KERRY Packer’s Australian Consolidated Press has won the court battle against Pacific Publications over the rights to the event that celebrates Australian TV, the TV Week Logies.
The NSW Court of Appeal today dismissed an application by Pacific Publications, owned by the Seven network, to overturn a previous Supreme Court decision that ruled TV Week magazine was the Home of the Logies.
The three appeals court judges upheld the decision, made in November last year, that ACP's TV Week held publication rights to the glittering ceremony.
"The Logies had become an integral part of the publication and promotion of that particular magazine (TV Week)," the judges found.
ACP announced that it had acquired Pacific’s 50% interest in the TV Week joint venture for $60m in July 2002. The acquisition followed ACP exercising its option under the joint venture agreement.
However there was disagreement about whether the purchase included the rights to the Logies.
