Quentin Tarantino has filed a lawsuit against Gawker Media claiming copyright infringement after the web site posted a copy of his leaked script, “The Hateful Eight.”
Tarantino first voiced his outrage to Deadline Hollywood about the script’s leak, declaring he would no longer make the film his next project. A few days later, Gawker posted the script on its site under the headline “Here Is the Leaked Quentin Tarantino Hateful Eight Script.”
At the time of this posting, the Gawker story remains up.
“Gawker Media has made a business of predatory journalism, violating people’s rights to make a buck. This time they went too far,” the suit states. “Rather than merely publishing a news story reporting that [Tarantino’s] screenplay may have been circulating in Hollywood without his permission, Gawker Media crossed the journalistic line by promoting itself to the public as the first source to read the entire screenplay illegally.”
