Miramax filed a lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino, accusing him of breach of contract, copyright infringement and unfair competition. The studio responded to his plans to release a collection NFT inspired by the 1994 film “Pulp Fiction”, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
The director announced a collection of seven tokens. Each contains an uncut scene from the film and bonus content accessible only to the holder, including the original handwritten script pages, the author’s audio commentary and other details about the film and Tarantino himself.
Tarantino has been described as ‘seeking to cash in on the NFT boom’. Miramax sent him a notice of intellectual property rights infringement demanding that he drop the initiative.
The studio is convinced that under the 1993 agreement on commercialising the project Tarantino does not have such rights.
“This devalues the NFT rights to ‘Pulp Fiction’, which Miramax intends to maximise through a strategic and comprehensive approach. The studio […] will not allow Tarantino’s representatives to mislead others, believing that they have the authority to enter into similar deals in violation of the rights agreements they signed”, said spokesperson Bart Williams.
The director’s lawyer, in turn, noted that the ‘right to reproduce the screenplay’ gives Tarantino the ability to release NFTs.
Earlier in July, the creators of the new film with Anthony Hopkins announced their intention to sell it as non-fungible tokens.
In April, the director of “Dogma” Kevin Smith joined the NFT boom.
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