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Taking Liberties: Big Foot Spotted
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State park demands permit from amateur movie maker
- Duration 2:37
- Date Nov 23, 2011
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Big putts biking for his right -- OK maybe not necessarily really the real big but.
It is an amateur filmmaker actually finds himself in a fight ever the first amendment's.
The latest in -- taking -- series Douglas Kennedy is live in New York City with more on this story -- but really.
Yeah yeah -- bigfoot was spotted in New Hampshire and then told to getting film permit.
Now the men playing -- is suing the state claiming it violated his right to free speech.
It was December 2009.
On the top of mount -- not knock.
One of New Hampshire premier tourist attractions.
Group of hikers but a large animal life figure on a ridge -- -- -- won't.
Wasn't -- coming from a cave Warsaw -- on a flat.
Fortunately for the fantasy Klein -- -- just Jonathan Doyle didn't jedi -- I would have rarely horribly afraid that this is sort of performance art which you then post on YouTube.
Yep I posted on YouTube it was -- YouTube posting that got him kicked off now I'm not knock.
Park Rangers here caught that video on the Internet.
When -- returned to shoot a sequel a year later.
He told them now -- you were a film crew and needed a film permit.
What's up with that.
Well you've got to come up with something -- now.
When it when basically it's just a bunch of friends out with a camera Doyle has now hooked up with the American Civil Liberties Union and is suing the Rangers for violating his right to free speech the Rangers say they have a right to make anyone making a film applied for a film permit in this lawyer agrees.
YouTube videos can be considered analogous to a filming because it's widely disseminated to millions of people.
Just based legal argument is that YouTube it's become so big.
That you are now like a Hollywood production.
What do you say to that.
Well I think it's absurd because the way this all started I was just going out my friends to shoot a video now.
I know Hollywood production.
Whether he is are not will soon be decided by New Hampshire Supreme Court which he's expected to rule on the case.
In the next couple weeks that's it from here Heather back to -- That's the great story and I think -- big -- behind you there at least from what I there Heather I sides might -- but I believe they actually go and play.
Thank you surprised.
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