Posted on 08/05/2010 3:58:24 PM PDT by mnehring
The Righthaven lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas at first glance seem pretty simple: They show bloggers, nonprofits and generally small-time websites around North America for years have been cutting and pasting entire Las Vegas Review-Journal stories on to their websites without authorization.
That seems like obvious copyright infringement. But, as defendants with and without attorneys fight back in some of the cases, Righthaven’s claims don’t appear to be so cut and dried....
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...On July 20, the freerepublic.com message board was filled with “here we go again” comments after users of the site learned it had been sued again, this time by Righthaven. In the new Righthaven case, the stories weren’t posted directly by freerepublic, but by users on its message boards.....
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
Another update on RightHaven lawsuits:
“5 more websites sued over R-J story copyrights”
http://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/aug/10/5-more-websites-sued-over-r-j-story-copyrights/
“Is this ethical. Sounds like something the mob would come up with.”
Stinks bad when one considers the hypothetical possibility for an unscrupulous media outlet to arrange to have copyrighted articles posted on websites for the sole purpose of future lawsuits.
I just cancelled my subscription to the Las Vegas Review Journal in protest to their lawsuit. I hope all other subscribers will cancel also.
I have tried to explain it a number of times to a number of Freepers over a number of years.
Best regards,
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