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Executive Producers’ “Most Favored Nations” Clauses Could Be Applied to Walking Dead Series Producer’s Profit-Participation Settlement  

Can the settlement of a lawsuit by one profit participant in a TV production be used to increase the contingent compensation provisions of other profit participants in the show?

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Can the settlement of a lawsuit by one profit participant in a TV production be used to increase the contingent compensation provisions of other profit participants in the show? The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California recently ruled it could, in a lawsuit brought by writer Robert Kirkman and several other executive producers of the massively successful, zombie-apocalypse TV series The Walking Dead. Kirkman v. AMC Film Holdings LLC, 2.:22-cv-09101.

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