‘The Walking Dead’ creator Robert Kirkman loses legal battle against network

‘The Walking Dead’ creator Robert Kirkman loses legal battle against network

By Tobi Akingbade

The Walking Dead attraction at Universal Studios. Credit: Getty

The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has lost a legal battle against AMC, who he first sued back in 2017.

According to Variety, the decision relates to a lawsuit that Kirkman filed three years ago along with producers Gale Anne Hurd, Glen Mazzara and David Alpert.

In a ruling yesterday (July 22), a Los Angeles judge declared that AMC was entitled to define “modified adjusted gross receipts” under the terms of its contracts with profit participants.

The lawsuit claimed that the network had short-changed profit participation stakes through self-dealing. This is another way of claiming that AMC didn’t pay a “fair” licence fee for the series because it was produced by its own in-house studio.

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