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Posted Fri Jan 14 2011: from
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Filmmaker must surrender Chevron footage: court http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1294972405
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday upheld a lower court's order that a filmmaker must hand over to Chevron Corp raw footage from a documentary as part of a legal fight over oil pollution in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest.
At stake in the 17-year-old case are $27 billion in damages and clean-up costs the Ecuadorian government is claiming from Chevron. Indigenous communities accuse the oil company Texaco -- taken over by Chevron in 2001 -- of damaging their health and environment by polluting rivers.
Filmmaker Joe Berlinger had argued that raw footage from his documentary "Crude" was a form of journalism and was therefore protected by press privileges.
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Chevron is some kind of monster!
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("Some Kind of Monster" is Joe Berlinger's 2004 film about Metallica.) The same day this story came out, Associated Press reported Chevron had "the largest quarterly profit in its 129-year corporate history": $7.89 billion.
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