on june 6, 2006, the comic news site newsarama reported that red sonja, llc (which holds rights to the roy thomas version of the character, created in 1973) filed a lawsuit on four counts against paradox entertainment (which claims rights to red sonya as part of the howard library, though no renewal record for "the shadow of the vulture" exists) in us federal court in april 2006. the four counts are claims of copyright infringement, trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and unfair competition. the lawsuit was settled in january 2008, on the second day of the hearing, for a sum of $1 each. red sonja llc paid $1 to paradox for the rights to howard's red sonya and permission for the red sonja stories to continue being set in conan's hyborian age. paradox simultaneously paid $1 to red sonja llc for the exclusive print-publication rights for "the shadow of the vulture" now that one of the characters belongs to red sonja llc.