Will they go to court? That would be an interesting chance to reexamine the meaning of fair use. Stay tuned.
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Fox goes after Romney for "unfair use" of video clip
We wrote earlier about Fox TV issuing takedown notices to several Republican candidates who used clips from the last debate in their ads. The story gets more interesting now, since Fox has gone after Mitt Romney who had his lawyer reply that what he had done was fair use link here and here. Fox now counterclaims Romney's ad far exceeds fair use.
[Posted at 11/03/2007 06:40 PM by John Bennett on IP in the News 
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I posted earlier about Mitt Romney refusing to take down a video using some Fox footage of a GOP debate, arguing it was fair use. Fox said it wasn't but no one went to court. Mike Masnick picked the story up but argued link here, "Considering how little attention gets paid to copyright issues during presidential election cycles, this may be about as close as it gets." Nothing new on this front, but the post did elicit some interesting comments in which the concept of fair use got some going over, even if it wasn't always well informed. But getting it discussed is likely to get us ahead in the long run.
[Comment at 11/09/2007 07:08 PM by John Bennett]
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