The Washington Free Beacon has been banned from the University of Arkansas’s special collections archives. Why? It published two stories about Hillary Clinton using material from said archives. The Free Beacon reports:
The ban came days after the Free Beacon ran a story about Clinton’s 1975 defense of a child rapist that drew from audio recordings available at the University of Arkansas library’s special collections archives.
Library dean Carolyn Henderson Allen informed editor-in-chief Matthew Continetti in a June 17 letter that the library had “officially suspended” the Free Beacon‘s research privileges.
The Free Beacon published the Hillary Papers, drawn from the archive of the late Clinton confidante Diane Blair, in February. Those papers are also housed in the special collections at the University of Arkansas.
“I am writing you to direct you and the Washington Beacon Press to cease and desist your ongoing violation of the intellectual property rights of the University of Arkansas with regard to your unauthorized publication of audio recordings obtained from the Roy Reed Collection,” wrote Allen.
Allen claims the Free Beacon “violated library rules by failing to submit a form requesting permission to publish the materials.”
The Free Beacon has responded via its lawyers, stating that the library “required no agreement to be signed prior to receiving them.” They also note that the dean did not “quote or cite” the policy in question, or spell out how the Free Beacon is bound to it.
Dean Allen contributed $500 to Hillary Clinton’s presidential run back in 2007.
h/t to Instapundit.
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