I know Disney owns the Spider-Man IP, but as long as Sony
keeps solely producing movies with Spider-Man characters,
they get to keep the movie rights, which is why they
started the Venomverse. Sony Pictures was pressured by
Sony of Japan to make a deal with Disney to let Spider-Man
characters be in the MCU, but they're hoping the deal runs
out because then they can plop Spider-Man in the
Venomverse as they can't use the character of Spider-Man
specifically right now for live action stuff. If they
never started the Venomverse, and only had the MCU
Spider-Man movies, Disney would've eventually
automatically gotten the rights back because Sony hadn't
SOLELY been producing any movies with Spider-Man
characters for a number of years.

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But, basically, to get back to the original point,
Spider-Man was always rebooted for money. But if it were
up to Marvel, the one we're in now would've been the only
reboot there ever would be. And I can symapthize with
Marvel wanting to be able to use their own mascot, so I
think the current reboot was a good thing. I'm just
afraid Sony's gonna pull a fast one and take him away from
Marvel again and do YET ANOTHER reboot.

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