Yesterday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) launched a new blog, The Gavel. Today, a group of conservative House members issued a release claiming Pelosi had “violated copyright and trademark law on the very first day” by “using pirated content” from C-SPAN. The group suggested “the Speaker bring the gavel down on ‘the Gavel Blog.’” Within hours, the conservatives learned that their legal analysis was wrong and embarrassingly retracted their complaint.
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