{"id":156684,"date":"2010-01-08T20:50:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T01:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100108\/1446417680.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-08T20:50:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T01:50:49","slug":"fox-news-sued-for-copyright-infringement-complaint-mocks-murdochs-comments-on-stealing-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/156684","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Sued For Copyright Infringement; Complaint Mocks Murdoch’s Comments On ‘Stealing’ Content"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s always funny how those organizations that seem to be against the concept of fair use have it come back to bite them. You may remember, a few months ago, as part of his campaign against “aggregator” sites that “steal” from him, Murdoch commented that fair use would likely be barred in the courts<\/a> if properly challenged, suggesting he didn’t believe in fair use at all. We already noted the irony of this, given how many different aggregator sites<\/a> Murdoch owns as part of News Corp. Now those statements may also be causing a bit of a problem in court as well.<\/p>\n

A bunch of folks have been sending in the news that a former advisor to Michael Jackson who apparently holds the copyright on certain interview footage is suing Fox News over airing parts of the interview recently<\/a>. In response Fox has claimed “fair use,” over the use in a news program — and I actually agree that it seems like a case of fair use — but the copyright holder actually uses Murdoch’s words against him:<\/p>\n


\nThe filing chides Murdoch, who has threatened to sue the British Broadcasting Corp. and others for copyright infringement because he claims they are stealing content from his company’s newspapers.<\/p>\n

“Fox sanctimoniously operates unencumbered by the very copyright restrictions it seeks to impose on its competitors,” the lawsuit states.
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Once again, it appears that a copyright holder doesn’t believe in fair use for others, but only for themselves.<\/p>\n

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It’s always funny how those organizations that seem to be against the concept of fair use have it come back to bite them. You may remember, a few months ago, as part of his campaign against “aggregator” sites that “steal” from him, Murdoch commented that fair use would likely be barred in the courts if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}