[a fool in paradise]

This isn’t about buying a comics publisher, it’s about buying their trademarked characters to license as toys, rides, games, and movies.

And Disney Corp’s empire just got a bit larger. Let’s extend copyright another 50 years so they can own all of America’s pop cultural icons.

[relictele]

Oh I agree 100%. I think Disney took a wait-and-see attitude and let others run the risk of producing the first batch of Marvel movies in the CGI era.

Now that these films are dead certs for making a profit Disney is happy to take over.

[KarlInOhio]

There is a certain irony in Disney's perpetual copyrights when so many of Disney's movies were animations and slight modifications of public domain fairy tales. Too bad the great-great...-grandchildren of the Brothers Grimm can't stick their hands out for a multi-billion dollar copyright violation lawsuit.