Friday, May 29, 2009

164...My Mother Told Me To Always Ask Permission

And I am sure Prime Minister Steve's mom tried to get the same point across to her little boy.

"Tory ad uses clip from U.S. network; C-SPAN unhappy permission wasn't sought for material"
is the headline on A4 of the hard copy of the Ottawa Citizen today‏; in the article Glen McGregor writes that C-SPAN is none too happy that the Tories used a clip from their network in the attack ads against our next Prime Minister, Mikey I.

Paradoxically in the same article, C-SPAN vice president Bruce Collins "said the network never gave the Tories permission to use the clip, but he didn't see any point in pursuing a claim. "There's nothing legal to do with it, Collins said. "Given the way video is used throughout the world, with You Tube, it would be fruitless." Collins says he watched the ad and believes it falls within the fair-use provisions in copyright law because of the short length and subject matter. "It's the highest form of speech ... political speech," he said, adding there would be no economic loss to C-SPAN resulting from the ad."

Kind of like what I am doing here.

Momma tried, momma tried.

WFDS

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