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Candidates and copyright

Published by Jeff Jarvis August 23rd, 2007 Tags: , .

James Kotecki points out that most of the presidential campaigns are violating copyright when they put clips of their interviews from cable and network shows up on YouTube — and he hopes that this forces them to reexamine copyright laws. He also likes that the networks are setting a precedent in not going after the campaigns’ useage. I’m not so sure it’s a violation but a defensible use of fair comment but I agree with James in any case.

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  1. 1 James Kotecki Aug 23rd, 2007 at 10:20 am

    Thanks for posting this - is there a definitive answer out there on whether it’s fair use?

    I based my assumption that it’s not on two factors:

    1) The networks having to explicitly make their debate footage available to bloggers - implying that it otherwise wouldn’t be.

    2) A network news producer once told me “You didn’t hear this from me, but you should upload your appearances on our channel to YouTube.” She was implying, I thought, that even if I were just taking a clip of my own interview, I would be doing something that, in the very least, CNN didn’t like.

    So, I have my hunches but no clear answer.

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