Perspective
Mar. 4, 2016
The other Rodney King case
Anyone in Los Angeles in the 1990s saw parts of George Holliday's footage of the Rodney King beating. The principle question presented by Holliday's copyright lawsuit was whether those broadcasts violated the Copyright Act. By Jordan Segall and Steven Perry
Jordan D. Segall
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Stanford Univ Law School; Stanford CA
Twenty-five years ago today, in the early morning of March 3, 1991, a plumber named George Holliday was awakened by police sirens and the sound of a helicopter hovering over his San Fernando Valley apartment. Holliday grabbed the Sony camcorder he had purchased a few weeks earlier, walked out on his small balcony and began to record a tape that, in the words of U.S. District Judge Irving Hill, "sparked a great nat...
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