ABC Sports: Pawlenty’s use of Olympics footage is copyright infringement

Slapshot Tim, borrowed money gimmicks, borrowed ABC footage. The man has now apparent moral compass what-so-ever.

Jeff Wilfahrt, Rosemount, MN

So do Pawlenty and Bachmann not understand copyright law or do they just assume the law doesn’t apply to them?

Chayanov, I think Timmy is just hoping that ABC feels sorry for him and will give him a pass.

There are a lot of reasons to pity him. His ego got mighty inflated from all those fancy out-of-state commentators mentioning his name as a Presidential contender. Add in the adoration the Strib and PiPress bestowed upon him, and you get a guy with self-esteem to spare. Now, his campaign is foundering. The hometown lunatic has shot past him in both the polls and fundraising, His whole operation looks like it is run by a Cub Scout troop. The most inspiring image he can dredge up is footage of an event that happened over thirty years ago.

What a comedown. If he had even approached competency as a Governor, I might be inclined to feel sorry for him, myself.

I’m almost starting to feel sorry for Pawlenty. He has to know he doesn’t stand a chance of getting the nomination. If he really thinks he’s a “dark horse” candidate, he’s delusional. I thought for a while that he might be positioning himself as a VP choice, but who would pick him? He doesn’t bring a key demographic/region/skill set that any nominee would find necessary or desirable. Pawlenty is utterly irrelevant in this election, and the polls show it.

Not so sure he is delusional he might be wondering if there is a need for comunisum or maby with all the claymation he has intent for extermination or maby he fears that the human traficking Bissnasses may be at risk of extenchon so pleas watch the endoosun or the holy buck gets it!

he shur the hell aint a warhorse and he sure as hell aint a home town hero!

It’s too bad, because Pawlenty would undoubtedly be the best President from among all Republican and Democrat and Independent possibilities I’ve seen. Smart guy, hard-working, able to work a group into agreements, working-class roots . . .

He lacks a huge screen presence – you see him for the first time on television and you don’t get any visceral reaction like “oo, a star!”, but consider that, as a Republican legislator for two terms and then a Republican governor for two terms – in Minnesota, which is the land that gave y’all Franken, Mondale, Wellstone, Humphrey – liberal La La Land, in other words – he kept our budget from growing much if at all, and he was a hair’s breadth from doing it with no new taxes at all.

Like I said, he lacks a certain stage presence. But then, Obama HAS that stage presence, and look what that told us about his competency to be president.

Almost forgot:

ABC, that footage has been out there in the public domain for years. Have you done the takedown notices on YouTube? I notice that the clip I watched there months ago is still there, along with about twenty other versions/cuttings.

Plus, if you’re going to claim that the Miracle On Ice belongs to you, we’re going to need to re-think handing over the broadcast of the Olympics to your company ever again. That’s an American icon.

“reviewed by the campaign’s lawyers”???

When will they finish their review – after the election? Fair Use includes editorials, satire, and research. It does not include profiting or self-promotion.

Why do republicans have so much trouble understanding the law?

“he kept our budget from growing much if at all, and he was a hair’s breadth from doing it with no new taxes at all”

That’s some serious Kool-Aid you’re drinking.