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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8650172" data-attributes="member: 19675">I create content as well besides working as a copyright attorney, and I wouldn’t represent myself in a copyright case.  I’d have to shell out $$$, same as anyone else.Realistically, you can’t take cash out of the equation.  For ANY interaction in the legal system in a capitalist society.  Until all attorneys are government agents, throwing money at a lawsuit is always going to have a potential effect on the verdict.Flip the script: imagine being a small or solo holder of copyrights, and BigCorp decided to challenge your IP.  Unless you win on a pretrial motion, you might be fighting towards a Pyrrhic victory.  You could win the case and still lose your IP as BigCorp outspends you to bankruptcy,That’s essentially what happened with Fawcett Comics’ Captain Marvel.  DC sued Fawcett, claiming that character infringed on Superman…and lost.  Captain Marvel was deemed not to be an illegal infringement of the copyrights in Superman, meaning Fawcett had perfectly valid copyrights in CM.  But it cost Fawcett so much to achieve that victory that Fawcett soon went bankrupt, even while Captain Marvel titles outsold Superman comics.  When Fawcett folded, DC Comics bought up the rights to Captain Marvel, which they own to this day.</blockquote>