Overview

• Judge Margaret Chan ruled in favor of Paramount on certain claims in the ongoing lawsuit with Warner Bros. Discovery over streaming rights to 'South Park'.
• Warner Bros. paid $500 million to Paramount in 2019 for the rights to stream the over-20-season back catalogue of 'South Park' episodes on HBO Max.
• Paramount later released 'South Park: Post Covid' and 'South Park: The Streaming Wars' exclusively on Paramount+, triggering the lawsuit.
• Warner Bros. is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars, alleging that Paramount caused it to overpay under the agreement.
• Chan dismissed Warner's claim that Paramount's conduct misled customers and created confusion over which streaming platform had rights to the animated series.