Walking Dead Creator Sued Over Royalties

Robert Kirkman, the comic book writer who helped create The Walking Dead TV series, is being sued by his collaborator who said he’s owed “as much as half the proceeds,” The Hollywood Reporter said yesterday.

Michael Anthony Moore, who was also a childhood friend of Kirkman, filed a suit yesterday against the writer that said he was “duped into assigning his interest in the material over to Kirkman.”

“Each of these works was prepared by (Moore) and Kirkman with the intention that their contributions be merged into inseparable or independent parts of a unitary whole,” a complaint quoted in the article stated. “(Moore) and Kirkman were thus joint authors and co-owners of the copyrights in these works.”

The claim comes from an agreement in 2005, where Moore said that Kirkman and his agents “devised a scheme to fraudulently induce him to assign his copyright interests over to Kirkman’s company.”

“Indeed, they have not issued a single statement or allowed access to their books and records in accordance with the reporting obligations of the agreement,” Moore’s complaint states.

You can read the full article over at the Hollywood Reporter. The Walking Dead’s upcoming season starts Feb. 12 on AMC.

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