In a recent suit filed against Netflix and Warner Bros. at the
US District Court of New York, the Plaintiff, the Satanic Temple
group, has claimed damages to the tune of $50 Million over an
alleged copyright and trademark violation. The entire issue
revolves around the statue of a historical deity called the
'Baphomet' which is depicted as a human body having a
goat's head, as shown in the figure below:
Netflix and Warner Bros. have recently produced a series and the
same is currently being aired on Netflix by the name
'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina'. It is alleged by
The Satanic Temple group that the sculpture of the Baphomet is
depicted time and again in nearly 4 out of 10 episodes of the
series. Further, the group claims that, the sculpture in the series
has been depicted in a negative light by associating it to death,
evil, cannibalism and such other negative connotations, whereas in
reality, the sculpture was created "to promote First Amendment
values of
