Boing Boing: Pentagon censors 'People's Right to Know' video over copyright concerns

Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Pentagon censors 'People's Right to Know' video over copyright concerns

Whups -- the Pentagon censored portions of a video used to teach about FOIA and public information, according to this report by Ted Bridis at AP:

The Defense Department spent $70,500 to produce a Humphrey Bogart-themed video called "The People's Right to Know" to teach employees to respond to citizen requests for information. But when it came to showing the tape to the public, the Pentagon censored some of the footage.
Officials said they blacked out parts of the training video with the message, "copyrighted material removed for public viewing," because they were worried the government didn't have legal rights to some historical footage that was included.

Link to story, Link to video clips (Real) (via Politech)

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