AP GOP retracts its criticism of Pelosi (on copyrights "violations")

[rodeodance]

Thanks to Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

GOP retracts its criticism of Pelosi
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070216/ap_on_go_co/pelosi_c_span;_ylt=AsprIuDpkSsgX2sF0tgYWdSyFz4D
GOP retracts its criticism of Pelosi

By KASIE HUNT, Associated Press Writer Thu Feb 15, 9:04 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Republicans quickly retracted a news release Thursday that accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) of violating copyrights of C-SPAN, the cable channel that televises House and Senate proceedings.

The GOP took Pelosi to task because her new blog used video of this week's Iraq war debate, but then backtracked after learning C-SPAN had no copyright for the footage.

The Republican Study Committee, a group of conservative House members, contended in an afternoon news release that Pelosi's Web log violated copyright and trademark law by pirating "for partisan purposes" clips of members speaking on the House floor.

The clips, hosted by the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube, have C-SPAN's logo visible.

"As of noon today, the speaker had posted at least 16 videos that are copyrighted C-SPAN material from the House floor," according to the release from RSC spokesman Brad Dayspring. He cited an unnamed C-SPAN employee responsible for answering copyright questions from congressional employees.

[Chimichurri]

1. She won't be able to go to the bathroom with the rabid right saying

something about it. Maybe they should worry more about the demise of their party rather than waste any more time Bill Clintoning her.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. you mean, she has to do something pedestrian like pee?

SHAME ON HER! She's HUMAN! Kick her out of office!

[tanyev]

2. "He cited an unnamed C-SPAN employee"

Just like all those unnamed senior White House officials that are continually cited. Shameless.

[rodeodance]

3. Repugs very eager to jump on Pelosi----more to come I am sure. They

have a High learning curve.

[Demeter]

19. Pelosi Talks Softly and Carries a Real Big Clue Stick

She knows how to use it, and she's not afraid to.

Pelosi will be our next President, and first woman in Oval Office!

[AndyTiedye]

20. Since When did Karl Rove Work for CSPAN?

cited an unnamed CSPAN employee"

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4. "That's in the public domain, it's owned by the American people," Moire said.

...Not so, said C-SPAN spokeswoman Jennifer Moire. The videos on Pelosi's blog, called The Gavel, came from the House chamber, where the footage is shot by cameras owned by Congress, not C-SPAN.

"That's in the public domain, it's owned by the American people," Moire said.

Dayspring retracted the release two hours after it went out, saying C-SPAN general counsel Bruce Collins had called the committee and said the information from the release was incorrect.

"The bottom line is, we were given contradictory information," Dayspring said in an interview. "We wanted to be clear that we are trying to operate where the facts are."

[crud76]

8. This Sounds Eerily Familiar

"The bottom line is, we were given contradictory information," Dayspring said in an interview. "We wanted to be clear that we are trying to operate where the facts are."

Well, did Pelosi have weapons of mass destruction or didn't she?

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[LiberalFighter]

9. Who is the unnamed source that they used? We want to know NOW!!

Or did they decide on their own that it was copyrighted? Or did they decide to slime without any concern about the truth?

[Fovea]

6. I wonder how long it is going to take them

to realize that every time they whack her with a Rove Stick, they get smaller and more impotent.

I hope it takes until 09.

[depakid]

7. The GOP & intellectual property law abuses

Two peas in a pod.

Unfortunately, all too many Dems go along with them...

Paging Howard Berman.

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. Indeed...you should see the IP vultures on this very forum

Happy to suck from the public teat until they suddenly start spouting on about individual creativity and Romantic authorship.

That the GOP would assume that discussions from the House floor (fer chrissakes!) were private property of a service designed precisely to PUBLICIZE discussions from the House floor says everything you need to know about 1) the GOP's contempt for public decision-making and 2) the outrageous devolution of copyright law and degradation of the public domain.

These people are fucking thieves and liars. But yes, far too many Democrats and DUers think the DMCA and other such obnoxious enclosure acts are peachy keen.

[zbdent]

10. But now, the attack is out in the public

and the truth is squirrelled in the corner ...

[Hav]

11. .

Pelosi: Thanks for bringing publicity to my new site.

[Beetwasher]

12. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! What A Bunch Of Whiny Morans!

They can't get ANYTHING right! :rofl:

[FreeStateDemocrat]

13. Did anybody apologize? Somebody has to apologize, we gotta have an apology.

[apnu]

15. Once again 'unnamed' source are at the heart of this.

When will people wake up (Not the cool cats of DU tho, we're hip to this already) and learn that whenever the MSM or any member of the GOP says 'unnamed source' actually means: 'we're just making shit up to see if it sticks'

I think the worm is turning here, but its turning so damned slow its driving me nuts.

[JaneQPublic]

16. It's time these failed attempts to discredit Pelosi BECOME the story

First, the GOP leaders blast her for requesting a bigger plane... only it turns out she never did.

Then they blast her for copyright violations when it turns out the material wasn't copyrighted.

So it's time the media turn their focus on the GOP's repeated attempts to discredit the Speaker and how each time they're wrong.

Of course that will never happen. The media want to cover a Pelosi scandal as badly as the GOP wants to find one.


Edit: for subject-verb agreement

[w4rma]

17. There they go again: Trying to make public information private and secret. (nt)

[Doondoo]

18. K&R