Matt Drudge settles Righthaven copyright lawsuit

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Las Vegas Sun

Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report will likely keep his valuable website domain name after settling a newspaper copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas.

Righthaven, which sues over allegedly unauthorized posts of Las Vegas Review-Journal and Denver Post material, sued Drudge Dec. 8 in U.S. District Court for Nevada, charging a Denver Post “enhanced TSA pat-down photo” was displayed on the Drudge Report website without authorization.

Righthaven later sued 33 more website operators over the same photo in federal courts in Nevada and Colorado.

As in most of its recent lawsuits, Righthaven sought in its complaint against Drudge damages of $150,000 and forfeiture to Righthaven of the drudgereport.com and drudgereportarchives.com website domain names.



Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/feb/16/matt-drudge-settles-righthave-copyright-lawsuit-ou/

[Lucian]

1. Righthaven needs to go and fuck themselves up their collective asses.

[Canuckistanian]

2. Wimp n/t

[gateley]

3. Hate Drudge, but hate Righthaven even more. Hope they keep losing their legal battles. nt

[dkf]

4. Doesn't he just do titles with links?

Why isn't google vulnerable for simply showing these titles in a search?

[RamboLiberal]

8. Because he made mistake of posting TSA pic

From Righthaven client media. Lot of websites getting sued over that pic that went viral.

[zaj]

5. "...and forfeiture to Righthaven of the drudgereport.com..."

Holy crap! How unreasonable and arrogant a demand!

Drudge is an idiot, but I'm on his side on this one.

Wow.

[The Northerner]

7. Although I despise Drudge, I can't tolerate this kind of frivolous litigation

against anyone regardless of political ideology.

[Grassy Knoll]

6. With out Drudge Report.....

Fox news and limpballs couldn't do their schtick, then who would be
responsable for missinformation?