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SLRC MAKES MSNBC PAY FOR UNAUTHORIZED
USE OF CONFEDERATE EVENT FOOTAGE
BLACK MOUNTAIN, NC – After being contacted by the Southern Legal
Resource Center, officials at MSNBC say they will pay a North
Carolina video producer for footage of a Confederate observance
which the network obtained and broadcast on nationwide television
without the producer’s knowledge or consent. MSNBC has also agreed
to delete the clip from its broadcast and Internet outlets.
Michael Chapman, a Wingate, NC – based videographer, consulted the
SLRC after he received reports that excerpts of a documentary he
produced several years ago had surfaced on MSNBC’s “Countdown with
Keith Olbermann” as part of a searingly sarcastic attack on Southern
preparations for the sesquicentennial of the War Between the States.
The Olbermann segment, which aired Dec. 1, was labeled
“Commemorating 150 Years of Treason.”
An exchange of telephone calls and e-mails between SLRC Chief Trial
Counsel Kirk D. Lyons and Ken Powell, a representative of the Rights
and Clearances department of MSNBC’s parent company, NBC, resulted
in the network’s agreeing to pay Chapman an undisclosed sum for his
video material. MSNBC also agreed, in its own words, “to make all
reasonable efforts to remove the clip from airing on all broadcast
and/or internet outlets it controls.” In a separate action,
according to Chapman, links to the Olbermann segment have been
removed from YouTube. Chapman said the footage may be viewed in
context at www.dixieedu.com. Chapman said he was “extremely pleased
with the settlement, which should send a message to the TV News
industry who use our copyrighted material to bash us."
The Southern Legal Resource Center, founded in 1995, is a nonprofit
organization that advocates on behalf of citizens involved in
Southern heritage issues.
This web site provides vital information for those concerned with preserving Southern Heritage, from the merely interested, to those under attack by South bashers, to the attorneys fighting to stop these abuses.
Join the Pro-South attorneys of the SLRC. We are a 501 (c) (3)
non-profit legal foundation waging a counter-offensive to preserve Southern Heritage. We are winning legal battles, but we need your help to do more.
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Pictured Above: The SLRC has designed this logo for use in our Harvard Confederate Memorial Initiative. The left hand side of the shield is a parody of the Harvard seal, with Harvard's traditional crimson field changed to black – the color of mourning and remembrance. Above the field is the Roman numeral LXXI (71), representing the number of Confederate casualties among Harvard alumni. The three books, which in the Harvard logo bear the Harvard's motto, the Latin word “Veritas” (“Truth”) have been replaced with the Latin word “Pietas” (“Duty”/“Devotion”/”Kindness”). A Harvard professor in 1988 stated that a Confederate memorial on campus would be “a long overdue act of Pietas.”
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SLRC Kicks Off Equal Recognition Campaign
For Harvard's Confederate Dead
05 March 2010
CAMBRIDGE, MA – The country's oldest seat of higher learning, since 1636 the gold standard for academic excellence and purveyor to the nation of presidents, ambassadors, distinguished scientists and jurists, captains of industry, etc., etc., is the principal icon of the New England Puritan intellectual tradition in America. Dedicated to the Harvard dead of all wars, its Memorial Church boasts, on the wall of the south transept, 28 white marble tablets inscribed with the names of 136 Harvard men who fought and died while serving in the Union Army.
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Reply Brief in the
Candice Hardwick Case
02 July
2010
United States Court of Appeals
for the Fourth Circuit
C.H., by and through her Parents and Guardians DARYL L. HARDWICK and
PRISCILLA L. HARDWICK, Appellant,
– v. –
MARTHA HEYWARD, in her individual capacity and in her official capacity
as Principal of Latta Middle School, et al.,
Appellees.
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