Dubay v. King is a case wherein the purported heir to the creator of the comic book The Rook from the 1960s and 70s sued Stephen King — and all of his publishers and movie producers — for alleged copyright infringement of The Rook through The Gunslinger series. The defendants made a motion for summary judgment in the Middle District of Florida.…
In a previous blog, I wrote about the case of DuBay v. King, in which the alleged heir of the rights to the comic book The Rook sued author Stephen King — and anyone who had ever been in the same room with him — for infringement. The case was dismissed on summary judgment after an analysis proved there…