{"id":66,"date":"2023-02-25T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wursthausdtsa.com\/warner-bros-discovery-sues-paramount-global-over-south-park-streaming-rights-dispute\/"},"modified":"2023-02-25T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T15:02:07","slug":"warner-bros-discovery-sues-paramount-global-over-south-park-streaming-rights-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wursthausdtsa.com\/warner-bros-discovery-sues-paramount-global-over-south-park-streaming-rights-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Paramount Global Over \u201cSouth Park\u201d Streaming Rights Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"

War[0]<\/a><\/sup> Discovery Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Paramount Global for breach of contract on the streaming rights for the long-running Comedy Central series \u201cSouth Park.\u201d The lawsuit, filed in the New York State Supreme Court, alleges that Paramount has been \u201cstealing content\u201d by diverting resources away from regular episodes and characterizing new content as \u201cmovies,\u201d \u201cfilms,\u201d or \u201cevents\u201d in order to avoid the $500 million licensing agreement that HBO Max had with Paramount in 2019.<\/p>\n

The agreement granted HBO Max exclusive access to the entire 300-episode \u201cSouth Park\u201d catalog and three seasons of 10 episodes each.[1]<\/a><\/sup> The lawsuit claims that Paramount has only delivered 16 episodes as of February 2021, and that a separate $900 million deal with \u201cSouth Park\u201d creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for 14 special episodes, including so-called \u201csuper size\u201d episodes, were created exclusively for Paramount+ \u2014 making a total of 30 episodes.[2]<\/a><\/sup> War[0]<\/a><\/sup> Discovery is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for \u201cbreach of contract, fraud, and other misconduct\u201d and for Paramount to be enjoined from further streaming the \u201cSouth Park\u201d special content on its own platform.<\/p>\n

Paramount denies the allegations by War[0]<\/a><\/sup> and has accused War[0]<\/a><\/sup> of not paying the license fees it owes under the agreement. A spokesperson for Paramount Global said in a statement that \u201cwe believe these claims are without merit and look forward to demonstrating so through the legal process.\u201d[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\u201cSouth Park\u201d has been a staple of Comedy Central cable channel for more than 25 years and the show has remained a ratings staple and audience favorite in the animated space, earning 18 Emmy nominations and winning five.[5]<\/a><\/sup> The show has achieved a cult status and its creators have become billionaires due to their savvy deal-making. HBO Max had hoped to leverage the \u201cSouth Park\u201d content to build its streaming platform, but Paramount\u2019s move to create exclusive content for its own platform has put the two media giants at odds.<\/p>\n

0. <\/span>“South Park $500M Streaming Rights Prompts Lawsuit Between WBD & Paramount” Screen Rant, 24 Feb. 2023, https:\/\/screenrant.com\/south-park-lawsuit-streaming-rights-warner-bros-paramount\/<\/a><\/p>\n

1. <\/span>“HBO Max Targets Paramount in \u201cSouth Park\u201d Lawsuit” TipRanks, 24 Feb. 2023, https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/news\/hbo-max-targets-paramount-in-south-park-lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n

2. <\/span>“Warner Bros. Discovery Files ‘South Park' Content Licensing Lawsuit Against Paramount” Media Play News, 25 Feb. 2023, https:\/\/www.mediaplaynews.com\/warner-bros-discovery-files-south-park-content-licensing-lawsuit-against-paramount\/<\/a><\/p>\n

3. <\/span>“Ugly battle over $500m South Park deal” news.com.au, 25 Feb. 2023, https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/entertainment\/tv\/streaming\/lawsuit-over-500-million-south-park-deal\/news-story\/88e5ae894fe4c4d29a68d1e57ffce7c9<\/a><\/p>\n

4. <\/span>“Warner Bros. Discovery Files Lawsuit Against Paramount Global over ‘South Park' Licensing Dispute” Animation Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023, https:\/\/www.animationmagazine.net\/2023\/02\/warner-bros-discovery-files-lawsuit-against-paramount-global-over-south-park-licensing-dispute\/<\/a><\/p>\n

5. <\/span>“\u2018South Park\u2019 Lawsuit: Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Paramount Global Over Licensing Dispute” Variety, 24 Feb. 2023, https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/tv\/news\/south-park-lawsuit-hbo-max-sues-paramount-1235534780\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

War[0] Discovery Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Paramount Global for breach of contract on the streaming rights for the long-running Comedy Central series \u201cSouth Park.\u201d The lawsuit, filed in the New York State Supreme Court, alleges that Paramount has been \u201cstealing content\u201d by diverting resources away from regular episodes and characterizing new content as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wursthausdtsa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wursthausdtsa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wursthausdtsa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wursthausdtsa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wursthausdtsa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wursthausdtsa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wursthausdtsa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wursthausdtsa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wursthausdtsa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wursthausdtsa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}