In a complaint filed Friday, Mark Warren Peary, executor of his uncle Joe Shuster’s estate, argues that in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia, copyright reverts to a creator’s estate 25 years after their death. Shuster died in 1992. Peary alleges DC Comics and its parent Warner Bros. have since improperly profited from Superman in those territories and is seeking a court order preventing them from doing so, as well as damages. (The Logic)

Talking point: Shuster and co-creator Jerry Siegel sold the rights to Superman to DC’s predecessor in 1938 for just US$65 each. After the character became a hit, the pair took DC to court in 1947 in an unsuccessful effort to recover the copyright. The court case is the latest salvo in a long history of litigation between the creators, their estates and DC. The upcoming worldwide release of a new Superman movie makes DC’s alleged ongoing copyright infringement “ripe for adjudication,” the filing argues.