Why spider-man went to jail.

• Position: Mexico - Law on counterfeit pinatas in Mexico - Brief article

Spider-Man has fought off many villains over the years, but even he wouldn't have been a match for Mexico's federal police. In a crackdown on pirated pinatas in June, authorities in Mexico City seized thousands of them and took into custody several vendors who were selling pinatas modeled on characters like Hulk and Spider-Man, or Hombre Arana, as he's known locally. U.S.-based Marvel Entertainment owns the copyright to those and other superhero characters, so reproducing their likenesses without paying royalties to the company is illegal. A pinata is a hollow paper sculpture filled with candy and hung from a rope; blindfolded partygoers take turns trying to break it open with a stick. Pinatas were brought to the...