It's a fact that this jacka$$ is doing this for no other reason that revenue. Claims that it's some sort of campaign to protect anyones copyrights are obviously just cover. The entire method stinks and seems to me should be somehow illegal and fall under a crime of conversion somehow... he's looking for reprints, THEN buying the copyright in order to cash in.
Now that I've said that, it only seems fair that when reposting someones material, it should be a short excerpt and a link to the original publisher. It's the only way they can collect the advertising revenue and continue to post the stuff online that we enjoy reading for free.
I don't think this approach is the right way to deal with the situation. Polite communication between site operators can clear up 99% of these things with no hassles.
I'm like most.. I'd like to see this shark dragging from a bumper somewhere, but we should also be taking into consideration the source of the material... and I'm speaking generally here, not in favor of these two conspirators here who are doing nothing more than strong-arming non-profits and bloggers for a quick buck.
If this guy was reasonable he would send a cease and desist order.
Yes, and the congress set up a routine procedure for doing this. It’s called DMCA and it works great. We’ve received nearly three hundred DMCA take down requests in the last ten years and we’ve promptly and completely complied with each and every such request. If a blogger innocently posts more material than a publisher wishes published, all he has to do is request it be excerpted further or pulled, and we do so. It keeps the federal courts from being clogged up with nickel and dime nuisance suits.
Its called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). It provides a framework for copyright protections in the digital age. Righthaven is completely ignoring the intent of this act by refusing to notify offenders. Of course, if they did this, 99% of site owners would remove the materials and implement procedures to preclude reoccurence. This would put an end to the shakedowns and dry up the revenue stream.
They're suing the people that did that.
Polite communication between site operators can clear up 99% of these things with no hassles.
It's certainly obvious that you just don't get it.
I agree on the practice of doing a short excerpt and a link or do your own commentary, cite the sources, use these “ “ and in the case of videos, thank the person and the source for the video.
But what is going on I am VERY CONCERNED it could produce a chilling effect. Plus I suspect this company is in bigtime financial problems.