Japanese broadcaster Tokyo Broadcasting System has filed a lawsuit against ABC, charging that the summer hit "Wipeout" is "a blatant copycat" of its copyrighted obstacle course shows. Reality
series tend to draw lawsuits, but it's rare for a broadcast network to sue another broadcaster over a reality show.
TBS owns the competition series "Takeshi's Castle," and co-owns
the right to Spike TV's "MXC," which uses footage from "Castle." Among the charges are that ABC bought search terms such as "MXC" on Google to help drive traffic to the official "Wipeout" page, and
that specific obstacles in "Wipeout" were knock-offs of challenges in the Japanese shows.
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