The direct copyright infringement claim is based on the argument that, in order to report that the screenplay is 146 pages long, the Gawker staff itself necessarily must have “illegally downloaded to [Gawker’s] computers an unauthorized infringing copy of the Screenplay.”
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Tarantino: Gawker Gulity of Direct Copyright Infringement for Posting Link to Script
Movie director Quentin Tarantino has amended a complaint that he filed against the news website Gawker to claim that by publishing a link to portions of the script for his movie "The Hateful Eight," the website committed not just contributory copyright infringement, but direct copyright infringement as well. So reports The Hollywood Reporter.
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