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24 February 2021CopyrightMuireann Bolger

Stephen King scores victory in ‘Dark Tower’ copyright case

In a win for Stephen King, a US federal appeals court upheld an earlier ruling that a character in his “Dark Tower” novels did not copy traits of a protagonist in a comic book series.

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