The US director Quentin Tarantino has failed in his case against the media company “Gawker”. The website had spread his script at a scheduled Western on the internet. Work on the film was then placed on ice Tarantino.

Star-director Quentin Tarantino has failed in his action for the dissemination of an unpublished screenplay. Tarantino had been unable to prove that the U.S. media company “Gawker” have directly infringed the copyright of the filmmaker, the competent judge of a California court.

” Gawker ” had reported on a blog, the script for the planned Western “The Hateful Eight” had been leaked . For this purpose, a link was posted on the site , which led to the portal AnonFiles.com among other things – there was the script for download.

Filmmakers Tarantino ( “Pulp Fiction “, ” Django Unchained ” ) had ” Gawker ” alleged in his complaint that it has launched and distributed the first draft of the script . That ” Gawker ” had encouraged the public to read the script – is nothing newsworthy or Journalistic ‘ll realize it was called in the application. For each of the copyright infringements of the Oscar winner demanded more than a million dollars.

” Gawker ” editor in chief John Cook denied that the website had committed copyright infringement . ” Gawker ” had nothing to do with the fact that the script was previously surfaced on the Internet , said Cook . You have made the 146- page document merely a wider audience , the company argued.

The judge in California has now found the application inadmissible . The producer and director could ” Gawker ” prove no direct copyright infringement. Tarantino has to revise his complaint until May 1, time and nachzureichen details .

Tarantino Leaking Script:A murder after another

That he would work on a Western, Tarantino had betrayed already the end of 2013 in the talk show of Jay Leno. According to a report by the industry magazine “Deadline.com” the Western “The Hateful Eight”, should read and be an homage to the classic Western “The Magnificent Seven” (1960).

After it was announced in January 2014 that the script had been published on the Internet , Tarantino had stopped work on the project. He was “very , very depressed ” was , Tarantino said in an interview with ” Deadline.com ” .

Obviously Tarantino has now , however, resumed work : On Easter Saturday, the director at the Ace Hotel Downtown is performed in Los Angeles. Together with actors such as Samuel L. Jackson and Kurt Russell , which is actually in “The Hateful Eight” should have been along, he read aloud from the leaked script. “The Hateful Eight” plays during a snow storm in a dry goods store . Two bounty hunters are included with a diverse society in the store. An unknown killer uses the impasse and kills a present after another.

Tarantino announced during the show , he was already working on a second and third draft of the Westerns . The conclusion he wanted to completely change , reports the website ” Deadline.com ” .

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