District Court Upholds Fair Use in Savage/CAIR case
Clipped from Citizen Media Law Project blog, July 28, 2008:
"In a huge victory for freedom of speech, on Friday a federal district court in California dismissed conservative talk show host Michael Savage’s lawsuit against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The decision reaffirms that using limited portions of someone’s copyrighted work for purposes of criticizing that work generally falls within copyright law’s fair use exception."
Click here to read more.
And check out the excellent new California Legal Guide — learn what you need to know about copyright, protected speech, and other legal issues for media makers.
"In a huge victory for freedom of speech, on Friday a federal district court in California dismissed conservative talk show host Michael Savage’s lawsuit against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The decision reaffirms that using limited portions of someone’s copyrighted work for purposes of criticizing that work generally falls within copyright law’s fair use exception."
Click here to read more.
And check out the excellent new California Legal Guide — learn what you need to know about copyright, protected speech, and other legal issues for media makers.
posted by Marie Drennan at
8/04/2008 01:06:00 PM
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