Hello JACUSTOMER,

It would be up to Inside Edition to take action against the third party to take down the video because of the copyright violation. So, it may be effective to make Inside Edition aware of the video so that they can take action. You can try: Contact Inside Edition.

You can also try contacting You Tube through their Legal Issues Page.

Your friend can also write to the third party (preferably through a local attorney) indicating that he has notified Inside Edition about the copyright infringement, and warning that if the video is not taken down he will consider commencing a defamation, violation of privacy, and right to publicity lawsuit.

Thomas

Well you really just have to point out the copyright infringement to them. In doing so, you might want to point out the Inside Edition that you consider their newscast itself defamatory against your friend, and that you might consider legal action against them. Defamation cases are very difficult to win, and I'm not sure you would have much of a case if the video just made your friend "look bad." Defamation has to be something that is factually false. But at least with the threat of action, it may get them to take action on the copyright issue of their video.

Thomas

I'm sorry but the expert agreement that the Just Answer forum requires of its experts prohibits us from contacting users or soliciting users of the site outside of this forum.

Thomas