POW! Entertainment Releases Statement Regarding Stan Lee Lawsuit

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POW! Entertainment has released a statement in wake of Stan Lee’s daughter suing the company in order to receive all of her late father’s intellectual property.

Stan Lee’s daughter JC Lee is suing POW! Entertainment to obtain all of the intellectual property that her father worked on at the company. Stan Lee created POW! Entertainment after he left Marvel in the 1990s. JC Lee would like all rights that POW! Entertainment has towards her father to be reverted back to the Stan Lee estate and that the company should not use Stan Lee’s likeness to promote their company.

This isn’t the first time that POW! Entertainment has had lawsuits filed against it by members of the Stan Lee estate. Just before his passing last year, Stan Lee sued POW! Entertainment for the exact same reason his daughter is, but he later withdrew it.

With this new lawsuit, POW! Entertainment released a statement to Comicbook.com, which you may read below.

“It is truly unfortunate that Stan Lee’s name has to be involved in these continued frivolous actions which are truly nothing more than family drama.

J.C. Lee and others have unsuccessfully brought these very same arguments to court in multiple cases over the past 20 years, unfortunately, even leveling these arguments against her father when he was still alive. In those prior cases, the court system ruled in POWs favor, confirming without question POW! is the legal and proper owner of these rights. We are more than confident that this case will be promptly disposed of by the courts.

What is truly saddening for those at POW!, many of whom have been Stan’s Closest confidants, friends, and business associates for so many years, is to see his estranged daughter using Stan’s name in such a brazen and transparent effort to gain media attention and extract some financial settlement. The reality is that Stan Lee himself left specific instructions, including legal declarations, specifying that JC Lee is not to have any control, say, claim, right, or interest in or to the intellectual property that Stan left behind. Stan’s own instructions dictate that JC Lee is not to have any involvement whatsoever in the commercial development of Stan’s intellectual property. POW! is now, and always has been, Stan Lee’s company and his legacy and will be forever, the way he wanted it to be.

All of the past legal actions are a matter of public record and plainly show that the present legal action is nothing more than a perverse publicity stunt.”

It appears through this statement that POW! Entertainment isn’t budging and believes that it’s the sole owner of Stan Lee’s intellectual property. Stan Lee created a variety of properties under POW! Entertainment but none of them were able to capture the success that his work with Marvel did. Stan Lee passed away last year, leaving behind him a fantastic legacy that continues to live on through comic books and movies featuring his beloved characters.

For more information on this lawsuit involving Stan Lee’s daughter and POW! Entertainment, be sure to stay tuned to Heroic Hollywood.

Source: Comicbook.com