The legal dispute between the family of Vicente Fernández and Televisa for the airing of the artist’s bioseries continues to generate controversy and, everything indicates, it will end in the Mexican justice system.
In a post on Instagram published in the early hours of this Wednesday, March 16, Vicente Fernández’s family warns the most important media holding company in Mexico that Chente’s series will bring him problems. “Each act of contempt will have legal consequences,” he tells her in a public communication signed by the Del Toro Carazo law firm.
Before, Televisa said it had not received any notification regarding a ban linked to the premiere of the bioseries.
Fernández’s family, on the Instagram account, denies Televisa and says that he committed contempt by “illegally” airing the first episode of “The Last King: The Son of the People.”
The artist’s bioseries is broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas, owned by Televisa.
“Televisa has decided to violate the measures that were imposed on it, defying the federal authorities, each act of contempt will have legal consequences,” expressly says the text of the publication on Instagram that failed to prevent the transmission of the second episode of the series.
The Vicente Fernández series and the controversial broadcast of Televisa
“I am very sad about everything that is happening, Vicente is gone, but I think there are people abusing his name,” said days ago “Doña Cuquita”, the wife of the deceased singer in relation to the television station’s decision not to give go back with the series.
According to the Fernández family, Televisa makes an unauthorized use for profit of the registered trademark, the reservation of artistic name for exclusive use and of Chente’s image.
The bioseries is based on the unauthorized biography of Argentine journalist and writer Olga Wornat, edited at the end of 2021.
In January 2022, Televisa announced that it had bought the rights to Wornat’s book for the bioseries that is now generating controversy.
Televisa has already broadcast two episodes of the program and, in addition to saying that it was not notified of any legal prohibition, denounced censorship of those who did not want the series to be released.
Wornat has written, among others, biographies of former Argentine president Carlos Menem, Marta Sahagún de Fox, wife of Vicente Fox, and Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, as well as that of the singer Vicente Fernández.
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