Seven launches court action against Nine claiming Hotplate infringes on MKR copyright
The Seven Network has launched legal action against the Nine Network claiming its new reality cooking show The Hotplate infringes on the network’s copyright by too closely mirroring its My Kitchen Rules format.
The two TV networks will be in court on Tuesday with Seven seeking to have The Hotplate, which has been beating its new cooking/restaurant format Restaurant Revolution in the TV ratings, taken off-air and also potentially seeking damages.
“Channel Nine’s on-air promotions for its programme had a strange sense of deja vu,” said a Seven spokesman.
“We then saw it. We believe Nine has appropriated Seven’s My Kitchen Rules original format and related production elements, and contravened copyright. That’s why we’re in court.”
Austalian TV is so behind the times and constantly chasing it’s own tail. All shows are rehashes of other exiting formats, and both channels 7 and 9 simply copy each other, meaning neither channel has it’s personality, simply mimicking one another thus giving the public no choice on content.
And if the programs aren’t ripped of from other Aussie channels, then they’re ripped from the UK or the US.
Austalian TV is the least creative I’ve ever experienced anywhere in the world. It needs to grow up, and fast.
Channel 7 get a brain check. Yeah the shows are similiar. So is Home & Away similiar to Neighbours. Who follows who. Hot Plate is about restaurants that already exist. How many cooking shows are similiar.. a lot….
In order for Channel 7 to prove that their creative idea was stolen by Channel 9 they would first have to prove that they possessed a creative idea in the first place.
That’s gonna be a tough job for the lawyers.
” … claiming its new reality cooking show The Hotplate infringes … ”
“its new reality cooking show”? Its what? Well, I suppose you could be suggesting they are cooking reality. In any case, both parties deserve to lose this case for entertaining the ideas that either Iain some way original. Lawyers will be pleased and paid. They can spend the cash on avoiding The imagination and leadership-free zone that is Australian FTA TV.
@ hank.
+1.
You nailed it buddy.
Fta tv is about as original as rugby league players drinking too much, and as interesting as a fart.
They can sue each other until the last advertiser finally realises they are being charged up the bum for an audience that doesn’t exist