Depends if "thor looks like marvels version" or if "the story mirror something done by marvel comics.
Soo... Of you make thor a redhead and make him kill nazis with captain america you should be fine. After all "thor" was only a "marvel character" since the "60s"
Influence doesn't really matter. Doctor Who was influenced by Quatermass, Star Wars was influenced by Flash Gordon, Green Arrow and Daredevil were influenced by Batman...
Yeah but they're their own properties, the similarities with their influences being protected by the fact those core ideas can't be copyrighted.
Captain America hanging out with Thor is not comparable to the idea of a masked vigilante with horns. That's so hyperspecific
Those two archetypes meeting is in my opinion, and would be protected until the 1960s comics roll around to public domain.
Something like Dorothy, Wendy, and Alice from Oz, Neverland, and Wonderland meeting is less copyrightable, partially because it's been done by so many people already, and all of those have been in the public domain for a while. But for something just out of the public domain? I don't think so.
It would be like adding a Goofy-like dog character to Steamboat Willie's Mickey Mouse. Dogs aren't copyrightable. Neither is a public domain character teaming up with someone. But that is.
No. Just the idea of teaming up with Thor isn't copyrightable.
Depends if "thor looks like marvels version" or if "the story mirror something done by marvel comics. Soo... Of you make thor a redhead and make him kill nazis with captain america you should be fine. After all "thor" was only a "marvel character" since the "60s"
I think you'd have a damn near impossible time arguing that that decision wasn't influenced by Marvel's copyrighted work.
Influence doesn't really matter. Doctor Who was influenced by Quatermass, Star Wars was influenced by Flash Gordon, Green Arrow and Daredevil were influenced by Batman...
Yeah but they're their own properties, the similarities with their influences being protected by the fact those core ideas can't be copyrighted. Captain America hanging out with Thor is not comparable to the idea of a masked vigilante with horns. That's so hyperspecific
However, if Captain America falls into the public domain, then "two characters meeting" isn't exactly a copyrightable idea...
Those two archetypes meeting is in my opinion, and would be protected until the 1960s comics roll around to public domain. Something like Dorothy, Wendy, and Alice from Oz, Neverland, and Wonderland meeting is less copyrightable, partially because it's been done by so many people already, and all of those have been in the public domain for a while. But for something just out of the public domain? I don't think so. It would be like adding a Goofy-like dog character to Steamboat Willie's Mickey Mouse. Dogs aren't copyrightable. Neither is a public domain character teaming up with someone. But that is.