Henault said her clients prefer not to comment considering the ongoing judicial proceedings, but provided a statement. MIT issued a public apology for using the images without consent.Īfter "the MIT controversy" Marvel contacted the Lai brothers again, and they accepted the offer in 2002 and worked on Marvel's Thor and X-Men comics. The suit reads that MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) copied the illustration for a $50-million research grant to create the Institute for Solider Technology in 2002.
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Marvel is not the only organization alleged to have taken and used the Lai brothers' designs. The suit says Marvel's now editor-in-chief, Chester Bror Cebulski, approached the Lai brothers to work as artists for Marvel based on the popular series, but they declined the offer.
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Image Comics is a direct competitor of Marvel, and produces the Spawn, Summoners War and Gideon Falls series, among others. Lawyers Julie Desrosiers and Patricia Henault filed the motion on April 22 in Quebec Civil Court.
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The three-volume Radix series was published by Image Comics and ran from December 2001 to April 2002 and "gathered substantial interest in the comic industry and sold tens of thousands of copies in Canada and the USA," according to the suit. Horizon Comics was founded in Montreal in 1995. Horizon Comics and its founders Ben and Raymond Lai allege that Marvel used their designs without consent or compensation and are suing for damages and an injunction "to put an end to this deliberate and persistent infringement, and to order the defendants to pay compensatory and punitive damages to the plaintiff, in addition to Horizon’s costs, including solicitor-client costs," the suit reads. A Montreal-based comic book company is suing Marvel Entertainment and Disney for allegedly ripping off its designs multiple times in its Iron Man, Ant-man and Avengers series.