Conservative Election Campaign Ads Violated Copyright, CBC Says

Conservative Election Campaign Ads Violated Copyright, CBC Says
A man is silhouetted walking past a Conservative Party logo before the opening of the Party's national convention in Halifax, on Aug. 23, 2018. Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press
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TORONTO—The Conservative party’s use of CBC news footage in a partisan attack ad and tweets was a copyright infringement damaging to the public broadcaster’s integrity and impartiality, Federal Court heard Thursday.

In submissions to the court, CBC lawyer Andrea Gonsalves said the federal Conservatives exploited the very qualities that make the CBC a trustworthy source of information.