Back and forth between Loft Produzioni and Le Iene on the case of the service dedicated to the Chico Forti affair, which the Italia 1 program announced it had to cancel «because whoever holds the rights to the broadcast Agreements and Disagreements he warned us, telling us to remove it from our site because, evidently, he didn’t agree to let us keep the segment in which Marco Travaglio talked about Chico Forti’s transfer to Italy”.
The back and forth between Loft and Le Iene
«Le Iene – underlines Loft Produzioni in a note, relaunched by the director of Fatto Quotidiano on social media – accuse Marco Travaglio of not wanting to make known what he had declared to Accordi e Disaccordi in the episode of Nove on 18 May on the Forti case (when the episode complete has been on the Discovery and TvLoft platforms since May 19th). If they had to remove excerpts of our program from their service it was because they had taken them without the necessary permissions. Without any formal request to Loft Produzioni – as also indicated to them by Warner Bros. Discovery – and without paying the usage rights for the broadcast on Italia 1 on May 21st which they will now, rightly, have to pay to us”. The Mediaset broadcast replied: «We at ‘Le Iene’ had asked for the rights to the ‘Accordi & Disaccordi’ program both from Warner Bros. Discovery (Canale Nove) and from Loft Produzioni (a company controlled by SEIF, which also publishes Il Fatto Daily’). Of course, in our opinion it wouldn’t even have been necessary to ask them because, to all intents and purposes, it was a clear exercise of the right to freedom of the press; but Mediaset, which is always more than attentive and scrupulous when it comes to rights, asked for them. The answer didn’t come, so we used 25 seconds of that document to make Marco Travaglio’s thoughts on the Chico Forti case known. Yesterday morning Loft Produzioni asked for 2,000 euros (which will obviously be paid) for that use, and warned us against keeping that video within our service published on the web. Today Travaglio replies that that content was already available on the web and that he did not intend to hide what he had declared on the Forti case. The truth is that in that passage Travaglio expresses himself demonstrating a superficial knowledge of the case.” For this reason, the program claims, «it is understandable that he is so saddened and attentive to the fact that that content had such a large audience. Should you wish to offer your audience an authoritative and complete vision on the issue, exceptionally, we make available to you and your production free of charge the testimony of Bradley Pike, Dale’s brother, who can answer Marco Travaglio’s question on what think of the family “of someone who died”, on Chico Forti’s transfer to Italy”.
Travaglio’s reply
«I don’t deal with television rights, clearly violated by Iene, who in fact will have to pay them to the production of Accordi e Disaccordi, certainly not to me. I know very well about the late and irrelevant declaration of Dale Pike’s brother – underlined Marco Travaglio – who does not represent the entire family of the poor victim barbarically murdered by Chico Forti, as established by the final sentence of American justice, confirmed by the guilty plea just signed by Forti himself and above all implemented into Italian law by the Court of Appeal of Trento on 17 April at the request of Forti’s own lawyers. So I reiterate in full what I declared on Accordi e Disaccordi about the pain of the victim’s family, without any “bitterness”: on my side there are the irrevocable sentences, on the side of Iene the ramblings and hoaxes for which that program is now the world record holder ».
