C-SPAN Wins Judgment Against Candidate.(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, November, 2000 by GIBBONS, KENT

A federal judge in St. Louis last week barred a political candidate from unauthorized use of C-SPAN video in campaign ads and on a campaign Web site.

C-SPAN called the ruling an important legal precedent that supports its policy of not allowing political candidates to use its intellectual property in a partisan campaign.

The candidate, though, claimed the ad's lifting of C-SPAN footage fell under fair-use provisions of copyright law, and his campaign apparently plans to appeal.

As of last Thursday, C-SPAN had been notified that William J. Federer, a Republican candidate for the House of Representatives in Missouri, had asked the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the ruling and that information on the matter was being forwarded...

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