Posted on 10/20/2010 4:44:06 PM PDT by redreno
The Las Vegas Review-Journal online copyright infringement lawsuit campaign sustained a setback Tuesday when a judge granted a real estate agent's motion for dismissal, ruling his posting of part of a Review-Journal story on his website amounted to fair use under copyright law.
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Ha-ha! Almost as good as when a republican beats a democrat!
Ping!
At the very end of the article there’s a list of defendants who arrived at settlement agreements with Righthaven, FreeRepublic being one of them. I didn’t realize FR had settled.
Yes. FR settled. DU is fighting. What’s up with that?
A sound business decision, no doubt. Jim has always believed in the free exchange of ideas. DCMA, while offering some relief in that regard, is not perfect and Righthaven deftly and maliciously navigated between the seams to squeeze as much money as they could from defendants.
There are other defendants who stand a better chance of shutting this slime dog down, and there’s no sense in encouraging Righthaven with a cheap win.
YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those vicious chumps got a beatdown!!
Thanks redreno.
This was definitely good ~ unlike the analysis referenced in the other article I think what happened here was very simple ~ the judge read the article.
8 sentences out of 30 sentences? I'm sure this particular federal judge was prepared to throw the book at Righthaven over that one.
BTW, lest anyone forget it, George Bush was inaugurated in 2005. The next morning the Washington Post claimed a copyright (with the big Circle C mark in fact) on the column containing the inaugural address. There was no content there except that address.
The analysis piece pointed to one of the doctrines regarding news ~ that there are some things that aren't the fruit of your creative juices so you can't copyright them ~ "news", to a degree, being one.
Statements issued by government officials are among those other things you can't copyright either.
What I do when there's an interesting news piece that involves a government agency is go to their website and reference their own piece, and copy their stuff! That does a couple of things of benefit ~ (1) It protects me from some sort of copyright infringement claim, and (2) It helps me do an internal validation of the facts of whatever it was the government agency or official had to say. Many times that will be different than what was reported in the MSM.
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