They’re not a police officer, FBI agent, or government spy. This critique of the social order is why the prototypical hardboiled (anti)hero exists outside of the official law enforcement structure. Or Chinatown, in which a business tycoon controls government institutions to choke off water supplies. (Of course this isn’t true of every single noir work, but it is of the ones that influenced SF subgenres like cyberpunk.) Take Dashiell Hammett’s masterpiece Red Harvest, in which a rich man and a corrupt police force collaborate with gangs to crush poor workers. It is the rich and the powerful, and the institutions that serve them, that are the true villains. While other crime genres are often fundamentally a defense of the status quo-police procedurals focus on petty criminals and heroic cops, spy thrillers defeat threats to the established global order-noir presents the established order as crime. They question the state of the world, refusing to just accept the corruption, inequality, and destruction as “the way things are.” Or at least saying, sure, it’s the way things are, but it’s still screwed up. … I think the answer lies first in the fact that both genres have an inherent critique of the social order. Lincoln Michel on why noir blends well with sf, at CrimeReads: “Why Noir and Science Fiction Are Still a Perfect Pairing”. Additionally, the termination provisions of copyright law only apply in the United States, allowing Disney to continue to control and profit from foreign exploitation. The studio would have to share profits with the others. If the plaintiffs win, Disney expects to at least hold on to at least a share of character rights as co-owners. According to the termination notice, Marvel would have to give up Ditko’s rights to its iconic character in June 2023…. Under the termination provisions of copyright law, authors or their heirs can reclaim rights once granted to publishers after waiting a statutory set period of time. In August, the administrator of Ditko’s estate filed a notice of termination on Spider-Man, which first appeared in comic book form in 1962. If Marvel loses, Disney would have to share ownership of characters worth billions. The suits seek declaratory relief that these blockbuster characters are ineligible for copyright termination as works made for hire. The complaints, which The Hollywood Reporter has obtained, come against the heirs of some late comic book geniuses including Stan Lee, Steve Ditko and Gene Colan. Strange, Ant-Man, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Falcon, Thor and others. The Hollywood Reporter looks over the filings in “Marvel Suing to Keep Rights to ‘Avengers’ Characters”.ĭisney’s Marvel unit is suing to hold on to full control of Avengers characters including Iron Man, Spider-Man, Dr. The heirs of Steve Ditko filed to reclaim their rights to some well-known Marvel characters – now Marvel is suing to prevent them.
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