After a campaign by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (”CAIR“) to raise money and convince advertisers to withdraw their support from the syndicated show Savage Nation, Michael Savage, brought a copyright lawsuit against CAIR. According to Savage’s complaint, CAIR had rebroadcast a large segment of one of his copyrighted programs to raise funds for their lobbying efforts.

The complaint states that “the segment misappropriated was in excess of four minutes…was used by CAIR for fund-raising purposes and…in a manner designed to cause harm to the value of the copyright material in the long and short term.”

This case will likely raise a lot of interesting questions regarding the boundaries between the first amendment and copyright law. It will certainly generate a lot of publicity for both CAIR and Mr. Savage.

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