BC cries foul after footage is used in video by Paul Ryan

House Speaker Paul Ryan may need to put his plans for fixing the tax code aside, and instead brush up on his copyright law.

Boston College officials said this week that Ryan apparently purloined a snippet of footage shot by a college employee during a graduation ceremony, using it in his own promotional video released last week without getting the school’s permission.

On April 18, eight days before President Trump released his tax overhaul proposal, Ryan shared on Twitter a one-minute video about his own thoughts for simplifying the US tax code.

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