{"id":66998,"date":"2022-09-12T12:14:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T09:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=66998"},"modified":"2025-09-07T04:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T01:21:12","slug":"quentin-tarantino-settles-nft-lawsuit-with-miramax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/quentin-tarantino-settles-nft-lawsuit-with-miramax\/","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Tarantino settles NFT lawsuit with Miramax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director Quentin Tarantino and Miramax <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cacd.836944\/gov.uscourts.cacd.836944.41.0.pdf\">have agreed<\/a> to settle the lawsuit regarding the NFT collection based on the film &#8220;Pulp Fiction&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the agreement were promised to be disclosed within two weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We have agreed to put this matter behind us and look forward to working with each other on future projects, including potential NFTs,&#8221; according to a joint <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/09\/quentin-tarantino-lawsuit-pulp-fiction-nft-auction-miramax-letter-1234907552\/\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In November 2021, Tarantino announced <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/quentin-tarantino-to-release-nft-with-secret-inspired-by-pulp-fiction\">NFT auction<\/a> based on &#8220;Pulp Fiction&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The full collection contains seven tokens featuring chapters from the director&#8217;s original handwritten script and his exclusive audio commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Miramax <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/miramax-sues-quentin-tarantino-over-nft-based-on-pulp-fiction\">filed suit against Tarantino<\/a> accusing unfair competition, breach of contract, and copyright infringement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;OpenSea reportedly did not wish to aid or facilitate your willful copyright infringements,&#8221; Deadline quotes the lawyers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In January, for the first NFT titled <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/quentin-tarantino-sells-the-first-nft-from-his-collection-for-1-1-million\">Royale with Cheese<\/a> from Tarantino&#8217;s collection, the buyer paid $1.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Since April, the aggregate trading volume of collectible tokens has shown a steady decline. In August alone, the figure fell by nearly half from July \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nft-trading-volume-continued-to-fall-in-august\">to $369.53 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The NFT ecosystem Solana showed the opposite trend. In early September, the number of tokens issued <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/solana-nft-mint-volume-tops-300000-tokens\">reached a new all-time high<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Quentin Tarantino and Miramax have reached a settlement of the lawsuit regarding the NFT collection based on the film &#8216;Pulp Fiction&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1331,1621,1213],"class_list":["post-66998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-culture-and-art","tag-hollywood","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67000,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66998\/revisions\/67000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}