ABC, Kimmel Wrongly Ducked Copyright Suit, Santos Tells 2nd Cir.

Former Rep. George Santos’ copyright suit against Jimmy Kimmel and ABC over use of his Cameo videos shouldn’t have been prematurely tossed on First Amendment grounds, he told the Second Circuit.

A judge dismissed the case by improperly weighting fair-use factors and glossing over deception by “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to get Santos to make the videos, the politician told the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a brief filed Monday. Santos argued the court wrongly found the purpose of the use to be transformative, and therefore favored under the “fair use” analysis, despite the show manufacturing that ...