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"The appeal involves the application of the qualified evidentiary privilege for information gathered during a journalistic investigation, sometimes described as the 'press privilege' or 'journalist's privilege.'"

"The appeal involves the application of the qualified evidentiary privilege for information gathered during a journalistic investigation, sometimes described as the 'press privilege' or 'journalist's privilege.'" In an appeal concerning the documentary film Crude about litigation being conducted in the courts of Ecuador over allegations of environmental damage from petroleum exploration and extraction operations conducted by an affiliate of Chevron, today a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision affirming the trial court's order directing the film's creator to turn over videotape footage constituting the outtakes of the film.

Update: In early news coverage, The Associated Press has a report headlined "NY court: Filmmaker gave up journalistic freedom."

Full post as published by How Appealing on January 13, 2011 (boomark / email).