The Fair Use Project at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society and Bingham McCutchen LLP filed a lawsuit today against talk radio host Michael Savage and Original Talk Radio Network, Inc. (OTRN) on behalf of Brave New Films. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeks declaratory relief and damages following improper efforts to silence Brave New Films' criticism of Savage over anti-Muslim remarks he made on his nationally syndicated radio show, The Savage Nation.
On January 18, 2008, Brave New Films created and uploaded to its YouTube channel "Michael Savage Hates Muslims," a short video that criticizes anti-Muslim comments Savage made on his October 29, 2007 radio broadcast. The video uses a total of one minute of audio excerpts from Savage's show in which Savage instructs Muslims to "take [their] religion and shove it up [their] behind" and urges his listeners to confront Muslims in the "supermarket line." In addition to playing this brief audio clip, the Brave New Films' video directs viewers to nosavage.org, a website dedicated to exposing and criticizing Savage's views.
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