But we should not have controversy over livestreaming political debates with commentary. Whether this is Fair Use ought to be settled law already,
Thursday, August 01, 2019
Pakman's knockdown by CNN during livestream of debate raises questions that ought to be settled law
On Wednesday, July 31, I embedded David Pakman’s video
of his having a livestream of the CNN Democratic debates stopped (on the TV
blog). Pakman reported getting a formal
three month copyright strike from YouTube after a manual complaint from someone
at CNN, and also being the target of a malicious tweet calling him a pirate.
Today Pakman reports that the copyright strike has
been reversed. He did the second night livestream on Twitch without incident. I’m a little confused if you need separate
Twitch membership to his channel to join the chat.
But the big question still remains: can one network monopolize rights to carry a
political debate from candidates for national office? How does copyright law apply? Could the Copyright office change the policy if
CASE eventually passes?
Did the Democratic Party of DNC give CNN exclusive
right to carry the debates? It sounds
like it is very much against the public interest if it did so, and the DNC is
giving in to Wall Street and big media if it did, and behaving hypocritically
(big surprise).
But it is common for persons who film pubic events
(like outdoor protests and demonstrations) to own the exclusive rights for
their own film, and to license the film to documentary film companies or to
larger news outlets for broadcast. It is
possible to do this and still allow the YouTube video to be embedded for free
in blog posts (although that goes against the idea of paywalls and this practice
could change if industry gets around to setting up bundled paywalls for
consumers, which I have been advocating for having healthier business models). Ford Fischer’s videos of protests are licensed
this way (by News2Share).
But we should not have controversy over livestreaming political debates with commentary. Whether this is Fair Use ought to be settled law already,
But we should not have controversy over livestreaming political debates with commentary. Whether this is Fair Use ought to be settled law already,
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