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.
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Well, whaddya know? Even a broken clock is right twice a day, LOL. Good on the DUmmies, let Righthaven twist in the wind for legal fees!
I’ll be darned. I just clicked the Denver Post’s share link on the article in question and presto, their photo is now published on my facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000520152687
Hope I’m not impacting their market for their copyrighted photo. Would hate for them to sue me.
IME, if I have tried to post from any of these (innocently, I swear) it’s been bounced back to me saying it’s not allowed...is that still true? The FR bots will automatically cancel your post if any of these verboten sites are listed as the source?
Not sure. Seems to be.
Well, you know how screwy them PeTA folks can be.
Where there’s smoke...
We need a hunting season for lawyers. Just to cull the herd, if you will. The overpopulation of that species is destroying the planet.
Exhibit 1: Hornets nest.
Exhibit 2: Lawyer with a baseball bat.
Exhibit 3: Popcorn and a free show for us.
Time to put Janet Napolitano on the spot ~ a question for her: "Is it the policy of the United States Government to provide commercial use releases to pictures of its security employees so that lawsuits may be lodged against third parties who might also use those pictures?
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