According to the complaint, Shuster and co-creator Jerome Siegel sold the global rights to Superman to DC Comics in 1938 for just $130. However, under the British legal tradition, intellectual property rights revert to an author’s estate 25 years after their death. Shuster died in 1992, meaning the rights allegedly reverted to his estate in 2017. The estate is now arguing that Warner Bros. has continued to exploit Superman in those regions without authorization, violating copyright laws that req
