Copyrights and Changing the Agreements

How the 1978 Copyright Laws Changed the Landscape

In May 1978, Marvel sent out a memo to all staff, including freelancers, alerting them to a change in the way they would be doing business going forward. Copyright laws had recently changed in favor of creators, giving them the opportunity to claim their works back from the companies that had published them.

In short, the new laws, which replaced previou…