Does Labour's attack ad break the law? #2
Monday, March 05, 2007
The backstory: Labour release attack ad on the net. Ad contains the famous Redwood failing to sing anthem footage. Does the Labour party breach copyright?
The juice: I have it on good authority that Labour haven't received permission to use the Redwood pictures. YouTube policy states that videos which infringe copyright should be taken down.
Labels: attack ad, Copyright, Labour, Welsh Conservatives, YouTube
posted by Blamerbell @ 1:16 pm,
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Does Labour's attack ad break the law?
Friday, March 02, 2007
Welsh Labour took to the blogs yesterday to promote their internet-only party political broadcast attack on the Tories. Huw Lewis, Leighton Andrews and Rob Newman all proudly linked to the ad, though it still wasn't enough to rouse Carl Sargeant from a four month blogging exile.
The video itself is pretty naff: a collage of Tory scare stories from another era flanked by those famous images of John Redwood failing to sing the national anthem. But who owns them? The Redwood footage looks like it's been lifted from another YouTube video, possibly the one you can see HERE. But who really owns that? Not the Labour party, I imagine.
Of course, people rip and burn on the internet all the time. But then, we aren't the party of government: representatives who are elected to make laws, not break them.
Perhaps Labour actually secured the copyright owner's permission to distribute. If not, they are contravening section 17 of the Copyright Act 1988 and there's a case to answer.
Labels: attack ad, Copyright, Labour, party political broadcast, politics, Welsh Assembly Election 2007, YouTube
posted by Blamerbell @ 12:52 pm,
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