Josep Maria Mainat and Toni Cruz, creators of the talent show Operación Triunfo, sue Eufòria (Veranda TV) and the CCMA for plagiarism. They consider that "Eufòria reproduces, with minute variations, all the essential elements, mechanics, phases and original aspects of OT" and recall that they exported the format to more than seventy channels. The dispute will be between format and genre. John de Mol also created The Voice, a format of the same genre, among others, both solo and with Joop Van den Ende, with whom he founded Endemol. The mighty rivers of Gestmusic and Endemol converged in 1994, full of loaves and bigwigs that would gradually occupy the shareholding. Companies can emancipate themselves from their founders (just remember the Llongueras case), but the authors maintain intellectual property rights.
TV shows are artifacts of complex authorship. The judge must establish if OT and EUOIA are dialects of the same language (the format language) or if they only share gender (the talent family). On TV genders become trans. For example, the reality show (Big Brother) transitions towards cooking (MasterChef), adventure (Survivor) or falling in love (First Dates) to create transgender formats that are exported, more or less transformed, to many televisions. Trans/forming them means starting from the original format (and you have to pay), but it is not as easy to demonstrate as in the case of songs or plays.
In this case, the only equation (EUAIO) quixotic (UIOEA) is given that allows it to be calculated with milonguera (IOUEA) euphoria (EUOIA) byelorussian (IEOUA): the plagiarism claim option is directly proportional to the audience of the claimable program, and Euphoria has a large audience. That is why a judge must decide if the euphoric have otitis or not.
