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July 14, 2006

Channel 12 settles suit over Station video

The owner of Channel 12 has settled a lawsuit with Discovery Times Channel and a documentary producer over the rights to a video of The Station nightclub fire taped by a Channel 12 camera operator, the parties have announced.

TVL Broadcasting, owner of Channel 12, filed the lawsuit in March in U.S. District Court, alleging that Discovery Times Channel and Granada America, the documentary production company, had used copyrighted video footage without permission in a program about the fire.

A Channel 12 camera operator was inside the West Warwick club when the fire started Feb. 20, 2003, killing 100 people and injuring another 200.

Granada America maintained that it used only limited portions of the material for its documetary, called Decoding Disaster, and that it was fair use under copyright law, according to a statement from Channel 12.

The case will be dismissed and TVL will license portions of the video to Granada America, Channel 12 said. TVL will not receive money for the license, but has required that one scene not be shown and that faces of the fire victims be blurred, the station said.

-- With reports from Journal staff writer Paul Edward Parker

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