NBC News sent Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign a letter objecting to its use of footage from the network in an advertisement, according to a Politico report on Wednesday.
The ad, which addressed the Benghazi committee’s intentions, included a voice over of a report by NBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
“NBC News in no way authorized them to use any of our material and we had no idea this was coming,” Mitchell said Tuesday on her show, according to Politico.
Here’s Clinton’s advertisement:
Hey lawyers: is this fair use? Somebody said something on a news program and you briefly excerpt?
Also, when a campaign uses somebody’s music and that somebody doesn’t like it, isn’t there a mandatory license that makes it moot, as long as ASCAP gets their cut? Just askin’.
Sounds like Fair Use to me.
This seems really weird. I recall countless ads that use news footage.
Like here:
In 2012 NBC made the same complaint against Obama and asked him to stop. Good luck boys.
Andrea Mitchell has been relentless in her coverage of the phony email scandale and doesn’t miss an opportunity to hammer the “trouble for Hillary” meme. Seems to me turnabout is fair play in this case in particular.