And so the case, or cases, rumbled on. In 2008, a Los Angeles court ruled that the Siegel heirs were entitled to a share of the US copyright to the character, a decision that allowed the Siegels and Shusters to make their own film, but with one major caveat: they would only have rights to the Superman characteristics set out in the first 13 pages. So no flying through the air, no Lex Luther, no kryptonite − they came later. Mercifully, perhaps, Judge Otis Wright looked to the precedent established in a lawsuit against Facebook by the Winklevoss twins; he overturned the 2008 decision, citing a disputed 2001 agreement (Siegel’s attorney Marc Toberoff dismisses it as a “letter”) in which the Siegel heirs agreed to a $1 million payout plus three-tenths of one percent of the gross in any new Superman films.