These two things have become variables in Bluestar Technology's acquisition of Marvel Comics.

The copyright notice is that Jack Kirby's family issued 45 notices of termination through the media on the same day, and handed them over to Marvel Entertainment, Bluestar Technology, Disney, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, and other companies that have used these comic book characters.

Bluestar Technology also got a copy because it bought the debt of Marvel Comics from Merrill Lynch.

"What a good thing!"

Zhang Bowen, who lived in the hotel, looked at the content of the "New York Times" and shook his head with a wry smile, the original sin of all this is to blame on the Marvel Comics Company itself, which sold the copyrights of IP characters to the outside world earlier, but it can't be completely Marvel, it is not realistic to use love to generate electricity, and you can't live without selling these IPs, which is also a forced choice.

And this statement notice indicates that they plan to get back the copyright of some of Kirby's characters as early as 2014.

Jack Kirby is a well-known North American comic book artist, whose "X-Men", "Fantastic Four", "Thor" and "Hulk" are the treasures of Marvel Comics.

The day before yesterday, the news that Bluestar Technology intends to acquire Marvel Comics was exposed, and before that, Sony Columbia owned the copyright of "Spider-Man", Fox owned the copyright of "Fantastic Four" and "X-Men", and Paramount and Universal owned the distribution rights of some movies.

It's not easy to sort out the relationship between them, but the merger and acquisition of Bluestar Technology Group and Marvel Comics, whether it succeeds or fails, will come to an end before the release of "Iron Man".

This merger and acquisition is also attracting attention in the industry and Hollywood, after all, Bluestar Technology's investment in the film entertainment industry has been quite expensive, and last month it signed a digital film rights lease contract with major film companies, with a total amount of more than $5.2 billion.

This time, Bluestar Technology launched a merger and acquisition of Marvel Comics, and Hollywood is actually very vigilant, and Disney's sudden jump out and insert a lever is the best example.

But interestingly, Marvel Comics is very angry about this, and it stands to reason that someone should be happy to jump out and raise the price of Marvel.

If this is the case, of course, Marvel has a high salary, but the crux of the matter is that Disney Pictures does not have any sincerity in really wanting to buy Marvel Comics, but just wants to thwart Bluestar Technology Group.

The six major Hollywood film giants are well-known for holding together, and they are extremely resistant to outsiders entering this field to get a piece of the pie.

You must know that Sony also paid a lot of tuition when it entered Hollywood, lost a lot of money and gained a firm foothold in Hollywood, and was finally recognized by several traditional Hollywood film giants.

Now, the same is true for Sony Columbia Pictures.

But this is extremely angry for Marvel Comics, you don't want others to buy it if you don't buy it, isn't this forcing Marvel Comics to go up the cliff......

How can there be so much affection in shopping mall games?

Only the Franklin on the dollar bill is a sincere love, and there is no false element in it.

The key point of the sudden outbreak of the copyright battle is the comic book series created by Jack Kirby, and the point of dispute is whether he sold it to Marvel Company as an independent author, or whether it was a service work completed as an employee of Marvel Company.

Kirby has been dead for more than a decade, and during his time at Astonishing Comics, he created many classic comic book characters with Stan Lee, another pillar of the company.

After Kirby's family jumped out, all the demons and monsters followed.

For example, a Los Angeles law firm also jumped out to issue a statement, saying that it had fought a similar lawsuit earlier this year to help the heirs of "Superman" creator Jerome Siegel get some of the rights back.

Apparently, the law firm wanted Kirby's family to entrust them with the lawsuit, so that they could take over the order and fight the lawsuit with Bluestar Technology Group or Marvel Comics.

Another interesting thing here is that Stan Lee has been the face of Marvel Comics for many years, but many people don't even know Kirby's name.

In fact, this is one of the reasons why Jack Kirby switched to DC in the seventies of the last century.

Under North American copyright law, the author or heir can restart the process of obtaining copyright after a certain period of time after the initial authorization.

In other words, by 2017, Kirby's children will be able to claim that they own the rights to Fantastic Four, and the rights to Hulk and X-Men will expire in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

Marvel Comics is in a hurry, very anxious, and very angry, scolding Walt Disney for killing people, you don't want to be my father, and I am not allowed to recognize others as godfathers, you want me to die, right?

I have to say that Disney at this time did not want to acquire Marvel Comics at all, Luo Sheng's last Disney acquired Marvel because of the unprecedented success of "Iron Man", and finally saw the potential huge commercial value, so it acquired Marvel Studios for $4.2 billion, that is, Marvel Comics.

But right now, the North American comic giant isn't worth the price at all.

Just the day after the incident fermented, which was the third day of Zhang's interview with Avi Arad, a spokesman for Marvel Comics declined to comment on the incident.

At a temporary media conference, Lao Zhang personally attended and declared that the copyright dispute had been fully considered in the merger and acquisition of Bluestar Technology Group and Marvel Comics.

As time goes by, the risk is getting bigger and bigger, and Marvel Comics is really anxious this time, afraid that the thigh that passed in front of me this time will slip away without hugging.

So, on April 17, Avi Arad finally settled the board of directors and flew to China on the same day.

Because a week ago, Zhang Bowen had returned to China and did not stay in the United States for too long.

This is actually a strategy, Bluestar Technology really wants to merge the Marvel Comics Company under its command, but it shows dispensable interest to the outside world, which makes the Marvel Comics Company anxious to recognize each other in a hurry to "find a godfather".

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The day after Zhang Bowen returned to China, Bluestar Technology Group officially disclosed the audited financial report for the first quarter of 2008.

For the first quarter ended March 31, 2008, Bluestar Technology Group's global total revenue was US$4.48 billion, down 39.4% year-on-year and 31.7% quarter-on-quarter, with a net loss of US$1.775 billion.

Last year, 2007 was undoubtedly the highest moment since the establishment of Bluestar Technology Group, with annual revenue of 28.152 billion US dollars, and about 190 billion yuan without exchange rate changes, which is the first private enterprise in China.

Compared with the annual sales of 16 billion US dollars in 2007 last year, although this is also an astronomical amount, Bluestar Technology has clearly taken a big lead.

But after entering 2008, the performance finally inevitably fell sharply, which is inevitable, and now the entire world economy is in the cold winter, for the Bluestar Technology Group, which relies heavily on advertising profits and overseas revenue, the performance fluctuations are also expected.

When the economic crisis came, major companies have reduced their budgets, constantly increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, and advertising spending must be cut as much as possible.

Survival is all that matters.

As a world-class multinational technology group, Bluestar Technology Group accounts for more than 80% of its overseas revenue, which is naturally subject to large fluctuations.

The loss is also inevitable, because while the revenue has decreased significantly, Luo Sheng has not opened up the company and reduced the operating expenditure budget, and it is not surprising that the net profit loss is not surprising.

Not only that, but he also bought and bought during the cold winter, investing billions of dollars without blinking.

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