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

The copyright statement was that Jack Kirby's family issued 45 notices of termination of copyright through the media on the same day, and handed it to Marvel Entertainment, Blue Star Technology, Disney, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, and other companies that have used these comic character companies.

Bluestar Technology also got a copy because it bought the Marvel Comics creditor's claim from Merrill Lynch.

"What a good thing is so hard!"

Living in the hotel, Zhang Bowen smiled bitterly at the content of the New York Times. He was surprised by the original sin of all this. He sold the copyright of IP characters to the public earlier, but he couldn't be completely surprised and surprised. It was not realistic to use love to generate electricity. He couldn't survive without selling these IPs. This was also a forced choice.

The notice stated that they plan to retrieve the copyright of some Kirby's creative characters as early as 2014.

Jack Kirby is a famous North American cartoonist. His "X-Men", "Fantastic Four", "Thor", and "Hulk" are the treasures of Marvel Comics.

The day before yesterday, news that Blue Star Technology intends to acquire Marvel Comics was exposed. In addition, Sony Columbia has the copyright of "Spider-Man", Fox has the copyright of "Fantasy Four" and "X-Men", and Paramount and Universal have the distribution rights for some movies.

It is not easy to clarify the relationship here, but the merger and acquisition case between Blue Star Technology Group and Marvel Comics will be successful or failed before the release of "Iron Man".

This merger case has also attracted much attention in the industry and Hollywood. After all, Bluestar Technology has invested quite a lot in the film entertainment industry. Last month, it signed a digital film copyright leasing contract with major film companies, with a total amount of more than US$5.2 billion.

This time, Bluestar Technology launched a merger and acquisition against Marvel Comics, and Hollywood is actually very vigilant. Disney suddenly jumped out and made a fuss. This is the best example.

But interestingly, Marvel Comics is very angry about this. It is logical that someone jumped out to raise the price of Marvel.

If this is true, Marvel will certainly have a high salary, but the key to the problem is that Disney Pictures does not have any sincerity to really want to acquire Marvel Comics, but just want to obstruct Blue Star Technology Group.

The six major Hollywood movie giants are famous for joining each other. Their interests are divided into several of them, and they are extremely resistant to outsiders entering this field and getting a share of the pie.

You should know that when Sony entered Hollywood, he paid a lot of tuition fees, lost a lot of money and gained a foothold in Hollywood, and was finally recognized by several major traditional film giants in Hollywood.

Now, Sony Columbia Pictures is the same.

But this is extremely angry for Marvel Comics. If you don’t buy it, you don’t want others to 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 I have a sincere love for Franklin on the US dollar bill, and there is no false element in it.

The key point of the sudden outbreak of copyright battle lies in the comic series created by Jack Kirby. The point of the dispute is whether he sold it to Marvel as an independent author or his job work completed as an employee of Marvel.

Kirby has been dead for more than a decade. While working at Marvel Comics, he once created many classic comic characters with Stan Lee, another pillar of the company.

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

For example, a Los Angeles law firm also jumped out to issue a statement saying they had fought a similar lawsuit earlier this year, helping the heirs of "Superman" creator Jerome Siegel to retrieve some of the copyright.

Obviously, the law firm wants Kirby's family to entrust the lawsuit to them and ask them to take the order and go to the lawsuit with Bluestar Technology Group or Marvel Comics.

Another interesting thing here is that Stan Lee Changnian, as the spokesperson for Marvel Comics, travels to and from major occasions, but many people don’t even know Kirby’s name.

In fact, this is one of the reasons why Jack Kirby turned to Marvel's archenemy DC in the 1970s.

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

In other words, by 2017, Kirby's children can claim that they own the copyright of "Fantastic Four", and the copyright of "Hulk" and "X-Men" will expire in the year respectively.

Marvel Comics is anxious, very anxious, and very angry, scolding Walt Disney for killing people. If you don’t be my father, you may not be allowed to regard others as your godfather. You just want me to die, right?

It has to be said that at this time Disney had no intention of acquiring Marvel. Luo Sheng's last life Disney acquired Marvel because of the unprecedented success of "Iron Man", and finally saw the potential huge commercial value, which led to acquiring Marvel Studios for US$4.2 billion, which is Marvel Comics.

But now, this North American comics giant is not worth the price at all.

Just the day after the incident fermented, the third day after Zhang Bowen and Avi Arad interviewed, the spokesperson of Marvel Comics refused to comment on the incident.

Zhang Bowen and Bluestar Technology Group were not idle and did nothing. At a temporary media conference, Lao Zhang personally attended and claimed 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 risks are getting bigger and bigger. Marvel Comics is really anxious this time, afraid that the thighs that were walking past you will slip away without hugging them.

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

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

This is actually a strategy. It is true that Bluestar Technology wants to merge Marvel Comics into its company, but it shows dispensable interest in the outside world. This makes Marvel Comics, which is eager to "find a godfather" and recognize each other urgently.

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Just the day after Zhang Bowen returned to China, Bluestar Technology Group officially disclosed its first quarter audit financial report for 2008.

As of the first quarter report on March 31, 2008, Bluestar Technology Group's total global revenue was US$4.48 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 39.4%, a month-on-month decrease of 31.7%, and a net loss of US$100 million.

Last year, 2007 was undoubtedly the highest moment since its establishment. Its annual revenue reached US$100 million, and it was converted into RMB about RMB190 billion regardless of exchange rate changes, making it well-deserved first among domestic private enterprises.

Compared with Huawei's annual sales in 2007 last year was US$16 billion. Although this is also an astronomical figure, Bluestar Technology has obviously led by a big margin.

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

As the economic crisis comes, major companies have reduced their budgets and are constantly increasing revenue and reducing expenditures. Advertising expenses will definitely be cut if they can be cut.

Surviving is the most important thing.

Let’s just say that, as a world-class multinational technology group, Bluestar Technology Group has a foreign revenue of more than 80%, so it is naturally subject to significant fluctuations.

Loss is inevitable, because while revenue has been greatly reduced, Luo Sheng did not increase revenue and reduce expenditure on the company and reduce operating expenses budgets, so the net profit loss is no surprise.

Not only that, he was still buying and buying during the cold winter, with a investment of billions of dollars without blinking.

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(Today there is a chapter of monthly tickets and the noun was exposed~ I burst into tears)
Chapter completed!