Marvel Sues to Keep Rights to Billion-Dollar Avengers Characters - NewsBreak

Today, Marvel filed a lawsuit to keep its ownership of some of its most popular, and lucrative, Avengers. Inside the Magic reported earlier that the estate of the late Steve Ditko — run by his son Patrick Ditko — filed two notices of copyright termination last month to end Marvel's ownership of both Doctor Strange and Spider-Man. Steve Ditko was a co-creator of both characters, along with Marvel legend Stan Lee. Ditko's estate says that the termination of copyright will happen in June 2023.