New York News Station Denied Quick Exit From Copyright Suit (1)

An NBC affiliate in Rochester, N.Y., failed to kill a copyright infringement lawsuit accusing it of unfairly sampling a university student journalist’s interviews of first-time voters.

Photographer Boris Shirman accused WHEC-TV LLC of infringing his 2016 video showing pictures of high school students matched with audio from interviews. The U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York denied the station’s bid to dismiss the case because it couldn’t conclude as a matter of law that fair use factors weighed in its favor.

The May 17 ruling showed that using even limited parts of a video in a news ...