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    Rights to Spiderman.. —Rob Antonishen
   I saw in the (URL) and Mail> that Mega Bloks "has Spider-Man on its side since the Montreal company struck an exclusive deal last fall with Marvel Enterprises to develop products featuring Marvel's super heroes, which also include X-Men, Hulk and (...) (19 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
   
        Re: Rights to Spiderman.. —Jesper Kjaer
     (...) To answer the last part: no listings in the Danish 2005 catalogue... /Jesper (19 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
   
        Re: Rights to Spiderman.. —James Stacey
   Megablocks have the comic rights. Lego have the film rights. Lego can only produce sets relevant to the films, megablocks can't reference the films only the comics. You might find that the Lego deal is with Sony(?) and the Megablocks one, directly (...) (19 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
   
        Re: Rights to Spiderman.. —Dave Schuler
   (...) You make a good distinction between film-character and comic-character rights, but it might not apply across the board in this case. Although LEGO did indeed have the tie-in rights for the Spiderman films, it appears that MEGABLOKS has (...) (19 years ago, 27-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
 

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