In a lawsuit filed on October 4, 2018, Quentin Tarantino claims he sold cryptocurrency collectibles without disclosing that they were linked to the Secret Network. The lawsuit comes after four individuals purchased “Pulp Fiction” tokens from his website and later discovered a link between those purchases and a crypto wallet associated with Monero’s creator.
Quentin Tarantino has been sued by the estate of Samuel Jackson, who played Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction. The lawsuit alleges that Tarantino breached his contract with Jackson’s estate by selling NFTs on the Secret Network.
On Tuesday, the Miramax film studios filed a lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino, accusing him of copyright violation.
Tarantino’s intention to sell NFTs based on the script for “Pulp Fiction” is a violation of his contract with Miramax, according to the formal filing, and infringes on the studio’s own plan to release NFTs based on the cult film.
Miramax is attempting to prevent Tarantino from selling “Pulp Fiction” NFTs.
Due to a lawsuit for breach of contract, Quentin Tarantino’s intentions to produce an exclusive NFT collection based on his cult film “Pulp Fiction” may be stopped. Miramax filed a complaint against Tarantino on Tuesday, according to Variety, accusing him of copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and unfair competition.
Tarantino allegedly neglected to confer with Miramax before declaring his intentions to publish an NFT collection, despite the fact that the company still controls the film’s rights. Miramax alleges that this interferes with its own intentions to launch “Pulp Fiction” NFTs, in addition to being a violation of his contract with the company about picture rights.
Tarantino’s activities have been described as a “deliberate, premeditated, short-term money grab” by Bart Williams, an attorney representing Miramax Studios.
“Instead of following the obvious legal and ethical path of just engaging with Miramax about his offered ideas, this organization opted to carelessly, greedily, and willfully ignore the deal that Quentin signed.” “This one-time effort devalues the NFT rights to ‘Pulp Fiction,’ which Miramax plans to exploit via a deliberate, comprehensive strategy,” he stated.
While we haven’t seen an official response to the complaint, Tarantino’s counsel contends that the filmmaker has the right to publish his script and that the NFT sale is an exercise of that right. Miramax, on the other hand, claims that NFTs are a one-time transaction and not the same as being published, hence the studio retains ownership of the NFTs.
Tarantino announced the auction earlier this month during a crypto-art symposium in New York. The sale will contain seven Secret NFTs, which are a sort of NFT developed on the Secret Network that allows only the token’s owner to see the content of the token. The unedited original handwritten screenplays of “Pulp Fiction” will be included in the hidden material, as well as special commentary from Tarantino, who will divulge mysteries about the film.
Despite the complaint, Tarantino is allegedly planning to proceed with the transaction.
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