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The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Legal Loophole That Could Strip Marvel of Its Superheroes

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3847 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Matt is joined by lawyer Aaron Moss to discuss a legal loophole that is suddenly a big deal to legacy film and TV studios called “termination rights,” a quirk of copyright law that allows certain creators to recapture their work. If you’re a studio like Marvel, that loophole could lead to a large headache. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Aaron Moss Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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All right, it is Wednesday, April 27th, and I am coming to you from Las Vegas,

1:06.0

where the annual Cinemicon convention is happening.

1:08.9

That's a movie theater executive convention where they all get together at Caesar's Palace and they sit there and each one by one the studios present their wares, so to speak.

1:18.6

You get whatever's coming up in the DC movie universe.

1:22.1

Today, Disney is presenting about what their Marvel movies are going to be.

1:26.7

It's really a nice way to

1:28.6

see what the next six to eight months in movies is going to be, especially the ones that are

1:34.2

going directly to theaters, which is what everybody here talks about. One of the other things

1:39.3

they talk about here, and it's sort of an unspoken issue, but they do actually explicitly give a presentation

1:46.0

on this, is how valuable the whole intellectual property industry is, both to the U.S. and the

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