Stephen King Secures Victory Over Dark Tower Copyright Lawsuit

Novelist Stephen King persuaded a federal appeals court Tuesday to uphold his victory over claims that the protagonist of King’s “magnum opus,” the Dark Tower series, was “substantially similar” to a comic book hero known as “The Rook.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a ruling by Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger, who tossed the copyright infringement case from the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida in 2019, granting summary judgment against Benjamin DuBay, nephew of The Rook’s creator.

The lawsuit also targeted King’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, and several media companies affiliated with ...