The Satanic Temple sues Sabrina creators for $50 million

A $50m copyright lawsuit was filed by the Satanic Temple in New York.

A Satanic group has announced that it is taking legal action against Netflix’s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina over alleged copyright infringement. The Satanic Temple, a religious and political organisation based in Salem, Massachusetts, has accused the show of ripping off the design of its statue of the deity Baphomet. In Netflix’s reboot of the Archie Comics series, Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka) attends the Academy of Unseen Arts, a school for witches where Satan is worshipped. Lucien Greaves, a co-founder of the Satanic Temple who acts as the group’s spokesperson, used Twitter to criticise the design of the statue, which appears in multiple scenes of Sabrina. He accused the show of “appropriating” the group’s original Baphomet monument. “Yes, we are taking legal action regarding #Thechillingadventuresofsabrina appropriating our copyrighted monument design to promote their asinine Satanic Panic fiction,” Greaves tweeted. In a blog post, Greaves said the Satanic Temple isn’t claiming rights to the figure of Baphomet, but rather the specific layout of its monument. “We are claiming copyright infringement for their use of our unique Baphomet monument design in their show as a central icon for a cannibalistic cult,” he wrote. “We are not laying claim to Baphomet itself, but rather our original interpretation of Baphomet that has become a central icon to our organisation, much like a corporate logo.” ($1 = Dhs3.67)