Warren Beatty free to pursue legal claim on Dick Tracy

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Actor Warren Beatty will be free to pursue his legal claim to the rights for Dick Tracy following a judge’s lifting of a stay that prevented him from suing Tribune Media.

Beatty bought rights to Dick Tracy from Tribune Media Services in 1985 and directed and starred in a 1990 Dick Tracy film. But Chicago-based Tribune has claimed the veteran American actor made no productive use of his rights for over a decade. The agreement meant that if true, the lack of use would revert the rights to Tribune which was the original publisher of the comic in the 1930s.

Now a federal bankruptcy judge in Delaware, Kevin Carey, has lifted the stay that kept Beatty from suing over movie and television rights to the much-loved detective character. Both parties will be able to pursue their claims as a result.

Beatty sued Tribune in a Californian court last November. He claimed he was in the course of producing a television special on Dick Tracy.

But the next month the beleaguered Tribune – hit by the newspaper industry decline – filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, freezing claims by creditors.

source: Splash News

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