{"id":4400,"date":"2014-03-13T10:09:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T14:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2014-03-13T10:09:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T14:09:22","slug":"gawker-wants-quentin-tarantino-lawsuit-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2014\/03\/13\/gawker-wants-quentin-tarantino-lawsuit-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Gawker Wants Quentin Tarantino Lawsuit Dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Quentin Tarantino G\" width=\"304\" src=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1gdFIY3\">Gawker is demanding that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1iEON40\">the lawsuit filed by\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Quentin Tarantino<\/strong><\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d claiming that Gawker violated copyright laws by\u00c2\u00a0posting a link to the leaked script to\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Hateful Eight \u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>be dismissed. According to <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>, Gawker is claiming that reading a script <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/Pl3DQh\">doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t qualify<\/a> as copyright infringement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert Penchina<\/strong>, Gawker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lawyer, is arguing that there is no proof that anyone who clicked the site\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s link to the read the Tarantino screenplay did anything wrong:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Here, the Complaint does no more than raise the possibility that some member of the public who accessed plaintiff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s script using Gawker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s link subsequently violated Tarantino\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rights by committing an infringement. Because plaintiff did not allege any facts showing that an infringing act actually was undertaken by a third party \u00e2\u20ac\u201d merely accessing the script by clicking on the link is legally insufficient \u00e2\u20ac\u201d plaintiff did not state a claim for contributory infringement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Penchina goes on to note that if there is no proof any Gawker readers \u00e2\u20ac\u0153actually saved or otherwise made a copy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d then there isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t anything of substance to Tarantino\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>New Career Opportunities Daily: The <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/nY3I6b\">best jobs in media<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>via FishbowlNY http:\/\/ift.tt\/1gdFIY9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gawker is demanding that the lawsuit filed by\u00c2\u00a0Quentin Tarantino \u00e2\u20ac\u201d claiming that Gawker violated copyright laws by\u00c2\u00a0posting a link to the leaked script to\u00c2\u00a0The Hateful Eight \u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0be dismissed. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gawker is claiming that reading a script doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t qualify as copyright infringement. Robert Penchina, Gawker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lawyer, is arguing that there is no &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2014\/03\/13\/gawker-wants-quentin-tarantino-lawsuit-dropped\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gawker Wants Quentin Tarantino Lawsuit Dropped&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1031,6,1032,1033],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-feedly","tag-ifttt","tag-recently-read","tag-saved-for-later"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-18Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}