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TVEyes pulls Fox Business content after losing copyright suit

Media monitoring service TVEyes will no longer provide customers with video access to Fox Business after the company lost a lengthy legal battle with Fox News over copyright infringement, reports Jon Levine of TheWrap.

Levine writes, “TVEyes said it would continue to provide ‘alerts and search results, including full text, based on our index,’ and any ‘audio or video content publicly posted by Fox on the Internet that contains monitored keywords.’

“The company also urged anyone upset about the change to contact Fox Network Group COO Brian Sullivan.

“In February, The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit officially sided with Fox News over TVEyes, ruling that the video content it provided did not meet the standard of fair use and could no longer be offered. The same court denied the company’s petition for a rehearing yesterday.

“A rep for Fox News directed TheWrap to a February press release lauding the original decision.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.