Posted on 12/09/2010 10:48:17 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC on Wednesday filed its second copyright infringement lawsuit over Denver Post material, this time suing a big target: Drudge Report operator Matt Drudge.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for Nevada, charges a Nov. 18 Denver Post "illustration" called "Transportation Security Administration agents perform enhanced pat-downs" was posted without authorization the same day on the Drudge Report website as well as the drudgereportarchives.com site.
A court exhibit, however, indicates the illustration is actually a Denver Post photograph of a TSA officer patting down a passenger at Denver International Airport. Righthaven usually sues over unauthorized online postings of news stories, columns and editorials. Lately it has sued over alleged infringements involving graphics and, now, a photograph.
"Mr. Drudge has willfully engaged in the copyright infringement of the work," Wednesday's lawsuit charges.
A message for comment was left with Drudge, who was sued personally, as well as codefendant drudgereportarchives.com.
Righthaven since March has now filed at least 181 copyright infringement lawsuits against website operators and bloggers. It usually sues over Las Vegas Review-Journal material. An affiliate of Stephens Media LLC, owner of the Review-Journal, is an investor in Righthaven. Last week, Righthaven started suing over Denver Post material.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
Update:
Is this the photo Drudge is being sued over?
TSA agent giving a pat-down at an airport:
Looks like an excellent subscription boycott list!
If so, I think that photo was displayed on thousands of news and blog sites. Righthaven’s going to have a busy day.
Do you think we should cool it with all but public domain pictures?
I think Drudge will be fine. He was just reporting and linking to the factual news of the day. The photo itself was news. Kind of like a photo of the Perl Harbor attack or of the Trade Center on 9/11. It’s a photo of an attack on freedom itself.
Its a photo of an attack on freedom itselfBingo, that's the crux of it right there.
Jim, would FR have any interest in hosting a RightHaven Client HOSTS blocklist boycott list that can be auto-updated through various freeware HOSTS management software? It would make a definitive statement..
Easier file to add to HOSTS file:
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BTTT. That's an excellent list to add to a hosts file.
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In all probability, you don’t own the rights to the articles you wrote.
Between you, Don Surber, and a few other really quality journalists who work/freelance for RightsHaven clients I’m really disturbed by this trend.
Don Surber is now on the no excerpt list for FR, the guy is on e of the good guys and should be getting viral click-thrus from online forums, his dinosaur employers are now inhibiting his ability to contribute to the intellectual conversation in the Anglosphere.
Drudge can hurt them(Right haven, and anyone involved with them) bad if he wants to. And I hope he does.
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I neglected to include my TV appearances and TV ads of yore -
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kewt!
pedophiles?!?!?
Thanks for the list of hosts. I have posted to the bloggergate file.
Copies of this photo are posted on hundreds of web sites.
111710_PATDOWN_CFW- by a Transportation Security Administration agent while passing through security at Denver International Airport in Denver, CO, November 17, 2010. (Craig F. Walker/ The Denver Post)
The picture I saw had Bawney Fwanks head on it
Isn’t it odd that on this page, the Denver Post invites you to share their information, which contradicts what they say in their “Terms of Use”?
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_16694500
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