{"id":5759,"date":"2015-12-22T10:46:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T10:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/12\/22\/jared-leto-30-seconds-to-mars-talks-about-suing-the-gossip-media-tmz\/"},"modified":"2015-12-22T10:46:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T10:46:27","slug":"jared-leto-30-seconds-to-mars-talks-about-suing-the-gossip-media-tmz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/12\/22\/jared-leto-30-seconds-to-mars-talks-about-suing-the-gossip-media-tmz\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Leto (30 Seconds to Mars) talks about suing the gossip media TMZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/82\/Jared_Leto%2C_Anfiteatro_Camerini_%287%29.jpg\/220px-Jared_Leto%2C_Anfiteatro_Camerini_%287%29.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"213\" height=\"327\" \/><br \/>Jared Leto says TMZ was &#8220;legally and morally wrong&#8221; to post a video in  which he disrespects pop idol Taylor Swift, and he sued the gossip  website for copyright infringement. Leto, an actor and Thirty  Seconds to Mars frontman sued TMZ and Warner Bros. Entertainment in  Federal Court on Wednesday through his company Sisyphus Touring. He  claims TMZ released the footage though it knew the video was stolen.  <!--more-->  &#8220;Last  Sunday, I was alerted that TMZ had acquired personal and private video  footage of me in my home and that they were planning to leak it on their  site,&#8221; Leto wrote in a Dec. 10 post on his website. &#8220;My team notified  TMZ immediately that I fully owned the footage and that their source had  absolutely no rights to sell it. They chose to post it anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In  the video, Leto is shown in a recording studio listening to and  commenting on songs from Swift&#8217;s &#8220;1989&#8221; album. At the end of the footage  Leto states: &#8220;I mean, fuck her, I don&#8217;t give a fuck about her, it&#8217;s  whatever works best for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Leto walked back the statements on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The  truth is I think @TaylorSwift13 is amazing + an incredible example of  what&#8217;s possible. If I hurt her or her fans my sincerest apologies,&#8221; Leto  wrote.<\/p>\n<p>According to Leto&#8217;s complaint, the video was obtained  &#8220;through illicit means,&#8221; by Leto&#8217;s former videographer, who got $2,000  for it from TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>Leto says the videographer refused to sign a  document confirming ownership or rights, but TMZ posted it anyway at 1  a.m. on Dec. 7.<br \/>&#8220;Fifteen minutes after TMZ published the footage  they were informed by the videographer of the following: &#8216;do not post  the footage. I do not own it. I do not have permission.&#8217; Even after  receiving this written notice, TMZ continued to disseminate the  footage,&#8221; the 7-page lawsuit states.<\/p>\n<p>Leto posted on his website:  &#8220;Let&#8217;s be clear. This was stolen footage. This was an invasion of  privacy. And it was both legally and morally wrong.&#8221;<br \/>Leto said  he filed the lawsuit to &#8220;encourage more people to stop trafficking in  stolen goods, to follow proper legal procedure and so that it may  motivate additional consideration for the harm these acts can create,  especially when the only intention is to simply further the bottom line  for the companies and corporations that commit these acts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Leto  seeks disgorgement of profits, or alternatively actual and statutory  damages for copyright infringement, and profits, and a court order  impounding the footage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Source: Entertainment Law Digest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Leto says TMZ was &#8220;legally and morally wrong&#8221; to post a video in which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}