Posted on 11/18/2010 10:50:04 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Copyright troll Righthaven this week promised to narrow its lawsuit campaign in the face of a courtroom defeat, when a judge ruled that a real estate website made “fair use” of a newspaper article from the Las Vegas-Review Journal.
Righthaven is the lawyer-heavy company based in Las Vegas that sprang to life last spring for the sole purpose of suing blogs and websites that repost, or even excerpt, Las Vegas-Review Journal articles without permission. It has filed about 150 lawsuits, and settled dozens of them in its favor.
But the company reached a snag when the Realty One Group fought back, winning a summary dismissal weeks ago. A Nevada judge agreed with the real estate firm’s argument that eight of 30 sentences from a Review Journal story about the real estate market qualified as fair use of the material.
With that precedent set, Righthaven no longer plans to sue websites for posting brief excerpts of newspaper articles...
(Excerpt) Read more at wired.com ...
Just the facts, Ma’am.
Nice!
In other news, a new group “Havenright” has sprung up to start the lawsuits all over. (/sarc or /prediction)
LV-RJ should die a quick death, in OBSCURITY!
I’ll look for another source for corroboration. If I have to quote the LV-RJ, I won’t run the thread or blog.
I’d have more confidence quoting the “National Enquirer”
Looks like somebody pulled some strings!
‘Copyright troll’ Righthaven looks to dismiss suit against Democratic Underground
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/copyright-troll-righthaven-dismiss-suit-democratic-underground/
Ping
Sounds like some good News!!
Refund headed your way?
THe ambulance chasing retards got a bit too much pushback, it seems.
Is FR in the clear now also??
If you settled with Righthaven, I hope you didn’t give up anything but a promise to cease-and-desist.
lol....I love how Wired flat-out labels them trolls.
Well.. at least it isn’t a blog!
I still wouldn’t get anywhere near them or any of their represented rags.
Only dinosaur inclined media would think they were doing themselves a favor in a digital age by banning everyone from using their material.
Well, that’s true.
My question is, do they publish anything that’s even worth reading?
LVRJ and Stephens Media recently underwent a rather extensive leadership shake up. That usually doesn’t happen when sales and revenues are humming right along. I suspect that their decision to covey up with Righthaven was an enormous business boo boo.
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