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    That Darn Marvel Contract – What Rights Does Universal and Disney Own

    Thank you for the welcome. I'm not sure why you quoted that particular piece, but your post is welcome. I'm mainly interested in the legal aspects of the contract, not in Disney or Comcast's executive feelings or fans' feelings. I'm not going to argue subjective feelings here. Once can...
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    That Darn Marvel Contract – What Rights Does Universal and Disney Own

    Let's take a look at section IV.b.A.1.i which is where the specifics are given. Let's break that paragraph down. Pretty straightforward, no other theme park can use the characters being used by MCA at the time the license was granted. For a character to be considered used by MCA 1) That...
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    That Darn Marvel Contract – What Rights Does Universal and Disney Own

    Those could certainly be construed as incidental elements as per the very verbiage of the original contract.
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    That Darn Marvel Contract – What Rights Does Universal and Disney Own

    So I feel like I'm back to square one now. 1) There is no evidence that a 2nd amendment took place to the original document 2) There is no evidence that any further amendments to the document would be uploaded to SEC's website 3) That's not to say a 2nd amendment didn't happen. I just don't see...
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    That Darn Marvel Contract – What Rights Does Universal and Disney Own

    Thank you for the reply. So the question then is, what incentive did Disney have for signing the 2nd amendment and being restricted from seeing financial, and other, information from Universal? If they are not getting anything back, why would they agree to that? That's the reason I wanted to...
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    That Darn Marvel Contract – What Rights Does Universal and Disney Own

    I emailed the author of the article, but I will ask here as well. The article in the OP mentions that the original contract was amended twice, once in 1995 regarding payment and fees and once shortly after Disney bought Marvel to protect Universal from allowing Disney access to certain...