I know nothing in comics stays dead forever, but shit, the return of the Teen Brigade? Didn't see that coming.
Look at how many Captain Marvels they've had. It has to have been motivated by the peculiar legal status of the name.
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Captain Marvel might be an exception, but I just dug through wikipedia and in general it looks like comic book characters get the standard 95 years from first date of publication for copyright coverage. Maybe it's different for trademarks?
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Trademarks don't have expirations or limited durations, but they do have to remain in use or they can be lost. I'm not clear on the implications of copyright of vs. trademark in comic book characters. I know it's moderately complicated.
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Interesting, thanks. I too wish that DC and Marvel would work out a joint ownership agreement, because both characters deserve to be called Captain Marvel. But it will probably never happen. Also, that article mixes up copyright and trademark in a couple of places, as usual.
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My guess is at this point DC is uninterested in the trademark or in ever calling the character Captain Marvel ever again, and the reason is movies. Marvel is now a movie production subsidiary of Disney, not a comic-book publisher. And DC is trying to get there as well. +
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Both Marvel and DC want to make movies from their properties, as many and as quickly as possible, and neither one want there to be the slightest hint of confusion over which one is which. So the Big Red Cheese will be named Shazam forever more, because that's more profitable.
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