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Re: Politicians allowed to veto use of news footage?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:11:00 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford wrote:
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Our largely taxpayer-funded free to air TV channel, the
ABC, now
says it can’t
sell archival footage of politicians to 3rd party documentary makers, unless
they get permission from the politician involved.
They think “...the ABC could be exposed to the risk of claims under the Trade
Practices Act or pursuant to the tort of Passing Off.”
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ianal, but I have had a passing association with both the TPA and torts, and
this sounds like drivel, and not even very entertaining drivel.
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Anyone else know of any news/media organisations that have the same policy?
Seems a bit silly to me.
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Mmmmm. Sounds like the ABC is only a step or two away from starting Winston’s
work in the Ministry of
Truth, hunting back through records and histories to expunge ‘errors’ in the
name of ‘truth’. After all, if a politican indicates that she will never
authorise re-use of the material, why bother keeping it. In the name of
efficiency, it may as well be deleted.
Hansard, the official reporting service of parliament, sends drafts of
transcripts of the happenings in the houses to politicians involved to enable
them to confirm the transcript before printing, and there is some politic
cleaning up of impolitic words here and there, but never to change the sense,
much less try to conceal the evidence of what took place.
I’d say ‘watch this space’. I doubt that this will be allowed to stand...
Richard
Still baldly going...
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| Our largely taxpayer-funded free to air TV channel, the (URL), now (URL) says> it can't sell archival footage of politicians to 3rd party documentary makers, unless they get permission from the politician involved. They think "...the ABC could be (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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