CAMPAIGN ’88 : Jackson Video Curbed
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday won the first round in his battle to stop the marketing of a videotape of his speech to the Democratic National Convention.
U.S. District Court Judge James Zagel ordered MPI Home Video of Oak Forest, Ill., to suspend sales and distribution of its videotape of Jackson’s speech.
Jackson on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing MPI of marketing the speech illegally. After a 90-minute hearing, Zagel issued the temporary order and said Jackson has a reasonable chance of winning a permanent one.
In the suit, Jackson claimed to hold a copyright to the speech.
An attorney for MPI, James Morrin, argued that the tapes were a form of news dissemination similar to newspaper and television accounts of the speech.
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