Warner Bros. has filed a suit against Innovative Artists Talent and Literary Agency, alleging that the agency had been placing awards screeners on their in-house Google Drive account, and thus allowing them to leak to file-sharing sites.
It is noted in the suit that Innovative Artists did cooperate with Warner Bros upon learning of the leak; shutting down the Google Drive account, which had only been active for a year, and providing user logs to the studio.
Warner Bros. called the Google Drive account “blatantly illegal” in the suit, claiming that this fact should have been obvious to the talent agency considering its clients’ livelihoods depend on copyright protection.
The suit claims that the talent agency would regularly rip DVD screeners intended for clients and upload them to a shared Google Drive account, which would then see the films distributed amongst people both inside and outside of the company; including managers, friends, and relatives.