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Conservative website among 3 sued over R-J copyrights (Free Republic sued AGAIN)
Las Vegas Sun ^ | Tuesday, July 20, 2010 | 9:12 a.m. | By Steve Green

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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Free Republic; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: copyright; dmca; freerepublic; frinthenews; frivolouslawsuit; lasvegasreview; lvrj; napl; righthaven; righthavenllc; sanctions4plaintiffs; stephensmediagroup; thomasmitchell
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To: KeyLargo

Can FR put “forbidden blockers” much like most of our employers do?


181 posted on 07/20/2010 5:04:32 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: yorkie

John Kerry wanted to give newspapers tax exempt status to try to save them. Some mularkey about freedom of the press when he knew they were in the tank for dems mostly.

If journalists are going to be democratic campaign headquarters and all conservatives will be considered racists, then I hope they all become dinosaurs.

Real Journalism is dead and now they are not to be believed. http://is.gd/dzOo9
http://is.gd/dzP4P


182 posted on 07/20/2010 5:06:37 PM PDT by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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To: mnehring

[In other words, their website encourages article sharing. This sounds like entrapment.]

You should snapshot te page. It isn’t entrapment, but it surely weakens their case.

Why did they think a lawsuit was necessary when they could have simply asked?


183 posted on 07/20/2010 5:17:50 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: DaxtonBrown

I’ve been reading up and it seems that all of this paper’s copyrights were purchased from this one tech company that is solely in the business of suing for infringement.

In other words, the paper doesn’t own the right to their copyrights for the articles in question.

It may not be entrapment but it could be extortion.


184 posted on 07/20/2010 5:23:24 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Jim Robinson
Copyright violation?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:22_kjvDFv2QJ:www.lvrj.com/+Las+Vegas+Review-Journal&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Seems to me that when Google uses its web-cache they could be violating a copyright.

185 posted on 07/20/2010 5:48:17 PM PDT by Principle Over Politics (There is a commie living in the White House!)
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To: Lazamataz

Las Vegas Review (i.e. Harrytown). Ugh.


186 posted on 07/20/2010 6:13:55 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: Jim Robinson
Didn’t even receive a notice or a request. This article is the first I’ve seen of it.

They were so quick to get the story in print, they didn't wait for the defendants to be notified. Geeze...

Sounds like desperation to me, Jim.

187 posted on 07/20/2010 6:14:40 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (We don't have a leader in the Oval Office, we have a reader in the Oval Office.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Should be a pretty quick response, Jim.

This material is not sourced by you, it is sourced and posted by third parties, your action, once notified properly, is to take down offending information after it's been reported. That you offer a proactive tool for publishers to use, that of an automatic screening system which they can participate in, is simply a bonus, and does not excuse the company from not following established DCMA case law or regulations.

The response to the lawsuit should be: Nothing was posted by the defendants to the website from the plaintiff.

188 posted on 07/20/2010 6:37:32 PM PDT by kingu (Favorite Sticker: Lost hope, and Obama took my change.)
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To: Bob J
Deja vu all over again. Some people just don’t learn the lesson.

If you mean by "Some people", Free Republic, the lesson was learned to the point of automated tools to prevent copyright infringement, and rapid moderator response to avoidance of those tools. The plaintiffs, however, need to follow DCMA procedure and law, and they didn't here.

189 posted on 07/20/2010 6:58:16 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: mnehring; Lazamataz; Jim Robinson

It’s more likely in a category of a nuisance or legal harassment lawsuit, i.e. a frivolous lawsuit.

This is characteristic of filing this kind of a civil lawsuit without notification, negotiation and/or allowance of reasonable time for remedial action(s) if applicable.

For one, if it ever gets to that point, the lawsuit could be transferred to California (FR’s location jurisdiction) if Jim decides it could get it dismissed easier.

If this lawsuit goes any farther than the exchange of a few “nasty” legal letters, Jim and John should demand [at least] a recompense of legal expenses in court. Frivolous lawsuits should be punished.


190 posted on 07/20/2010 6:59:46 PM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

My pleasure.


191 posted on 07/20/2010 7:19:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: OafOfOffice
70,000 Blogs Shut Down by U.S. Law Enforcement

Nope, this one was not for violations of fair use.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20010923-261.html

More details are surfacing about why Blogetery.com, a blogging platform that claimed to service more than 70,000 blogs, was mysteriously booted from the Internet by its Web-hosting company.

The site was shut down after FBI agents informed executives of Burst.net, Blogetery's Web host, late on July 9 that links to al-Qaeda materials were found on Blogetery's servers, Joe Marr, chief technology officer for Burst.net, told CNET. Sources close to the investigation say that included in those materials were the names of American citizens targeted for assassination by al-Qaeda. Messages from Osama bin Laden and other leaders of the terrorist organization, as well as bomb-making tips, were also allegedly found on the server.

But Marr said a Burst.net employee erred in telling Blogetery's operator and members of the media that the FBI had ordered it to terminate Blogetery's service. He said Burst.net did that on its own.

192 posted on 07/20/2010 7:20:15 PM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: mnehring

Exactly right. Even if they agreed to settle for the defendants’ cost of defense, with that many lawsuits out there they’d reap a windfall.


193 posted on 07/20/2010 7:22:19 PM PDT by Texas Mulerider (Rap music: hieroglyphics with a beat.)
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To: mnehring
... gotcha, we are going to sue you..

I'll sue you!!

194 posted on 07/20/2010 7:37:06 PM PDT by uglybiker (BACON!!)
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To: Jim Robinson
Here is a link to the lawsuit document: http://www.scribd.com/doc/34611671/RIGHTHAVEN-LLC-v-FREE-REPUBLIC-LLC-1-Complaint-Gov-uscourts-nvd-74859-1-0

Among the multiple things they are demanding in the "Prayer for Relief" section, this caught my eye, on page #9:
3. Direct GKG and any successor domain name registrar for the Domain to lock the Domain and transfer control of the Domain to Righthaven

Reading the above, it seems to my non-lawyer eye that these twits want to shut FR down and to own the FR domain.

Any legal minds want to read and interpret?

195 posted on 07/20/2010 8:21:25 PM PDT by onemiddleamerican (FUBO - and all your terrorist buddies, too!)
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To: justlurking

Where did I post it was about fair use?


196 posted on 07/20/2010 8:29:54 PM PDT by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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To: Lazamataz
Free Republic is being sued for copyright infringement: New Challenge RedMDer and Leapfrog0202 will
197 posted on 07/20/2010 8:30:29 PM PDT by RedMDer (Throw them all out in 2010... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
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To: Lazamataz

Youtube won against Viacom, can’t be responsible for what users post, as long as you act after being alerted to copyright infringement.

Apparently, they have sued 75 sites so this might be their newest revenue generating scheme.


198 posted on 07/20/2010 8:31:17 PM PDT by mainsail that ("A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights" - Napoleon Bonaparte)
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To: RedMDer

I’m in for $10.

Let me know where to send it and how to fill out the check.


199 posted on 07/20/2010 8:46:13 PM PDT by 3D-JOY
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To: onemiddleamerican

That’s how it looks to my non-legal mind also.


200 posted on 07/20/2010 8:51:26 PM PDT by kristinn (I am a footnote in Sean Hannity's new book, Conservative Victory. Pgs 239, 240)
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