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

The Supreme Court has today confirmed the ruling that forces Atresmedia to stop broadcasting El Rosco, the famous final challenge of the game show Pasapalabra. Justice considers that the challenge constitutes a work protected by intellectual property, the ownership of which corresponds to the Dutch company MC&F and not to ITV, the producer that licenses the broadcast rights of the game show. 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 game show, but not to the challenge known as El Rosco. normally.

The program in dispute, copied from the Italian space Pasapalabra normally from 2022 until now.

The program in dispute, a copy of the Italian show Passaparola, premiered 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 dispute with that production company. After its victory in the courts, ITV assigned the rights to the program to Atresmedia, and Antena 3 broadcast it again on May 13 of last year, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.