NY Post - January 17, 2009
MICHAEL MOORE'S COMEUPPANCE
Filmmaker Michael Moore may have built his career on the political exploitation of others' grief, but it's to be hoped that won't protect him from the long arm of US copyright law - or the righteous outrage of a particularly wronged war-zone journalist.
Award-winning independent correspondent Michael Yon is getting ready to sue Moore for the unauthorized use of one of his most heart-rending photographs - a 2005 shot of an American soldier holding an Iraqi girl who'd been fatally wounded in a car bombing.
Moore, in typical fashion, last year pasted the shot on his Web site next to pictures of Hillary Clinton, George Bush and John McCain to illustrate his latest anti-war screed, implicitly blaming the three for the girl's death. Story continues here...
Award-winning independent correspondent Michael Yon is getting ready to sue Moore for the unauthorized use of one of his most heart-rending photographs - a 2005 shot of an American soldier holding an Iraqi girl who'd been fatally wounded in a car bombing.
Moore, in typical fashion, last year pasted the shot on his Web site next to pictures of Hillary Clinton, George Bush and John McCain to illustrate his latest anti-war screed, implicitly blaming the three for the girl's death. Story continues here...
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