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Maker of film 'Crude' ordered to turn over footage http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1273258032
A federal judge ordered a documentary filmmaker Thursday to turn over about 600 hours of raw footage from a film about a court fight over whether Chevron Corp. owes billions of dollars in damages for oil contamination in Ecuador.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said filmmaker Joseph Berlinger must turn over the outtakes from the film "Crude," which was released last year, to lawyers for Chevron.
Kaplan said Berlinger could not use the First Amendment to shield himself from Chevron's effort to get the raw footage because Berlinger had not demonstrated he was entitled to a journalist's privilege of confidentiality... Maura Wogan, a lawyer for Berlinger, said Berlinger will ask Kaplan to delay the effect of his order so he has time to appeal to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan.
The ruling threatens "great harm to documentary filmmakers and investigative reporters everywhere," she said.
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This means Metallica gets to ask for their spare footage!
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Remember: A court-appointed expert in Ecuador recommended Chevron pony up $27 billion for the mess.
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