POW! Entertainment controversies
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2019
J.C. Lee files lawsuit against POW! Entertainment
Lawsuit filed
J.C. Lee filed a lawsuit against POW! Entertainment in California, reviving claims alleging that company executives sought to sell Stan Lee’s intellectual property, name, and likeness rights. The suit seeks damages and claims to name and likeness rights, domain names, and websites.
Stated objective. To restore rights assigned to Stan Lee’s namesake company and remedy alleged wrongs.
Source excerpt
Lee has filed a new lawsuit against POW! Entertainment—the company Stan Lee founded alongside Gill Champion and Arthur Lieberman in 2001 as a holding firm for the writer’s various intellectual properties since he departed Marvel Comics in the 1990s—in California.
The new suit revives claims from a prior, billion-dollar lawsuit filed against the company on Lee’s behalf back in May 2018, which alleged that POW! executives, including Champion, took advantage of Lee’s deteriorating health in an attempt to sell his intellectual property, name, and likeness rights to Chinese holding company Camsing International.
Among other things, the suit aims to collect damages and claim name and likeness rights, as well as domain names and websites.