Jared Leto to Appeal TMZ Lawsuit Decision Over Taylor Swift Diss Video
Actor calls the use of “antiquated laws to find loopholes that hurt, shame and slander people” not just a legal issue, it is a moral...
On Saturday, the day after a judge granted summary judgment to TMZ in a lawsuit Leto brought against the website, the “Suicide Squad” star vowed to appeal the decision.
Leto filed a copyright infringement suit against TMZ in December, claiming that a video it published, in which Leto said that he didn’t “give a f–k” about Taylor Swift, claiming that it had published an “unauthorized or stolen copy” of the video, and that the video was “private and confidential and not meant to be publicly released.”
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Neither myself, nor the employee in question, have any confusion around the issue at hand – he was an employee who was hired to work for us and the footage he shot in the privacy of my home studio was owned by me.
Using antiquated laws to find loopholes that hurt, shame and slander people in the name of ‘news’ isn’t just a legal issue, it is a moral one.
“Ignoring the sworn testimony that both the videographer and I understood and agreed that I owned the footage, the decision rewards TMZ for their duplicity and further encourages them to publish materials they know to be stolen,” Leto said.
In a lengthy statement accompanying the lawsuit, Leto said that he filed the suit in hopes of encouraging “more people to stop trafficking in stolen goods.”