Righthaven defendant in new dispute over Las Vegas casino image

[Newsjock]

Source: Vegas Inc (Las Vegas Sun)

Righthaven lawsuit figure Brian D. Hill has been accused of copyright infringement again – this time involving an image of a Las Vegas casino.

... In his latest skirmish over copyrights, Hill said Sunday that a satire image he placed on Yahoo Inc.’s Flickr.com site was removed by Flickr after online travel website Destination360.com complained the image infringed on its copyright. The image shows slot machines in what Destination360 suggests is a Las Vegas hotel-casino.

Hill said he digitally altered the image, changing a sign pointing to a hotel tower to say "Wall Street" and adding an image of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke saying "Welcome to the Wall St. Casino" and commentary from gamblers such as "Ah damn! Lost my family home, ""Bye bye, Main Street" and "I am now in total debt."

"Because of my political beliefs I made the satire based on what I know was true," Hill said Sunday. "I feel like Wall Street has become like a casino because people lose and win money there, so when people lose money they may lose their family home. That is why I chose a casino setting for the satire. I was never intending to make any casino look bad. If that casino got the wrong idea about my political satire, that was never my intent."

Read more: http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2011/may/29/righthaven-defendant-new-dispute-over-las-vegas-ca/

[aquart]

1. Right of Parody. WTF is the matter with these horse thieves?

[greiner3]

2. I think this is ironic;

Because it forces Righthaven to defencd itself for the same acts it is suing so many others for doing. If anything it will further deplete Righthaven's coffers.