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4 more sites sued over alleged R-J copyright infringements.
Las Vegas Sun ^
| Published Thursday, May 20, 2010 | 9:27 a.m.
| By Steve Green
Posted on 05/20/2010 6:10:40 PM PDT by redreno
Four more website operators were hit with copyright infringement lawsuits Wednesday and Thursday alleging they copied and displayed Las Vegas Review-Journal stories without authorization.
In one case filed in Las Vegas federal court, Righthaven LLC sued Portside Inc., a New York City nonprofit, and Portside official Barry Cohen, alleging that in February they posted on Portside's website a Review-Journal story about layoffs.
Righthaven is a Las Vegas company that this year obtained copyrights to Review-Journal stories and has now sued 18 website operators claiming they infringed on those copyrights by posting -- without authorization -- R-J stories.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
TOPICS: Free Republic Policy/Q&A; Local News
KEYWORDS: copyright; dmca; jpb; lvrj; nevada; reviewjournal; righthaven; righthavenllc; stephensmediagroup; thomasmitchell
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posted on
05/20/2010 6:10:40 PM PDT
by
redreno
To: redreno
Doesn’t fair use come into it?
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posted on
05/20/2010 6:12:33 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: driftdiver
Don’t know. However, I’ve stop using articles from this news paper. Until an FR admin gives the okay. I just wanted to give others a heads up.
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posted on
05/20/2010 6:14:45 PM PDT
by
redreno
(Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
To: redreno; Jim Robinson
So I guess R-J is a no-no for FR?
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posted on
05/20/2010 6:24:10 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Political Correctness Kills)
To: driftdiver
Doesn’t fair use come into it?
Reprinting of entire articles is generally not considered fair use. That's why you see for the most part on Free Republic excerpts with links to the original source. That way the source gets the traffic it deserves for having spent its resources to create the article.
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posted on
05/20/2010 7:11:14 PM PDT
by
drjimmy
To: redreno
R-J? For a minute, I thought this was a Rick James thread.
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posted on
05/20/2010 7:15:55 PM PDT
by
Hoodat
(.For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
To: GeronL
Yep, no more Las Vegas PU-Urinal.
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posted on
05/20/2010 7:24:28 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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