Political Fair Use

A few weeks ago, a local TV station announced that it was suing a local political candidate (for a federal office) for using part of its newscast without the station's permission. The candidate had recorded a news segment in which the station checked the oppoinent candidate's claims about something and came up with a different set of numbers/facts and then placed that segment (the actual footage) in one of his TV ads, saying that his opponent was lying as proved by reporter X on station Y. The candidate claims fair use; the station says no way.

Has anyone seen this before and, if so, what was the outcome?

Jayne Sebby
Nebraska ETV
jsebby[_at_]unlinfo.unl.edu Received on Thu Oct 10 1996 - 16:21:10 GMT