Las Vegas Sun is one of the news papers who sell their articles into the hell called Righthaven. FR had a tiff with them before. Is it wise to show anything from Las Vegas Sun on FR? (Not picking on you redreno — I would have thought the software for copyright rule enforcement would catch this.)
In the last week or so, I’ve seen where Righthaven has been bitch-slapped by a federal judge for what it’s been up to.
The judge even found full articles to be reproduced without permission to be fair use. It’s something I’ve always thought was right. How can you have fair discussion of issues, if you have to pay $9.95 a month to every periodical in the nation just to see a full airing of the issues?
While I do see an intrinsic unfairness to periodicals here, the need for the populace to be informed trumps IMO. How can you and I address the problems of the nation, if every news report is immediately under lock and seal post publication?
Here, I found this:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/fair-use-defense/
It was the Las Vegas Review Journal.