You can’t make this shit up. It appears Gary Friedrich, the creator of Ghost Rider is taking Marvel, Hasbro and Take – Two to court for how they handled the Ghost Rider Character/Copyright Infringement. We get the story from Yahoo:
The creator of Ghost Rider (Gary Friedrich) has sued Marvel Enterprises, Sony Pictures Entertainment and several entities over what he claims is an unauthorized “joint venture and conspiracy to exploit, profit from and utilize” his copyrights to the comic book character.
Friedrich alleges copyright infringement, and accuses Marvel of waste for failing “to properly utilize and capitalize” on the Ghost Rider character. Marvel’s attempts to do so, Friedrich claims, have only damaged the value of his work by failing to properly promote and protect the characters and by accepting inadequate royalties from co-defendants. Friedrich also claims that toymaker Hasbro and videogame firm Take-Two have improperly created merchandise based on the characters.
This could of been the greatest episode of Night Court ever! I would pay to be at the hearing. “Your honor, Ghost Rider fuckin’ rules and the movie, toys and video game were total bullshit!” I think this will be a hard pitch to a judge, lets just hope he is a Ghost Rider fan. I cannot wait to see how this pans out.
All joking aside, it would be tough to have a character that you created and love end up in someone else’s hands and turned to shit in front of you. I would probably cry myself to sleep. But if you don’t want someone to fuck it up – do it yourself. I feel for Gary. It is a tough time for him and as he sleeps on ghost rider sheets tonight I want him to know that we are here for him regardless of the verdict. It could be worse Gary – did you see what they did to the Hulk?
