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The Spider-Man Problem (update)
Planet Money
The Dumbest Thing We Ever Did 20 Years Ago
Sony has the rights to this one really famous Peter Parker Spider-Man. And then I guess technically they do also have the rights to, like, a mishmash of bench-warmer versions of Spider-Man as well that had been created over time. For example, Sony had Spider-Lizard, which is basically a crocodile in a Spider-Man costume who only ever spoke the wordsSpider-Lizard. They also had a man Spider, which is Spider-Man but further mutated into half-man, half-Spider monster. It's funny, you can see all these weird names laid out in excruciating legal detail when you look at Sony's Spider-Man rights contracts
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