"Copyright does not protect facts ..." [1] For NBC to claim that Mitt Romney could possibly have violated copyright laws when one of his campaign ads featured a former news broadcaster saying that some of Gingrich's House colleagues in 1997 had questioned their Speaker's "future effectiveness" [2] is to admit that NBC and its broadcaster were not simply reiterating the facts but were instead indulging in something other than facts that could be subject to copyright, such as fiction. So were NBC and the broadcaster televising facts or fiction at the time?
NBC further claimed that "the extensive use of the broadcast 'inaccurately suggests that NBC News and Mr. Brokaw ... agree with the political position espoused by the videos[.]'" [3] Who in the right mind would reasonably believe that NBC and Brokaw would ever have partisan views? Were they not the pillars of objectivity and integrity in the news reporting business?
[1] http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html
[2] http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-asks-romney-remove-news-material-ad-185037892.html
[3] Ibid.
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