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23 Apr 7:04 pm
... . Cal. April 15, 2009). The Justia page. In October 2007, radio personality Michael Savage (aka
Weiner--hence the case caption) went on an anti-Muslim tirade on ... show. This has become the source of at least 2 lawsuits. The first lawsuit was brought by Savage against the Council for American-Islamic Relations, which posted 4 minutes of excerpts ... channel. BNF filed a 512(g) counternotification and
initiated a lawsuit against Savage and OTRN, seeking a declaratory judgment and alleging a 17 USC 512( ...
15 Jun 6:59 am
... . If you were following copyright last summer, you may remember the case Savage v. Council on American-Islamic Relations. The back story
goes like this ... ) Shortly after the Weiner broadcast, Brave New Films released a video on YouTube titled "Michael Savage Hates Muslims": Original Talk Radio Network, which distributes ... not "touch[ ] the legal relations of parties" because OTRN didn't dispute that it
Savage was the owner of the clips. OTRN argued that it sent the takedown notice by mistake. 17 U.S ...
1 Aug, 2008 10:18 am
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of San Francisco dismissed a lawsuit by conservative radio talk-show host Michael Savage against a Muslim rights group that reprinted his attacks against Islam. Thanks to the court's ruling you ... in context and benefits both the public
and the target of the criticism. She also noted that there was no evidence of harm to Savage's ability to market this broadcast. The right to
be publicly stupid should always to be balanced by the opportunity to be publicly ridiculed ...
4 Dec, 2007 8:18 am
Right wing radio talk-show host and tort "reformer" Michael Savage has brought a lawsuit. The
infraction? He was quoted by an Islamic group on its website in which he called the Quran a "book ... ) disseminate of propaganda on behalf of foreign interests that are opposed to the
continued existence of the United States of America as a free nation." At the Savage website, there is an announcement of the suit trying to
silence the Islamic site, accompanied by a "Legal Defense Fund" to "Support Freedom ...
28 Jul, 2008 4:37 pm
... Wright Tremaine LLP filed in a copyright infringement suit brought by talk show host Michael Savage against the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Savage had sued CAIR back in December 2007, alleging that
CAIR infringed the copyright in ... with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Court dismissed the claim with leave to amend. According to the San Francisco Chronicle,
Savage's attorney Daniel Horowitz acknowledged that the opinion was "very carefully thought-out," but promised to file a ...
21 Jul, 2008 4:24 pm
... the National Coalition for Disability Rights (NCDR), stated: "ADA Watch/NCDR calls on Talk Radio Network to fire Michael Savage. As America prepares to celebrate the 18th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26th, people with ... autism -- calling
them "frauds" and "brats" -- is rightly being condemned as hateful and bigoted. But it is just the latest of Savage's numerous and painful
attempts to demean and disenfranchise people with disabilities." Savage has also used his ...
13 Oct, 2008 4:39 pm
Michael Savage has one of the most popular shows on the radio. He doesn't hesitate to speak his mind,
no matter how controversial his views. He ... Films created a similar video and posted it to YouTube. That video likewise documents Savage's
comments and urges viewers to do something about them. Brave New ... , along with co-counsel Bingham McCutchen, have now sued OTRN and Savage
to recover damages for the misrepresentations made in connection with the wrongful removal of the video from YouTube, and ...
1 Aug, 2008 12:24 am
... "fair use" principles in a lawsuit brought by radio talk show host Michael Savage.
Savage went on a tirade ("Take your religion and shove it") about Muslims and the ... based upon the "fair use" doctrine and the "Oh Pretty
Woman" case. See Savage v. Council on American Relations et al. She noted that the Copyright Act ... use for the purposes of criticism and
commentary." The same First Amendment which allows Michael Savage to rant about Muslims enables them
to criticize him. Copyrights and trademarks ...
26 Jul, 2008 6:06 am
Savage Nation Originally uploaded by Steve Rhodes. Several months ago, radio personality Michael
Savage sued the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for copyright infringement (plus some RICO charges) because they rebroadcast just
over ... s] use of the limited excerpts from the radio show was to criticize publicly the anti-Muslim message of those excerpts. To comment on [Savage's] statements without reference or citation to them would not only render [CAIR's] criticism less reliable, but be ...
13 Aug, 2007 4:48 pm
The City and County of San Francisco will be voting on a resolution condemning Michael Savage for his
radio attacks on the immigrant community. The resolution is scheduled for a vote tomorrow Tuesday August 14th. The proposed resolution is on...
31 Jul, 2008 9:07 pm
Last week, a federal district judge threw out Michael Savage's copyright and RICO claim based on
CAIR's posting and criticizing a 4-minute snippet of Savage's radio program. The court correctly...
19 Sep, 2008 5:38 pm
Michael Savage, of right-wing, reactionary talk radio infamy, is at it again, this time attacking
Muslim immigrants. Savage on Muslim immigrants: 15th-century "throwbacks, some of whom are no doubt terrorists, and some of whom are gonna
produce children who will...
16 Oct, 2008 3:39 pm
TechDirt: "Fair Use Project Sues Michael Savage For Stifling Free Speech of His Critics"
5 May 4:24 pm
Michael Savage, a not-so-crypto fascist and racist talk show host in the US, has been put into some
appropriate company, thanks to the British Government. Of course, it will just have the perverse effect of gaining him more attention in...
7 May 2:51 pm
Radio host Michael Savage now says he wants UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to apologize to him for
including him on a list of unwanted visitors to the country. "I'm a patriotic American, and if that's a crime in England,...
26 Nov, 2007 2:48 pm
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/26/2007) - On Tuesday, November 27, the newly-formed Hate Hurts America Community and Interfaith Coalition, a group of religious and civic organizations seeking to
challenge hate speech on talk radio, will hold a news conference in San Francisco,...
26 Feb, 2008 1:47 pm
The Bristol paper reports here that an illegal immigrant from Mexico was sentenced by Judge Lowe of the Washington County Circuit Court to 26 life terms in prison, one for each month
that he molested a young girl. The article does not say which Southwest Virginia employer or employers had been paying him, right here in Washington County. Also today came published
reports such as this one, indicating "Immigrants in California, including those without documents, are 'far less likely' than the ...
19 Jul, 2008 11:19 pm
What a complete and total jackass.
6 Aug, 2008 11:26 am
Rep. Ton Tancredo, an anti-immigrant advocate in Congress (and one time Republican Presidential candidate) who is not seeking re-election, released a letter to California Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger on how to deal with the state's budget crisis. His suggestion -- kick...
8 May 9:56 am
... Illston on April 15. As explained in earlier posts, Original Talk Radio Network, the national syndicator of Savage's radio show, sent a
takedown notice to YouTube demanding that YouTube remove BNF's video "Michael Savage Hates Muslims."
BNF's video uses audio clips of The Michael ... The Court disagreed and held that BNF's complaint adequately alleged that OTRN ostensibly acted
as Savage's agent when it sent the takedown to YouTube. Judge Illston pointed out that OTRN's letter said ...
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