It is believed that the Atresmedia group has violated the intellectual property rights of MC&F, holder of the copyright of the contest’s star test
A new judicial front once again hits the most watched match on Spanish television. The court of section 15 of the Provincial Court of Barcelona has sentenced Atresmedia this Thursday to suspend the broadcast of ‘El Rosco’, the last duel between the participants of ‘Pasapalabra’, for, according to the courts, infringement of the rights of intellectual owned by the production company MC&F Broadcasting Production and Distribution CV (MC&F), which owns the copyright of the format’s star test. In addition, it imposes on the communication group, which has the possibility of appeal, compensation for the damage caused and obliges it to publish the decision.
In this context, MC&F filed a lawsuit against Atresmedia accusing the defendant of infringing its intellectual property rights on the final test of the match presented by Roberto Leal on Antena 3. Subsequently, ITV Studios, which appeared in the case in its as the licensor of the rights to the program, and Atresmedia claimed that ownership of the copyright of ‘El Rosco’ was settled and resolved in 2016 by Section 28 of the Provincial Court of Madrid in a final judgment, which was later upheld by the Supreme Court three years later, leading to the immediate cancellation of the Telecinco space after Mediaset lost the court case with ITV over the contractual relationship that united them both with this format.
However, before the Court of Barcelona, the question about the intellectual property rights of ‘El Rosco’ in those two sentences was not finally resolved because MC&F, who is the one who claims the copyright of the final test, did not intervene in that process.
The court therefore indicated that the creators of ‘El Rosco’ came from Reto Luigi Pianta and René Mauricio Loeb, who transferred their rights to MC&F and this producer in turn gave permission to the Einstein company to record ‘El Rosco’ in the ‘Passaparola’ competition, the Italian edition of ‘Pasapalabra’ which came about on the basis of ITV’s license to Einstein for a second game known as ‘The Alphabet Game’ and which therefore gave rise to the Spanish version.
The sentence emphasizes that ‘El Rosco’ is an original creation of authors Reto Luigi Pianta and René Mauricio Loeb, protected by intellectual property law, whose rights correspond to MC&F. Consequently, the ruling states, “The exploitation of said work by Atresmedia, under an ITV license, constitutes an infringement of those rights.”
Source: La Verdad
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