September 09, 2022
Miramax has settled its copyright suit against filmmaker Quentin Tarantino over his plan to auction off exclusive scenes from the movie "Pulp Fiction" as non-fungible tokens.
August 09, 2022
Miramax and Quentin Tarantino are close to resolving their dispute over Tarantino's efforts to auction off scenes from the "Pulp Fiction" film and screenplay as non-fungible tokens, the parties have told a California federal court.
July 14, 2022
A federal judge in Los Angeles next week will hear lawyers for director Quentin Tarantino argue that a non-fungible token that recently sold for more than $1 million was based on his own handwritten screenplay for "Pulp Fiction" and doesn't belong to the movie studio that owns the copyright on his hit 1994 movie. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
July 01, 2022
Miramax owns the rights to both the "Pulp Fiction" film and screenplay, the studio said in California court Thursday, arguing that Quentin Tarantino cannot auction off exclusive scenes from the film as non-fungible tokens and urging the court to reject the filmmaker's attempt to get its copyright suit axed.
June 22, 2022
Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has urged a California federal judge to boot Miramax's copyright suit over exclusive "Pulp Fiction" scenes that he planned to auction off as nonfungible tokens, arguing that the studio has rights to the film but not his handwritten screenplay.
April 07, 2022
The company behind Norton's AntiVirus brand of malware detection software has armed itself with some new BigLaw guns to defend against a nearly decade-old patent lawsuit that claims some of that software was actually developed by professors at Columbia University. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters facing the court in the coming week.
January 05, 2022
Quentin Tarantino is moving forward with his planned sales of nonfungible tokens attached to parts of a handwritten screenplay for his 1994 hit movie "Pulp Fiction" amid a legal battle with his former movie studio, Miramax.
January 03, 2022
A U.S. Supreme Court fight involving fast-fashion giant H&M over when copyright registrations should be invalidated due to errors and a fair use battle over Andy Warhol's Prince portraits are just some of the major copyright cases to look out for this year. Here are the cases you need to watch in 2022.
December 10, 2021
Quentin Tarantino has taken shots at his former movie studio, which is suing him, asserting that Miramax LLC has no right to use copyright law or old contracts to stop him from selling nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, attached to parts of a handwritten screenplay for his 1994 hit movie "Pulp Fiction," while also claiming the studio is "a shell of its former self."
November 16, 2021
Quentin Tarantino's plans to auction off "exclusive scenes" from the movie "Pulp Fiction" in the form of nonfungible tokens drew a copyright and trademark lawsuit Tuesday from Miramax, his former studio, which claims that those rights belong to it.