NEW YORK, USA – Paramount Global has filed a countersuit against Warner Bros Discovery Inc over the rights to streamIn a Wednesday night filing in a New York state court in Manhattan, , and hundreds of millions of dollars that Warner still owes.
It wants a judge to order Warner to pay those fees, plus the payments missed in December 2022 and March 2023. Warner’s “wholesale refusal to pay for any of the ‘South Park’ content it admits it has received and is continuing to exploit constitutes a clear and knowing breach of its obligations,” Paramount said.
In a statement on Thursday, Warner said Paramount “embarked on a multi-year scheme of unfair trade practices and deception, flagrantly and repeatedly breaching our contract, which clearly gave HBO Max exclusive streaming rights to the existing library and new content from [South Park].”The case is WarnerMedia Direct LLC v Paramount Global et al, New York State Supreme Court, New York County, No. 651001/2023.