| Details On Marvel's PHASE ONE Blu-ray Box Set Lawsuit |
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| Tuesday, 04 September 2012 08:39 |
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Marvel's "Phase One" Blu-ray set containing The Avengers and all of the movies leading up to it has been highly anticipated by fans for quite a while now. The 6 movie/10 disc set comes packaged in a briefcase, which is a replica of the one containing the Tesseract, or "Cosmic Cube", from The Avengers. The design of said briefcase was actually based on one manufactured by German luggage company Rimowa BhmbH - who, you guessed it, hold the copyrights. Apparently all of the necessary legal paperwork was filed and permission granted for the briefcase’s use in the movie, but not for the selling of a replica case, or the Tesseract itself. Doh!
Here is part of the complaint filed by Rimowa BhmbH in federal court in California..
“Marvel did not obtain any license or authorization from Rimowa to make replica copies of the case for any purpose . . . the plastic ‘replica Read more: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/rorschachsrants/news/?a=66759 |
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