On: Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this...

[d-us-vb]

I hope you're joking. Spider-man is owned entirely by Sony. It is only by a tenuous contract that Disney was able to get Spider-Man into the MCU.

[MisterBastahrd → d-us-vb]

Spider-Man is almost entirely owned by Marvel. Spider-Man's live action movie rights are owned by Sony as long as they produce at least one film with the character every 5 years and 9 months. This includes co-producing them with Marvel. Universal owns the film rights to both solo Hulk and Namor films. Finally, Fox owned the right to make 13 X-Men films, Fantastic Four, and Deadpool films over 20 years, but Disney bought those rights back.

[CharlesW → d-us-vb]

Sony has film rights only, for as long as they produce a new Spider-Man movie every five years.

[nvrspyx → d-us-vb]

The film rights are owned by Sony. As part of the deal in relinquishing some creative control to Disney for the MCU, Sony also has exclusivity to Spider-Man centric video games (e.g., other games, like Midnight Suns, can use Spider-Man as a supporting character, but not the primary character).

[manojlds → nvrspyx]

Funnily, Nintendo got Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 which had Spiderman.

[citizenkeen → d-us-vb]

Wow. No.

Spider-Man is owned by Marvel, which is owned by Disney.

Sony has an exclusive license to the film rights which they will eventually lose and cede back to Disney.

[toast0 → citizenkeen]

> Sony has an exclusive license to the film rights which they will eventually lose and cede back to Disney.

Not if they keep making a reboot and two sequels every few years (contract is one film every 5 years, AFAIK)