The public television of our country, RTVEfaces a cross-border lawsuit coming from Italy, from a company called Reti Televisive Italiane, belonging to Mediaset. At the center of the controversy is the series Six Sisters.
RTVE has published a bidding document for the hiring of a law firm to defend it in Italy against this lawsuit. As indicated therein, in October-November 2021, RTI began relations with CRTVE for the acquisition of 260 episodes of the series six sisters for broadcast exclusively on the Canale 5 network in Italy starting in September 2022.
“They claim damages from CRTVE derived from breach of contract“says RTVE in the letter justifying the need to hire lawyers.
Although RTVE has legal services, they cannot take care of the case, since “the legal defense required by RTVE involves the personification and representation in Italy in addition to a specialized legal defense before the different Italian judicial bodies, there being no availability of own means to undertake the assignment.”
The budget available for this tender It was between 80,000 and 120,000 euros and all the law firms that have been presented, Italian, Gianni & Origoni, Nunziante Magroni, ADVANT Nctm, Carnelutti Law Firm, Ughi e Nunziante Studio Legale, Tonucci & Parners Studio Legale Associato and Studio Legale Sutti, They have chosen to ask for the maximum in their offers.
RTVE requires that whoever wins the competition have at least one lawyer with an “academic qualification that certifies the practice of law in Italy and with 4 years of experience in the specialty“, the television one.
Six Sisters is a period series set in Madrid, produced by Televisión Española in collaboration with Bambú Producciones and premiered in April 2015 and aired until 2017, with a total of 489 episodes.
