Showing posts with label injury to business reputation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label injury to business reputation. Show all posts

Saturday, November 10, 2018

Satanic Temple Sues Over Goat-Headed Statue in ‘Sabrina’ Series; The New York Times, November 9, 2018

Julia Jacobs, The New York Times; Satanic Temple Sues Over Goat-Headed Statue in ‘Sabrina’ Series

"The Satanic Temple filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Warner Bros. and Netflix, alleging copyright violation of its goat-headed statue, which it says appears in the new “Sabrina” series.

The temple objected to the use of the statue’s likeness in the “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” which features a much darker portrayal of the teenage half-human, half-witch immortalized decades ago in Archie comics.

In the lawsuit, filed in United States District Court in Manhattan, the plaintiffs ask for at least $50 million for each alleged infraction: copyright infringement, trademark violation and injury to the business’ reputation. They also request an injunction barring the companies from redistributing the series with the image of the statue. The temple argues that the television show not only copied its conception of the deity — a muscled figure with two young children staring up at it — but also that it gives the statue and the Satanic Temple itself a bad rap."