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Los Angeles New Service (DECISION AGAINST USER)

Los Angeles New Service v. KCAL-TV, 1999 & Los Angeles New Service v. Reuters Television International, Ltd., 1998. Both of these cases involved use by news services of video of the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. In both cases, the footage, owned by a small company called Los Angeles News Service, which specializes in news footage, was used in news broadcast. The court ruled that the news services were re-using footage for the purpose for which it had originally been captured, to promote news reporting.

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