Update as of 11/08: The Satanic Temple has filed a $50 million copyright suit against Netflix and Warner Bros. that they publicly threatened at the end of October, Variety reports.

The lawsuit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in New York, and states that Netflix’s new series, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, has copied the organization’s design of the statue of Baphomet. The suit alleges that four episodes in the show feature the statue and that producers of the series are now profiting from their work.

In the lawsuit, the temple states that the statue was based on iconography from the 19th century, and was created in 2013 and 2014 for the organization itself. It outlines that multiple design elements of the statue were added to make it an “original expression” and therefore, subject to copyright.

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Source: IGN.com Update: Netflix, Warners Hit With Million Lawsuit Over Sabrina Satanic Temple