Posted on 12/05/2010 5:01:59 PM PST by redreno
Las Vegas-based newspaper copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC is now doing business with Media News Group and has sued a blogger for alleged copyright infringement involving a column from the Media News-owned Denver Post.
An attorney for Righthaven filed the suit Thursday in federal court in Charleston, S.C. This appears to be the first lawsuit Righthaven has filed in a federal court outside of Nevada, where since March it has filed 179 copyright infringement lawsuits.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
Heads up folks...
Some of these so called “lawyers” would pimp their own mother to make a buck.
I have tried to find a listing of the websites Right Haven has taken down... but I haven’t been able to find a complete listing... just articles about individual sites. Does anyone happen to have one?
This seems very worrisome to me...
Correct me if I am wrong - but didn’t the Denver Post own the Rocky Mountain News at the time of its passing?
This kind of pulling up the drawbridge strikes me as very risky. The trade off between wider dissemination of the “Denver Post” brand (the status quo) and squeezing every penny of copyright revenues by tight control and surveillance may not work the way they think. They might achieve zero copyright infringements at just about the same moment they go completely out of business.
Suddenly everyone discovered advertisers would pay and consumers could access the content at low or no cost.
Sounds like the same plan would work for everything else.
Best regards,
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