Disney is suing Sling TV over its new streaming passes that offer you entry to stay cable networks for as little as sooner or later. The lawsuit, filed below seal, claims Sling violated the phrases of its licensing settlement with Disney and included its networks within the short-term packages with out permission, according to a report from Deadline.
The Dish-owned Sling TV announced one-day, one-weekend, and one-week streaming passes earlier this month, which begin at $5 and allow you to watch content material on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, Disney Channel, and different networks for a brief time period. Sling TV is positioning the passes as a means for folks to catch one-off sporting occasions or award exhibits with out getting locked right into a subscription to cable or expensive stay TV streaming companies.
As reported by Variety, Disney alleges the streaming passes go towards its present licensing settlement, which states that Sling TV and Dish should present subscribers with entry to its content material by month-to-month subscriptions. “Sling TV’s new choices, which they made out there with out our data or consent, violate the phrases of our current license settlement,” a Disney spokesperson stated in a press release to Deadline. Disney has requested Sling TV to take away its channels from the streaming passes.
In a press release to Deadline, Sling TV calls Disney’s lawsuit “meritless” and says that it’ll “vigorously defend our proper to carry clients a viewing expertise that matches their lives, on their schedule and on their phrases.” Neither Sling TV nor Disney instantly responded to The Verge’s request for remark.