dodge lawsuits claiming they used stolen technology to create lifelike animated characters in top-grossing films like “Beauty and the Beast,” a federal judge ruled Monday.
Read moreMarvel Comics’ Stan Lee filed a restraining order against a man who up until earlier this week was acting as his business manager, according to court documents filed Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
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