BNP copy cats

| Friday, 27 February 2004 Source: Searchlight

The BNP have suffered a humiliating climbdown after being forced to remove most of its multimedia section on its website. The BNP move came after Searchlight researchers began contacting media outlets informing them that the BNP was breaking copyright by having their newsclips on its site.

Most of the clips were from BBC and Sky news programmes.

The BNP has been told that if the video items were not removed immediately then they would be liable to costs of up to £40,000.

The BNP is now looking at how it can get round this. One suggestion is to make broadcasters sign a legal document entitling the BNP to use interview with their members as a condition for the interview going ahead.

A spokesperson for Searchlight said: "We should expect nothing less from the BNP. There are criminals throughout its organisation so breaking the law comes naturally to them."