Quentin Tarantino is allegedly suing Gawker Entertainment for leaking his ‘The Hateful Eight’ script online.
The Hollywood Reporter has stated that Tarantino is to sue Gawker Entertainment for releasing details on how to illegally download his The Hateful Eight script. The website even provided links to download or read online.
It was just last week when Tarantino announced that his screenplay had been leaked through either the agent of Michael Madsen or Bruce Dern and that he was so upset, that he had decided to shelve the project entirely.
“Gawker Media has made a business of predatory journalism, violating people’s rights to make a buck,” says Tarantino’s lawsuit. “This time they went too far. Rather than merely publishing a news story reporting that Plaintiff’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.”
“Their headline boasts… ‘Here,’ not someplace else, but ‘Here’ on the Gawker website. The article then contains multiple direct links for downloading the entire Screenplay through a conveniently anonymous URL by simply clicking button-links on the Gawker page, and brazenly encourages Gawker visitors to read the Screenplay illegally with the invitation to ‘Enjoy!’ it.”
This is not the first time that Gawker has been in trouble. They received lawsuits in regards to sextapes and book proposals.