![]() And he alone can seek legal redress as he has done here. As he said, he owns the fucking thing, and therefore, if a website conveniently plays up an anonymous web address which Gawker readers were encouraged to use so they could “help themselves” to Tarantino’s copyrighted work, Tarantino and only Tarantino can decide whether or not he is incensed. Seems to me that what Gawker is dismissing is the fact that this is Quentin Tarantino’s intellectual property creation. When he is shooting his film and sees the final draft of the script online, he in the past has not been upset and likes that people seek it out. What the filmmaker told me was that he is not a hypocrite. Gawker is trying to let itself off the hook by taking Tarantino completely out of context. I like the fact that people like my shit, and that they go out of their way to find it and read it.” Frankly, I wouldn’t want it any other way. This is what he told Deadline, in the course of complaining about the then-small-scale leak to some unknown number of reporters and Hollywood types: “I do like the fact that everyone eventually posts it, gets it and reviews it on the net. More from Cook: “ Quentin Tarantino wanted The Hateful Eight to be published on the internet. In addition, the piece was published because Tarantino wanted the town to know he had changed plans on his next movie, hurt by what he considered a betrayal by a handful of people he gave a first script draft to. The document that Gawker gleefully cites and invites its readers to help themselves to is nothing close to a finished version. Why would I read a work that made Tarantino, the copyright holder, angry? It was a first draft, and his process is to show that work to select actors, get feedback and dig back in and do a draft that is closer to what he will shoot. I did not obtain and still have not obtained The Hateful Eight. Tarantino Shelves ‘Hateful Eight’ After Betrayal Results In Script LeakĬook is wrong. Tarantino’s ‘Hateful Eight’ Script Hits The Web It was Tarantino himself who turned his script into a news story, one that garnered him a great deal of attention.” Tarantino’s very public complaints about the leak-which named the six parties (of varying degrees of celebrity and potential culpability) that he believes had access to it-were picked up and amplified afterward by dozens of news sites, including Defamer. Writes Cook: “Last week-before the publication of the script online but after it had begun circulating in Hollywood-Tarantino loudly turned The Hateful Eight leak into a topic of intense news interest by speaking about it at length to Deadline Hollywood, which had itself obtained a copy. ![]() Since writer John Cook invokes the original story by Deadline Hollywood in two places, I’d like to shed a little context to where Cook has gone wrong in a reply that seems to excuse Gawker’s brazen and cavalier behavior by lumping us into the mix. UPDATE, 4:14 PM: Gawker has responded to Quentin Tarantino‘s legal complaint (read it here) on its website.
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