Iron Man's suit is at the centre of an intergalactic copyright infringement battle brought by Horizon Comics Productions Inc. ("Horizon") against Marvel Entertainment, LLC et al. ("Marvel").
After years of legal dispute and substantial sums of money, they continue to copy our characters, Raymond Lai said in a statement to The Canadian Press. It causes us significant damage and has an impact on our ability to make a living as artists. Clearly, this repeated behaviour cannot be accepted.
The brothers had sued Marvel Entertainment and its owner, The Walt Disney Company, in 2013. They claimed the outfit worn by Iron Man in a poster for Marvel s Iron Man 3 looked too much like a suit for another Radix character, Caliban. The brothers, however, lost that legal case.
Ben and Raymond Lai say Marvel has copied their designs again. And their lawyers say they have a case because the brothers claims involve new Marvel costumes in different Marvel movies.
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Comic creators Ben and Raymond Lai are suing Marvel Entertainment for a second time, for what they claim are striking similarities between Iron Man and characters they designed in the early 2000s. (Marvel Entertainment)
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A Lai brothers character, Caliban, is shown in this handout image provided by Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP. When Montreal-based comic book company founders Ben and Raymond Lai watched the 2018 Marvel movie Avengers: Infinity War, they knew they had to sue Marvel Entertainment â again. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Horizon Comics Productions MANDATORY CREDIT May 04, 2021 - 1:00 AM
MONTREAL - When Montreal-based comic book company founders Ben and Raymond Lai watched the 2018 Marvel movie Avengers: Infinity War, they said they knew they had to sue Marvel Entertainment â again.
The Lai brothers, founders of Horizon Comics Productions, claim the armour worn by Iron Man in the movie is too similar to the outfit sported by Maxwell, a character they developed for their Radix comic series in the early 2000s.