[Lazamataz]

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.

[Bob J]

True, but then how did those slip through? After reading the complaint this doesn't look good. It appears the newspaper sold the rights to the story to an outside agency for the explicit purpose of filing suits to generate cash settlements. Kind of like a debt company selling their bad loans to debt collectors. They're not going to go away until they get some money and will threaten to go back in the archives and increase the amount they demand 10-fold. I think the absence if a cease and desist supports this theory.

My advice to Jim after the LA Times episode was to link and excerpt EVERYTHING. It's not up to the copyright holder to demand you not post their full articles, their copyright protection is intact when it is published. If L&E wasn't insisted on all, eventually this was bound to happen.