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Double Jeopardy! CBS Hits Back At Sony In Game Show Profits & Rights Battle
CBS Hits Back At Sony In 'Jeopardy!' Profits & Rights Legal Battle
Worth noting too that CBS in its first response to Sony’s October 31 suit cited the “billions of dollars of revenue” its long standing deals over Wheel and Jeopardy! “Needless to say, CBS is disappointed by Sony’s decision to turn its back on the Parties’ longstanding relationship, to attempt to renounce the decades’ worth of efforts that CBS has invested into distributing and arranging for the distribution of the Series, and to attempt and escape the bargain it willingly made,” proclaims the cross-complaint filed today in LA Superior Court. “CBS’s failures and pattern of financially self-interested behavior — which at bottom come down to putting its own business interests over its contractual obligations to Sony Pictures — are straightforward breaches of the agreements’ express best-efforts clauses and the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing,” the 19-page jury seeking complaint that kicked off this court battle said last month.
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