You may know about the legal problems that have been plaguing the Superman character for roughly the past year. Long story short, the family of Jerry Siegel, one of Superman's 1938 creators, has decided they want to regain the rights to the character, which DC apparently assigned to Siegel "forever," according to Variety (you know the DC execs must be cursing the company's 1938 management right now). The Siegels won the lawsuit, successfully regaining the rights to many (but not all) aspects of Superman, and the ruling is set to go into effect in 2013. Oh, and when the estate of of co-creator Joe Shuster found out about this, they got in on the deal, too.

You may remember how back in September the estate of Jack Kirby, co-creator of many a famous Marvel Comics property, notified Marvel that they would be canceling the company's rights to the copyrights of the characters Kirby helped create.

You might remember the big hoopla surrounding X-Men Origins: Wolverine this past April. Someone leaked the entire movie (with unfinished special effects sequences) onto the internet days before it was released.

According to the L.A. Times, Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek, the Hollywood producers who own the Terminator franchise, are looking to sell it off in the wake of their company's bankruptcy.

Rich Johnston from Bleeding Cool reports that the estate of Jack Kirby, co-creator of Marvel Comics properties such as The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, and Iron Man, has sent notices to Marvel and Disney, terminating their copyrights on the properties he created.

A few weeks ago, we brought you the news that the legal rights to Superman's origins were given back to his creators' families, creating a somewhat erratic situation in which different aspects of the character now belong to different people.

A recent press release from Fathom Studios, the company behind the 2008 fantasy film Delgo, discusses possible legal action against Twentieth Century Fox over similarities it cites between Avatar and their film.

Variety reports that the family of Jerry Siegel, co-writer of Action Comics #1 (1938), the comic in which Superman first appeared, has won the rights to the basic elements of the superhero’s origin story.