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About 10 years ago there was a widely publicized case of a small town policitician in the US, who had posted a nutty campaign video to his own website, and whic
by nisse72 8y ago
About 10 years ago there was a widely publicized case of a small town policitician in the US, who had posted a nutty campaign video to his own website, and which later got picked up by a TV program (like AFV or somesuch). He thought it was great that his video was on TV, so he posted a video of it being shown on the program, something like 5 seconds of their introduction followed by 60 seconds of his own material.
The TV network promptly sued him for infringing their copyright, and (I believe) lost. There would have been a fair amount of backlash as well.
Unfortunately I cannot remember the names or places involved, so I'm getting nowhere with Google. Perhaps someone else will recognize this description and chime in.
- dmurray 8y agoThat sounds like a textbook example of fair use: a small excerpt for the purpose of reporting. Interested to hear if you do have the details.
- nisse72 8y agoI found the story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Knight_(filmmaker) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Knight_(filmmaker) http://www.dmlp.org/threats/viacom-v-knight http://www.dmlp.org/threats/viacom-v-knight
- dmurray 8y agoThanks. Tldr: he pointed out it was fair use and they dropped their DMCA claim.