Paramount must face some claims in a lawsuit from Warner Bros. Discovery accusing it of setting in motion a breach of a $500 million licensing deal for the exclusive rights to South Park.
After a pricey bidding war for new episodes of the massively popular show, Justice Margaret A. Chan of State Supreme Court in Manhattan said that Paramount may have “actively convinced” the joint venture it operates with the show’s creators to breach its contract with WBD, which wasn’t offered the opportunity to stream episodes labeled as “specials” that was considered outside the scope of the deal. Paramount may have “unjustly benefitted,” Chan said in a ruling issued on Tuesday, by getting to carry the content and “reap any advertisers, subscribers, and other profits resulting from streaming those episodes, all without going through the same bidding process as everyone else.”
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