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LARSON v. WARNER BROS ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

Nos. 13-56243, 13-56244, 13-56257, 13-56259.

LAURA SIEGEL LARSON, individually and as personal representative of the Estate of Joanne Siegel, AKA Joanne Siegel, Plaintiff-counter-defendant-Appellant, v. WARNER BROS ENTERTAINMENT, INC., a corporation, Defendant-Appellee, and DC COMICS, a New York General Partnership, Defendant-counter-claimant-Appellee. LAURA SIEGEL LARSON, individually and as personal representative of the Estate of Joanne Siegel, AKA Joanne Siegel, Plaintiff-counter-defendant-Appellant, v. TIME WARNER, INC., a corporation; WARNER COMMUNICATIONS, INC., a corporation; WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT, INC.; WARNER BROTHERS TELEVISION PRODUCTION, INC., a corporation, Defendants-Appellees, and DC COMICS, a general partnership, Defendant-counter-claimant-Appellee. LAURA SIEGEL LARSON, individually and as personal representative of the Estate of Joanne Siegel, AKA Joanne Siegel, Plaintiff-counter-defendant-Appellee, v. WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT, INC., a corporation, Defendant-Appellant, DC COMICS, a New York General Partnership, Defendant-counter-claimant-Appellant. LAURA SIEGEL LARSON, individually and as personal representative of the Estate of Joanne Siegel, AKA Joanne Siegel, Plaintiff-counter-defendant-Appellee, v. TIME WARNER, INC., a corporation; WARNER COMMUNICATIONS, INC., a corporation; WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT, INC.; WARNER BROTHERS TELEVISION PRODUCTION, INC., a corporation, Defendants-Appellants, DC COMICS, a general partnership, Defendant-counter-claimant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 10, 2016.

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

MEMORANDUM*

This is another appeal in long-running litigation stemming from the 1938 transfer of the Superman copyright from Jerome Siegel, co-creator of Superman, to DC Comics ("DC"). In 2013, we decided that the October 19, 2001, letter ("2001 letter") from the Siegels' attorney to the attorney for DC constituted a binding settlement agreement that potentially resolved all questions in the suit. Larson...

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