America versus the Media

Both defendants Daily News, and Los Angeles Times being in the "newspaper business" knew very well that plaintiff's political advertisement was appropriate and not barred by any copyright laws, whatsoever. Plaintiff's political advertisement constituted "FAIR USE' of the news articles which, pursuant to Title 17, United States Code § 107, barred and removed from copyright protection the news articles. This fair use of what would otherwise be infringement is permissible even where a party using the article, along with his political statement...

Times says American Patrol deprived it of freedom of speech. Phony use of anti-SLAPPs