That means that me or any other jackass can publish Captain America comics and pocket all of the profits. Or create a TV show or movie.

I think that if I invented a corn-picker while working for someone and they made money off of it,knowing that that was the deal I was hired to do and was paid for my work,then that's the bottom line.The thing is,should my grand-kids have a right to the ownership of something I was hired to do and they had no part in?No I don't think so.They have a right to the monies and materials I pass along to them by way of what I did in the will I set forth,not coming back years later demanding compensation from the company who I worked for no matter what it was and how much money it's making that company.I would hope that I raised my kids better than that.You want money...you go earn it by your own accomplishments and hard-work,not pilfer off of what your dad or grand-daddy did before you.

here's the thing. did the farmer hire to you pick corn or to make a corn picker? if he hired you only to pick the corn, then the means with which you do it are yours. he is not entitled to take your corn picker and claim it as his own. if he hired you to create a better means to pick the corn, it's a little different.

Steven Grant lays it all out here:


http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=23047



you should really read this, Al, especially the part about the family's right to lay claim to the characters.

Intersting reading there Grimm,thanks.I stand(or sit in this case)corrected on most of what was said.They're following the legal obligation and that's perfectly legitimate.I understand better now the terms of what went on back in the day before work-for-hire was in effect but also that that's the way it was done back then.So who knows?Maybe it'll play out to be nothing in the long run or maybe it won't.We'll wait and see.....in the meantime I got a killer Dracula novella I wrote I'm selling movie rights for.Eat it Snarf!!