Senate Hopeful Casts Copyright Claims Against Incumbent Reid

As the battle for one of Nevada’s Senate seats heats up between incumbent Harry Reid (D) and challenger Sharron Angle (R), Angle’s camp issued a cease-and-desist letter to Reid’s team over images and position statements taken from an old Angle website, which were then posted to the website theRealSharronAngle.com.

TPM reported that Angle launched a new website after winning the Nevada Republican Senate primary, at least partly to tone down “her right-wing rhetoric.” The Reid campaign team had saved Angle’s old website contents however, and reproduced them on the aforementioned website (which has since been taken down and now forwards to SharronsUndergroundBunker.com).

The complaint filed by Angle alleged that Reid was using the new old website in order to capture “the names of persons seeking to add their names and email addresses as supporters of Sharron Angle.” The complaint also contended that the design and information found on Angle’s previous website was copyrighted by “my client and its vendor.”