C-SPAN won’t sue Harper over attack ads
p2pnet news view Politics | TV:- US public affairs network C-SPAN says it’s OK for Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives to use C-SPAN footage to slag Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff.
“C-SPAN’s corporate vice president and general counsel, Bruce Collins, said Canada’s Liberals called to alert him to the use of copyrighted footage of leader Michael Ignatieff in a Conservative attack ad,” says the Ottawa Citizen, going on Collins said he doesn’t believe it amounts to a copyright violation.
“The C-SPAN clip appears in one of the Tories’ ‘Just visiting’ attack ads currently playing on Canadian television,” says the story.
“In it, a younger-looking Ignatieff says to camera, ‘You have to decide what kind of America you want, right? You have to decide. It’s your country, just as much as it is mine’,” with the C-SPAN logo at the bottom right corner of the screen with the title of its program, Washington Journal, and the name of Ignatieff’s 2004 book, The Lesser Evil, keyed below him.
“There’s nothing legal to do with it,” Collins says.
“Given the way video is used throughout the world, with YouTube, it would be fruitless.”
Ottawa Citizen – C-SPAN won’t sue Tories over Ignatieff footage, May 28, 2009
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May 29th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Oh ya? What song is that playing in the background? Do I hear Prince???
May 29th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Rats