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"Warner Bros and DC Comics have retained the rights to Superman after a judge ruled in their favour in their legal dispute with the heirs of the character creators. District Court Judge Otis Wright II declared that co-creator Joe Shuster&amp;#039;s siblings relinquished their claim to the property in exchange for a pension from DC roughly 20 years ago, The AP reports.   Shuster created Superman with writer Jerry Siegel in 1938. Both men campaigned for increased compensation for the character throughout their lives, a cause which was taken up by their heirs. The co-creators&amp;#039; families claimed that they had the rights to reclaim the license under provisions that allowed creators of works made before 1978 a mechanism to reclaim their rights. However, Wright insisted that the pension agreements nullified their argument. &amp;quot;We respectfully disagree with its factual and legal conclusions, and it is surprising given that the judge appeared to emphatically agree with our position at the summary judgement hearing,&amp;quot; said the Shusters&amp;#039; attorney Marc Toberoff. Warner Bros. and its attorney Daniel Petrocelli declined comment. The studio is rebooting the Superman movie series with Zack Snyder&amp;#039;s Man of Steel, scheduled to land in cinemas on June 14, 2013. Watch a trailer for Man of Steel below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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