Posted on 08/22/2011 3:31:16 AM PDT by rellimpank
Another heavily-litigated Righthaven LLC copyright infringement lawsuit has been dismissed because of Righthaven’s lack of standing to sue over Las Vegas Review-Journal content.
U.S. District Judge Kent Dawson in Las Vegas on Friday dismissed Righthaven’s lawsuit against Bill Hyatt, who was sued last October over allegations he posted without authorization an R-J column on his website 1ce.org, which was called “News for Everyone.”
This was the seventh such dismissal since June 14.
The suit was among 275 filed by Righthaven since March 2010 involving material from the R-J and the Denver Post. Righthaven spots alleged online infringements, obtains copyright assignments from the newspapers and then sues the alleged infringers on a retroactive basis and without warning or a takedown
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Interesting.
Righthaven just keeps getting smacked.
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