Tarantino is also looking to buttress the contributory claim by among other things, speaking how it “publicly solicited its purported 47 million monthly United States readers to infringe Tarantino’s copyright, asking and inducing anyone to leak and provide Gawker with an unauthorized infringing copy of the Screenplay.”
The amended lawsuit also says that the director sent a takedown notice pursuant to the DMCA, and that after the script was taken off its original location at AnonFiles, that Gawker pointed elsewhere.
“On January 26, 2014, after a Gawker reader and third-party infringer had downloaded a copy of the Screenplay which originated from the AnonFiles Screenplay Download URL (prior to the page being disabled) and thereafter uploaded a PDF copy to the website Scribd.com, Gawker amended and updated its January 23rd Article, writing: ‘the script has been made public online here and here,’ to add the text ‘and here’ into its article — with the subsequent text ‘here’ an additional new URL click-through link directly to a subsequent replacement available copy of the complete Screenplay, hosted on the website Scribd.com.”
Gawker says it is still reviewing the latest legal papers.
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