Posted on 07/20/2010 11:52:30 AM PDT by Lazamataz
A conservative news-sharing website with plenty of experience in dealing with copyright issues has been sued for copyright infringement after Las Vegas Review-Journal stories allegedly were posted on its site.
Free Republic LLC, James C. Robinson and John Robinson, who are associated with the website www.freerepublic.com in Fresno, Calif., were sued in federal court in Las Vegas on Monday over the postings.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
And the Dinosaur Media wonders why it’s the Dinosaur Media...
I saw this earlier but this is the part I don't get:
Court records indicate users of that website this year posted a dozen R-J stories, columns and editorials, with the R-J being credited as the source of the information.
I don't see what the problem is, legally speaking.
Apparently Righthaven is trolling newspapers and other publishers and trying to drum up business for their copyright lawfirm. Apparently the owner of the trolling law firm is:
Steven A. Gibson
10645 Sun Blower Ave.
Las Vegas, NV 89135
(702) 541-8200
I'd post his Picture but it's probably copyrighted.
Good luck. Maybe after this current freepathon you can get going on a defense fund.
Wow. Harry Reid is a dirty campaigner.
It would be an interesting find to see if any of those who posted articles from that paper, did so from IP addresses belonging to that paper.
I hope you are right about that!
Check out Righthaven LLC v. NORML.
It seems that Righthaven doesn’t have the best record when these things actually get to court.
I bet, as previously stated, they hope most of these just accept out of court settlements thinking that site owners would just pony up a settlement than spend the time and money to fight it.
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Websites being sued, blogs being shut down. I think we are missing the bigger picture here.
70,000 Blogs Shut Down by U.S. Law Enforcement
One would think they had to offer the contract in order to be 'harmed' by failure to sign an agreement.
Sue first, ask questions later is hardly the way to conduct business.
We'd have gladly not had a bloody thing to do with them if they requested it. That failure to make their grievance known prior to entering into court action may be the weakest link in their case, aside from Fair Use.
Want to save this for future reading - right now, all I can say is WOW!
They are suing No Quarter too.
And I, with the same bonafides as Lazamataz (though not nearly as long...) can testify as well.
I wonder if the Journal review is going bankrupt?!?!
This regime has the money $$$$ and the power with the FCC and other forms of media, including the press..
and now with the latest of their—press—deliberate attack on the right and the manipulation of the Bamster’s past during the election...They want NO ONE to spread the news.
I wonder that about a lot of newspapers. In Arizona, the Republic was a thick paper just one year ago, (and cost 25 cents in the machine).........today, it is thin as a wafer, (and costs A DOLLAR in the machine.)
Dane-Geld
A.D. 980-1016
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: —
“We invaded you last night—we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ‘em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: —
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: —
“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!”
—Rudyard Kipling
http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/dane_geld.html
Okay, go down to the “potential damages” and read from there.
potential damages total just $85.55
litigation machine
I cannot tell you when the last time was that I read an actual hardcopy newspaper.
Keep playing by their rules and they will put themselves out of business because only the locals know they are there.
Works for me....
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