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douglas9

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Tue Jan 22, 2019, 01:40 PM Jan 2019

Fox News stops TV recording service that let journalists search for clips

Fox News has barred a TV monitoring service from recording its broadcasts and allowing customers to search for and play back relevant segments. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the monitoring service TVEyes reached a settlement with Fox after a five-year-long legal battle requiring it to permanently stop distributing the network’s shows. TVEyes hasn’t been distributing Fox since March, after receiving an injunction.

TVEyes may not be well known, but it and similar companies perform an important service: allowing journalists to keep tabs on the dozens of hours of content broadcast on news channels each day. That’s particularly important when it comes to Fox News — a channel known for scare tactics, slanted coverage, and being watched by President Donald Trump.

In addition to journalists, the service is used by the White House, members of Congress, and the Department of Defense, according to the Reporter, which has been tracking the lawsuit for the past five years.

TVEyes argued that it made fair use of Fox News’ broadcasts, since its subscribers used the clips for commentary, criticism, and evaluating and tracking coverage. Initially, a federal court agreed, saying in 2014 that some of TVEyes’ service was transformative, according to the Reporter. But last year, an appeals court found that there was no fair use at all, because the service provided “virtually all of Fox’s copyrighted audiovisual content” and deprived Fox of revenue. The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal last month, leading to the settlement.


https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/21/18191652/fox-news-tveyes-settlement-tv-recording-monitoring-service-fair-use

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Fox News stops TV recording service that let journalists search for clips (Original Post) douglas9 Jan 2019 OP
One of the most effective powers of the state in 1984 exboyfil Jan 2019 #1
Yep. Down the memory hole. Harker Jan 2019 #2

exboyfil

(17,857 posts)
1. One of the most effective powers of the state in 1984
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 02:33 PM
Jan 2019

was the ability to change the historical record. If 30%+ of the population is getting virtually all of its "news" from this outlet, it is essential that this archive is preserved.

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