GOP Drops Pelosi Copyright Accusation

[Snellius]

Source: International Business Times

Republicans quickly retracted a news release that accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of violating copyrights of C-SPAN, the cable channel that televises House and Senate proceedings.

The GOP took Pelosi to task because her new blog used video of this week's Iraq war debate, but then backtracked Thursday after learning C-SPAN had no copyright for the footage.

The Republican Study Committee, a group of conservative House members, contended in an afternoon news release that Pelosi's Web log violated copyright and trademark law by pirating "for partisan purposes" clips of members speaking on the House floor.

"As of noon today, the speaker had posted at least 16 videos that are copyrighted C-SPAN material from the House floor," according to the release from RSC spokesman Brad Dayspring. He cited an unnamed C-SPAN employee responsible for answering copyright questions from congressional employees. Not so, said C-SPAN spokeswoman Jennifer Moire. The videos on Pelosi's blog, called The Gavel, came from the House chamber, where the footage is shot by cameras owned by Congress, not C-SPAN.

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20070216/pelosi-c-span.htm

[Fridays Child]

1. Slobbering hyenas.

[ck4829]

2. K&R

[tanyev]

3. Oh, now they're going to preen for that camera incessantly and flood

their own websites with clips of themselves.

[pscot]

4. I hope Speaker Pelosi

is keeping a list.

[frogmarch]

5. I wonder if Keith Olbermann knows

This needs to be publicized.

Slobbering hyenas is right. They make me sick.

K&R

[shraby]

6. Another case of the Pubics putting out info

without fact checking first, because once the accusations is out in the public's eye, it has a life of it's own. A disclaimer is never noticed...about like a retraction in the newspaper about an error the paper made...it's put on an inside page.

[BOSSHOG]

8. limbaugh and hannity and the lemmings

will be repeating this story for years.

The easiest job in the world, fact checker for a right wing dumbass with access to a microphone.

[BOSSHOG]

7. Back to the drawing board boys

Maybe its sexually stimulating to members of the rnc to get their asses kicked on a daily basis by a little old grandma.

[MethuenProgressive]

9. LIE WITH HEADLINES ----- apologize in small type on page 32

Republicon spokesman Brad Dayspring is a Karl Rove wannabe

[YDogg]

18. same old, same old

[stlsaxman]

10. "nyah-hah!"

[Kagemusha]

11. This was LBN back on Feb 16. Not today

Just pointing that out. The date's in the article quoted.

[liberalnurse]

14. That is correct.

I sense this will get moved.......

I'm curious as to why this got posted again 2 months later as LBN?????????????????:shrug:

[habitual]

12. isn't this old news?

16 February 2007?? just wonderin

[aquart]

13. They have to go petty. They got nuttin' on the big stuff.

Unfortunately for them, there's nothing petty about Pelosi.

Liking that lady more and more.

[Doctor_J]

15. I wish we had an organization to sue the GOP for something every day,

and another to blare about the lawsuits.

[NormanYorkstein]

16. Copyright violation - oh the horror!

this is the best they could come up with and they couldn't even get that right.

[hvn_nbr_2]

17. But don't Congressional proceedings belong to corporations?

Surely what happens on the floor of Congress couldn't belong to the people, could it? I mean, what about privatization? Surely that stuff must belong to a corporation. If C-SPAN doesn't own it, then Halliburton must, right?

[LiberalFighter]

19. Just for the record this is old news