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.
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Is Orly Taitz available?
Harry is quite a Christian, you know. s/
Post #26. :(
Beat me to it.
Vin, if you’re in here, have a talk with your boss.
Sounds like a newspaper in financial trouble attempting the “revenue through litigation” approach.
Oh yeah.
Apparently what goes on in Las Vegas Review-Journal stays in Vegas.
A google search found them
Did someone actually post the whole text of one of thweir stories? Or, is this some dirty trick to try contravening ‘Fair Use’, as a way to attack their enemies and make money by doing so? How much are they making in awards from all these suits?
This is one area of law where you might think conservatives and liberals both agree. It's surprising that the Supreme Court hasn't found the right case to set some specific guidelines with respect to what qualifies as "fair use". YouTube just won against Viacom with very similar circumstances at play in this case, and you might think that would be helpful here.
I'm not a 1A attorney and I'm not very familiar with the complexities of the relevant statutes and case law, but I'm not quite sure why Digital Millennium Copyright Act, doesn't insulate FreeRepublic and other similar sites from just these kinds of claims.
In any event, I think it deeply cuts against the 1st Amendment when business who exist ONLY because of the 1st Amendment use copyright laws to stifle (presumably) criticism of either themselves, or the people they cover.
My understanding is they have but to ask to be on the list, and you make it so instantly. You’ve been very compliant with the policy established last go-round. They’re trying to re-adjudicate a settled case.
Maybe JimRob can just steer them to Jim Thompson? I thought it was reported that Thompson was really in charge.
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Good catch!
Do a screencap quick. Seems like that would be implied consent, doesn’t it?
I was in Vegas a few months ago. I got the standard USA Today at my door. I don't recall seeing a single place to even buy a LVR-J or any other rag for that matter.
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Which list are they demanding they be added to? Do not excerpt? Or Excerpt only?
3 suits over alleged R-J copyright infringements bring total to 72 (7-16-10)
5 more suits filed over alleged R-J copyright violations (7-15-10)
Nevada Democratic Party hit with R-J copyright lawsuit (7-9-10)
5 more websites face R-J copyright lawsuits (7-8-10)
Six more suits filed over R-J copyrights (7-1-10)
Three more websites hit with R-J copyright suits (6-29-10)
R-J copyright suit filed against newspaper source (6-25-10)
3 more R-J copyright suits filed; defendant responds (6-10-10)
8 more websites sued over R-J copyrights; 34 total (6-5-10)
Former news anchor among targets of new R-J copyright suits (5-30-10)
4 more copyright suits over R-J stories brings total to 22 (5-28-10)
4 more sites sued over alleged R-J copyright infringements (5-20-10)
14th website sued over R-J copyright allegations (5-17-10)
More suits over alleged R-J copyrights bring number to 13 (5-14-10)
Suits accuse groups of posting copyrighted R-J stories (5-5-10)
Two more websites sued over posting of R-J stories (5-3-10)
Sixth copyright suit filed over R-J stories on websites (4-26-10)
3 copyright suits filed over R-J stories on Web sites (4-16-10)
Suits accuse 2 groups of posting copyrighted R-J stories online (3-17-10)
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