Suing Your Readers for Spite and Profit

[ProudDad]

This month's issue of Fair's Extra...

"Righthaven LLC has emerged from the ongoing meltdown of the newspaper industry with a new business model: sue the hell out of every person who reprints, in part or in full, any article without the express consent of the article’s copyright owner."

McCue’s motion (7/9/10) described Righthaven as “a ‘copyright troll’—an entity formed for the sole purpose of acquiring copyrights of allegedly infringed articles published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal and then suing, without prior notice, any website operator whose site contains any portion of the article.” It noted several legal justifications for Skyscraper-City, “including fair use, de minimis copying and implied license.”

The court recognized the possible merits of these defenses to the Righthaven allegations and set aside the motion for default judgment. The case is ongoing.


More at:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4199

Don't want to get sued :evilgrin:

[SidDithers]

1. Might want to Google Democraticunderground and Righthaven...

just so you can get caught up.

Sid

[ProudDad]

2. I posted 'cause I thought folks would like more background

on the predators who are doing the suing...

Just read my edition of Extra! this morning...

[TexasObserver]

3. I predict Righthaven will be sanctioned by the judge and costs awarded DU.

DU called their hand on this nonsense, and has moved for costs, including their attorneys fees. I believe DU's motion is sound and will be granted. The remaining question is whether the judge will use the occasion to spank Righthaven publicly, as would be appropriate, by imposing additional monetary sanctions.