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These two things became the variables of Bluestar Technology's acquisition of Marvel Comics.

The copyright statement is that Jack Kirby’s family issued 45 notices of termination of copyright through the media on the same day and handed them to Marvel Entertainment, Bluestar Technology, Disney, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures and other companies that have used these comic characters.

Bluestar Technology also got a copy because it bought Marvel Comics' claims from Merrill Lynch.

"It's such a good thing!"

Living in the hotel, Zhang Bowen looked at the content of the "New York Times" and shook his head with a wry smile. The original sin of all this is to blame Marvel Comics. Earlier, it sold the copyright of IP characters to the public. However, Marvel cannot be completely blamed. It's not realistic. You can't live without selling these IPs. This is also a last resort.

The notice of this statement indicates that they plan to retrieve the copyright of some of Kirby's characters as early as 2014.

Jack Kirby is a well-known cartoonist in North America. His "X-Men", "Fantastic Four", "Thor" and "Hulk" are the treasures of Marvel Comics.

The day before yesterday, the news that Bluestar Technology intends to acquire Marvel Comics was exposed. In addition, Sony Columbia had the copyrights of Spider-Man, Fox owned the copyrights of Fantastic Four and X-Men, and Paramount. And Universal has the distribution rights for some movies.

It is not easy to clarify the relationship here, but the merger between Bluestar Technology Group and Marvel Comics, regardless of success or failure, will produce results before the release of "Iron Man".

This M&A case has also attracted much attention in the industry and Hollywood. After all, Bluestar Technology’s investment in the film entertainment industry has been quite expensive. Last month, it signed digital film copyright lease contracts with major film companies. The total amount exceeded The sky-high price of US$5.2 billion.

This time, Bluestar Technology launched the merger and acquisition of Marvel Comics. Hollywood was actually very vigilant. Disney suddenly jumped out and jumped into it as the best example.

But what's interesting is that Marvel Comics is very angry about this. It stands to reason that someone jumped out to raise the price and was surprised to be happy.

If this is the case, Marvel will certainly have a high salary, but the crux of the problem is that Disney Pictures has no sincerity and really wants to acquire Marvel Comics, it just wants to obstruct the Bluestar Technology Group.

The six Hollywood movie giants are well-known for their own interests, and they are very resistant to outsiders entering this field.

You must know that when Sony entered Hollywood, it also paid a lot of tuition, and lost a lot of money to gain a foothold in Hollywood, and finally it was recognized by several traditional Hollywood movie giants.

Now, Sony Columbia Pictures is the same.

But this is extremely angry for Marvel Comics. If you don’t buy it, you don’t want others to buy it. This is not forcing Marvel Comics to step onto the cliff...

How can there be so much affection in shopping malls?

Only Franklin on the dollar bills is a true love, without any false elements in it.

The copyright battle that broke out suddenly lies in the comic series created by Jack Kirby. The dispute lies in whether he sold it to Surprise as an independent author or did it as an employee of Surprise. .

Kirby has died more than ten years ago. During his work in Marvel Comics, he used to create many classic comics characters with the company's other pillar, Stan Lee.

After Kirby's family jumped out, all the demons and monsters followed.

For example, a Los Angeles law firm also jumped out and issued a statement saying that they had fought a similar lawsuit earlier this year and helped the heir of "Superman" creator Jerome Siegel get back part of the copyright.

Obviously, this law firm wants Kirby's family to entrust them with a lawsuit, so that they can take up the order and bring the lawsuit against Bluestar Technology Group or Marvel Comics.

Another interesting thing here is that Stan Lee has been the spokesperson of Marvel Comics for many years, but many people don't even know Kirby's name.

In fact, this is one of the reasons why Jack Kirby switched to Marvel Comics' mortal enemy DC in the 1970s.

According to North American copyright law, the author or heir can restart the process of obtaining copyright after a period of time after the initial authorization.

In other words, by 2017, Kirby’s children will be able to claim that they own the copyright of "Fantastic Four", and "Hulk" and "X-Men" will also expire in 2018 and 2019.

Marvel Comics is anxious, very anxious, and very angry, yelling at Walt Disney for murdering people and condemning the heart, you are not my father, and you are not allowed to recognize others as godfather, you just want me to die, right?

What I have to say is that at this time, Disney did not mean to acquire Marvel Comics at all. Luo Sheng’s last life Disney acquired Marvel because of the unprecedented success of "Iron Man" and finally saw the potential huge commercial value. Only $4.2 billion acquired Marvel Pictures, which is Marvel Comics.

But now, this North American comic book giant is not worth the price.

Just the day after the matter was fermented, that is, the third day of Zhang Bowen's interview with Avi Allard, a Marvel Comics spokesperson declined to comment on the incident.

And Zhang Bowen and Bluestar Technology Group are not idle and do nothing. At a temporary media conference, Lao Zhang personally attended and declared that the copyright dispute was in the merger of Bluestar Technology Group and Marvel Comics. Has been fully considered.

As time goes by, the risks are getting bigger and bigger. Marvel Comics is really anxious this time, fearing that the thighs that are walking in front of me will slip away without being hugged.

So, on April 17th, Avi Allard finally settled the board of directors and flew to China on the same day.

Because a week ago, Zhang Bowen had already returned to China and did not stay in the United States for too long.

This is actually a strategy. Bluestar Technology really wants to incorporate Marvel Comics into its subordinates, but it shows dispensable interest to the outside world. This instead makes Marvel Comics eager to "find godfathers" to recognize each other. The company is anxious to recognize each other.

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On the second day after Zhang Bowen returned to China, Bluestar Technology Group officially disclosed the audited financial report for the first quarter of 2008.

As of the first quarter report on March 31, 2008, Bluestar Technology Group’s total global revenue was US$4.48 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 39.4% and a month-on-month decrease of 31.7%, with a net loss of US$1.775 billion.

Last year, 2007 was undoubtedly the brightest moment since the establishment of Bluestar Technology Group. The annual revenue reached 28.152 billion U.S. dollars, which was converted into more than 190 billion RMB regardless of exchange rate changes. It is the well-deserved first among domestic private enterprises.

By comparison, the annual sales in 2007 were 16 billion U.S. dollars last year. Although this is an astronomical figure, Bluestar Technology has clearly led the way.

However, after entering 2008, the performance finally inevitably fell sharply. This is inevitable. The entire world economy is currently in a cold winter. For the Bluestar Technology Group, which relies heavily on advertising profits and overseas revenue, the large fluctuations in performance are also due to As expected.

The economic crisis has come, and major companies have reduced their budgets, constantly increasing revenue and reducing expenditures. Advertising expenditures must be cut as much as possible.

Survival is the most important thing.

Let's leave it alone. As a world-class multinational technology group, Bluestar Technology Group has more than 80% of its overseas revenue, so it is naturally subject to substantial fluctuations.

Loss is also inevitable, because at the same time as the revenue has been drastically reduced, Luo Sheng did not increase revenue and reduce expenditures for the company, and reduce the budget of operating expenses, so it is not surprising that the net profit loss.

Not only that, but he was still buying and buying during the cold winter, investing billions of dollars without blinking.

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