Peter Jackson Sues New Line over Video Game Licensing

March 3, 2005 at 5:32 pm - by Dale Dietrich

Categories: Licensed Game Cases, Royalty Disputes

Jackson makes 19 allegations, among them that New Line improperly deducted costs relating to home video, used the wrong royalty rate to compute DVD sales, charged too much for subdistribution, did not pay for use of the film’s script and a song lyric written by Ms Walsh in an accompanying video game and incorrectly valued their cut from merchandise sales.