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Jun. 23, 2022
Tarantino says NFTs are based on Pulp Fiction screenplay
“At every turn, the parties bent over backwards to make clear that Mr. Tarantino was not assigning any rights in the screenplay to Miramax,” wrote David Nimmer of Irell & Manella, who represents the director.
Miramax cannot block Quentin Tarantino’s non-fungible tokens auction because it is based entirely on the “Pulp Fiction” screenplay which the studio does not own, argued the director’s attorneys asking for a federal lawsuit to be dismissed.
“Even if Miramax could cobble together facts sufficient to allege that the assignment of the copyrights in the film, under certain circumstances, would also transfer exclusive rights in the underlying sc...
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