Technology is starting to play a bigger role in Hollywood.
We’ve seen bitcoin tokens exchanged to fund projects, CGI characters are starting to look more and more realistic, and it seems like everyone with an ounce of fame is selling NFTs. Unfortunately, some filmmakers, like Quentin Tarantino, have learned that their work isn’t theirs to profit from since the introduction of these new technologies in the industry.
Early in November 2021, Tarantino announced his plans to auction off seven uncut scenes from Pulp Fiction as NFTs. Miramax then claimed that the director only owned rights to the original screenplay and not the intellectual property, arguing that reproducing copies of his original script is outside of Tarantino’s rights.
To put it in layman’s terms, Miramax told Tarantino that he owned bragging rights to the film Pulp Fiction. With the court case in the federal court in Los Angeles, many studio executives and filmmakers are watching, wondering who has the rights to what as more and more technology is introduced.
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
