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The Tangled Web of Rights to Spider-Man

The Tangled Web of Rights to Spider-Man

  Long before Disney’s Marvel films dominated the box office, Marvel, still an independent company, sold the rights to Spider-Man to Sony in 1998. Marvel retained the comics rights, but Sony could produce films with the character and sell merchandise – if you’ve ever wondered there always seems to be a new Spider-Man film on […]