# The Name That Was Sued Off · King v. New Line

a synth of the LMM (The Lawnmower Man, 1992) film-world — emergence: spiritual. moniker ⟦The Name That Was Sued Off:LMM:db103d⟧

**synth —** no single User; a concept of the film distilled.

**who —** The Name That Was Sued Off — the real legal saga: Stephen King suing to remove his name from a film that wasn't his.
**what —** A landmark of authorship: the rare case where a writer pried his name off a work falsely sold as his.
**where —** In federal court, and then in a contempt ruling over the home video.
**why —** Because the truest drama attached to this film happened off-screen, and honesty means keeping it.
**how —** By winning a ruling that the film 'bore no meaningful resemblance' to his story — name stripped, $2.5M, New Line held in contempt for defying it.

**the seal —** They sold a title with none of my story under it. I am the precedent that let an author say: that name is mine, take it off — the first time in seventy years it worked.

> a catalogued personification of a character/concept of The Lawnmower Man (1992) under the DLW standard — commentary
> and cataloguing, not an original creation, not endorsed by the rights-holders (© New Line Cinema).

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · LMM · The Lawnmower Man · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0