The Conservatives may have breached copyright laws when they made their attack ads on Dion:
The television ads, which began airing Monday, use footage from last fall’s Liberal leadership debates to deliver the message that the new Grit leader is weak, indecisive and an environmental failure. But that footage belongs to a consortium of TV networks which pooled their resources to provide live coverage of the debates…The networks are now looking into how the Conservatives obtained the debate footage for their ads. CPAC anchor Peter Van Dusen said Monday that any outside use of debate video would have to be approved by all pool members. Moreover, he said such video is traditionally never authorized for use by political parties.
Van Dusen said he is not aware of any request by the Tory party to buy or use any portion of the debate videos.
IF this ends up being the case, Jason Kenney better get back to the Multiculturalism Ministry he’s the minister of and forget about doing campaign ads/propaganda pieces. On the other hand, maybe he shouldn’t be doing that job either. Who knows what he’s been doing with that portfolio since being put in there.
(H/T to Apply Liberally who spotted it at Audacious Ontology)
Damn that would just be hilarious. Deep down inside, I hope its true.