Friday, February 04, 2011

Post-Dispatch offers details of Fox News/Carnahan campaign settlement

According to an article posted earlier this afternoon on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website, the settlement reached in Fox News' copyright infringement lawsuit against the Robin Carnahan for Senate campaign is as follows:

On Friday, the two sides announced a settlement in the case, along with a mutually agreed upon statement in which the Carnahan campaign concedes the footage from Fox was used inappropriately.


According to the statement, the Carnahan campaign believed that the commercial "was permissible under the copyright fair use doctrine."

But the campaign now "acknowledges that the amount and kind of footage used in its 'Clean Up The House' advertisement, as well as the manner in which the footage was used in the advertisement, exceeded that which is permitted," the statement says.

Both sides agreed that the ad would not run again and, according to a separate court filing, paid their own attorney fees.

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