The Supreme Court confirms that Atresmedia cannot broadcast The Rosco from 'Pasapalabra'

The Supreme Court has today confirmed the sentence that obliges Atresmedia to stop broadcasting El Rosco, the famous final test of the contest Pasapalabra. Justice considers that the test constitutes a work protected by intellectual property whose ownership corresponds to the Dutch company MC&F and not to ITV, the producer that licenses the broadcast rights of the contest. The court also imposes compensation for moral damages of 50,000 euros to MC&F, considering that Atresmedia has infringed intellectual property rights.

Currently, Antena 3 broadcasts Pasapalabra thanks to an agreement with the British channel ITV, which is the one that holds the rights to the contest, but not to the test known as El Rosco. with all normality.

The program in dispute, copied from the Italian space Pasapalabra with all normality since 2022 until now.

The program in dispute, a copy of the Italian show Passaparola, landed on Spanish television in 2000: Antena 3 broadcast it until 2006, but a year later it moved to Telecinco. Pasapalabra was already the subject of a first legal dispute that was resolved in October 2019, when the Supreme Court obliged Telecinco to stop broadcasting the program after losing the lawsuit that the network had filed in 2010 against ITV, following a conflict with that production company. After its victory in the courts, ITV ceded the rights to the program to Atresmedia and Antena 3 resumed broadcasting it on May 13 of last year, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.