Posted on 10/14/2008 4:28:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Syndicated talk host Michael Savage is being sued by a filmmaker over his demand that YouTube remove a video by the filmmaker criticizing Savage using excerpts from his show. Brave New Films alleges in the suit filed on Friday (10-10) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that use of the excerpts containing anti-Muslim rhetoric falls under "fair use."
Robert Greenwald, a documentary filmmaker, uploaded to YouTube a short video titled "Michael Savage Hates Muslims," criticizing comments Savage made on a broadcast in October, 2007. The video contains about a minute of audio excerpts in which Savage says, among other things, that Muslims should be deported "without due process," while urging listeners to confront Muslims in the "supermarket line."
Savage syndicator, Talk Radio Network, issued the cease & desist order to YouTube last month.
The lawsuit seeks a declaration that the video made fair use of the defendants' copyrighted material, as well as damages for misrepresentations the network allegedly made in the cease & desist notice.
A ruling last July dismissed similar infringement claims by Savage against a Muslim civil rights group used excerpts of his show to solicit donations.
Why would you put something on youtube and then want copyright protection? If you want to copyright a film find a different way to distribute it DUmmy!
More trouble for Savage.
How many tens of millions would kill to have his trouble?
Don’t bother counting.
Goes to show Savage LOVES to get into trouble just to promote his show.
Plus why is it that Mark Levin’s show’s thread gets more posts and views then Micheal Savage’s?
HA!
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