Miramax Just Won an Interesting ‘Pulp Fiction’ Battle

Quentin Tarantino & Pulp Fiction
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Matthew Belloni
November 29, 2021

As I argued last week, I’m skeptical about Miramax C.E.O. Bill Block’s recent lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino over Pulp Fiction NFTs. Two law professors now agree with me, writing that “it looks to us like Tarantino is acting within his reserved rights to publish the screenplay (or portions of it).” But Block has another reason to celebrate with his lawyers. He just won an entirely different Pulp Fiction lawsuit, this one brought by celebrity photographer Firooz Zahedi over the famous poster image of Uma Thurman lying on a bed with a gun, a cigarette and a pulpy novel.