"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."
