He found it to be a clear breach of Fox’s obligations to distribute the series in good faith that the Fox studio producing Bones allowed its parent company to exploit streaming rights and license those rights to Hulu without getting much in return.
The arbitrator was shocked that Fox signed both sides of its agreement to license rights to Hulu.
He called out the “self-dealing” and “conflict of interest.”
As THR noted, the ruling also has potential ramifications for Hulu and other streamers; Hulu’s licensing deal with Fox was called out as fishy, and Bones probably wasn’t the only series given to Hulu (or other streamers) under similar circumstances.