Legal Rights For Ghost Rider Revert To Creator

huh, the ghost rider copyright lawsuit is back from the dead -- reuters.com/article/2013/0…
— Tom Spurgeon (@comicsreporter) June 11, 2013

The creator, Gary Friedrich, has appealed the decision that assigned all ownership, and damages, to Marvel and forbade him from even saying he'd created the character.

From this article at Reuters:

A comic book writer who claims he created the flaming-skulled character called Ghost Rider got another chance to press his claim on Tuesday when a U.S. appeals court revived his lawsuit against Marvel Comics.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a 2011 district court ruling that found the rights to the character belonged to Marvel Comics, owned by The Walt Disney Co. It returned the case to the lower court for trial.

Former Marvel freelancer Gary Friedrich, who claims he created the character, will pursue the case "aggressively and vigorously," his lawyer Charles Kramer said.

Ghost Rider, a motorcycle-riding vigilante whose head is a flaming skull, first appeared as a vigilante superhero in 1972.