Jared Leto Is Suing TMZ Over Taylor Swift



Jared Leto + Taylor Swift + TMZ + a shady videographer  + $2,000 + a lawsuit + a pretentious press statement.  Stay tuned for Serial Season 3.

Jared Leto, the Oscar-winning actor and frontman of the band Thirty Seconds to Mars, has lodged a notable new copyright lawsuit against TMZ  and parent company Warner Bros. Entertainment, alleging that the gossip site published a sensational video after being warned that it was stolen. The video in question features Leto and an engineer at a home studio critiquing various songs off of Taylor Swift’s “1989” album. Leto is shown as admiring Swift’s work, even going so far as exclaiming (perhaps jokingly) that he wanted to “steal” one of her finer moments of production work. But towards the end of the video, Leto becomes indifferent. “I mean, f— her,” he says. “I don’t give a f— about her.”

Same. Also, Leto a complaint filed in California federal court after the guy who shot the video, walked it over to TMZ when they promised him $2,000. Here’s Leto’s full statement:

“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. 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. Let’s be clear. This was stolen footage. This was an invasion of privacy. And it was both legally and morally wrong. Regardless of who we are, we should all be able to talk freely in the privacy of our own homes without the fear that our unfiltered thoughts or actions will get broadcast to the world. We have the right to privacy and security and when we don’t have protections in place to safeguard those things, we lose the freedom to speak loudly and clearly – right or wrong – about anything and everything we choose to. I have chosen to file this lawsuit not because I want to, but in hopes it will 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.”

Wow. Interesting points. Mmm hmm. Really? Intriguing. Yeah, anyway. Anybody listen to the first episode of Serial Season 2 yet? Bowe Bergdahl is kind of a dick, no?



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