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August 28 is the 100th birthday of comics great Jack Kirby, born Jacob Kurtzberg, whose work remains in print 23 years after his death and...

August 28 would have been Jack Kirby's 98th birthday.  While Kirby has been gone since 1994, it's still a day to celebrate for a v...

Next Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States was to announce whether it would hear an appeal from the Jack Kirby estate over the es...

Updated at the bottom. Readers of this blog know of my interest in creator rights and the work of Jack Kirby.  Kirby was one of the mos...

For a short month, February has a lot of anniversaries, and this February marks several milestones. February 8 was the 100th anniversary o...

Jack Kirby, 1946 Jack Kirby, who passed away in 1994, would have been 96 years old today.  Here are a selection of links to celebrate Ki...

I'm sure some of you have your eyes glaze over every time I bring up Jack Kirby or copyright. However, I keep mentioning it as intellec...

August 28 would have been Jack Kirby's 94th birthday. Mark Evanier, who worked with Kirby, has his birthday tribute here , including ...

I am sure that this judgment will be appealed, but a Federal court has ruled that the work Jack Kirby did for Marvel was "work-for-hire...

Two comics, two creators, two different outcomes. A couple of things popped up this week which show, by contrast, the benefits of ownership....

Jack Kirby (left) and Jerry Siegel. Both of their estates are in litigation to recover the copyrights to the comic book characters they cre...

Rich Johnston , Nikki Finke and the N.Y. Times are reporting that the estate of Jack Kirby has filed for termination of copyright on the c...

Mark Evanier's biography of Jack Kirby, entitled Kirby, King of Comics , has been published by Abrams. The book is a retrospective of K...

Today is the 13th anniversary of Jack Kirby's death, and Mark Evanier has chosen today to announce the forthcoming publication of Kirby...