President Trump May Have Violated Copyright Law to Congratulate Himself for Nobel Prize He Didn't [View all]
President Trump May Have Violated Copyright Law to Congratulate Himself for Nobel Prize He Didn’t Win
President Donald Trump shared a video late Monday that appears to attempt an awkwardly self-congratulatory montage of Trump’s accomplishments. The video didn’t just tout a prize that was never awarded, it may have violated intellectual property law when doing so.
Forty-two seconds in, the caption “Trump stands for peace” fills the screen; next, the video shows Trump, standing alongside other dignitaries, proudly displaying a document, all while the Nobel Prize graphic plays in the corner.
A casual observer might well take the images to mean that Trump won the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump did no such thing. Apart from the obvious issue there, there are a couple of potential legal problems with Trump’s video.
First, there’s the potentially unauthorized use of the Nobel Prize image.
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