The judge presiding over an antitrust lawsuit against Apple has
denied media outlets’ request to release a deposition from Steve Jobs
recorded six months before the Apple founder succumbed to cancer in
2011. The video is among the last times Jobs appeared on film before his
death.
District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled
that the public already had sufficient access to the footage, which was
played in the courtroom and transcribed for the public record. Enabling
media outlets to copy and distribute the tape could infringe on the
privacy rights of the defendant, Rogers ruled, adding that misuses of
the tape could have a chilling effect on future depositions.
“If releases of video depositions routinely occurred,” she wrote, “witnesses might be reticent to submit voluntarily to video depositions in the future, knowing they might one day be publicly broadcast.”
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