Now you know why. Once again, campaign lawyers are provided with another sheaf of paper to wave at political operatives who insist on getting the campaign in trouble for using copyrighted music without permission. Ben Sheffner’s Copyrights & Campaigns has the news and the opinion. I originally noted the case in April 2009.
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Have you checked your corporate code of conduct recently?
The Post reports that BP’s code of corporate conduct speaks to political donations. BP, the global energy corporation whose massive oil spill is fouling huge swaths of the Gulf of Mexico, proclaims in its corporate code of conduct that it will “make no political contributions, whether in cash or in kind, anywhere in the world.” […]
Franken on Citizens United
Sen. Franken addressed Citizens United in his remarks at Elena Kagan’s nomination hearing. In the early 1960s, car companies knew that they could avoid a large number of fatalities just by installing seat belts in every vehicle. But they didn’t want to. They said “safety doesn’t sell.” But Congress didn’t listen to the car companies. […]