{"id":42475,"date":"2014-06-10T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/if-this-be-justice.html"},"modified":"2014-06-10T16:08:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T22:08:13","slug":"if-this-be-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/if-this-be-justice.html","title":{"rendered":"If This Be Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Okay, that title is more of a Lee-style bit of bombast than Kirby, but it sets the tone &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ll admit to being torn here. I have sympathy with Kirby having gotten a raw deal from Marvel, but it&#39;s not clear to me that his kids really have a legal leg to stand on here.<\/p>\n<p>I do sort of hope that SCOTUS takes the case, though, just to read the transcript of the justices asking questions about the Marvel characters. Though I suppose they will be accompanied by an annoying round of &quot;BIFF! WHAM!&quot; style headlines.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='overflow:hidden;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/LhZ4iEYSFfZTqGFn9CfNs4crU6DF6jJJHGbybwgd4jKK2NeMce8p61yrgyyL-q693Uuxz013UxJWpSVSKQXkGhMEUSazInlqq9OSi71msqx3Qyk8saNKV1RvHjwyAjZ3SCT0ln0DHzgHFQ3qXzcTHxLMsOc42UqtAFfr9vVigPrV1pB64HMiJHmzyFmvm8o997t072fOwna5SBMp_qozK_PsGtPY5pdE7Nq3uUijnF8tm70v-nUfozILvz0K8cv_iWRp=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jack-kirby-family-marvel-copyright-case-2014-6'>This Genius Helped Create The Avengers, X-Men, Captain America, Hulk, And Thor \u2014 And His Family Wants To Get Paid<\/a><br \/>\n                                                You may think of\u00a0Stan Lee when you hear&#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/4gUN5HH7293' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, that title is more of a Lee-style bit of bombast than Kirby, but it sets the tone &#8230; I&#39;ll admit to being torn here. I have sympathy with Kirby having gotten a raw deal from Marvel, but it&#39;s not clear to me that his kids really have a legal leg to stand on here. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/if-this-be-justice.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If This Be Justice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,11,79,525,75],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics","category-media-intellectual-property","category-marvel-cinematic-universe","category-media-performers","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1023,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/24\/21_20_19_18.html","url_meta":{"origin":42475,"position":0},"title":"21, 20, 19, 18 &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Oct-01 3:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"21, 20, 19, 18 ... 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