This will be another interesting case to watch.
Righthaven is about to wear out try the Court’s patience.
Bill Shakespeare was right about “lawyers”.
Somewhere amongst these 117 lawsuits is a defendant with the money, the argument, and the gumption to put up a credible defense and allow the courts to put a stop to this nonsense. If that doesn’t happen then much of the internet and what little is left of the newspaper business will be very seriously harmed.
Many of these lawsuits are against tiny hobby and public service blogs, the kind your grandmother would write, and that no one ever even looks at.
Righthaven sustained no injury since they did not own the copyright.
I wonder what would happen if one or more of the defendents in this action, sought descovery of ALL employees of Righthaven, Stephens bunch and LVRJ. And I mean ALL.
The purpose being to check data base to ascertain if any articles were posted by said employees. Since this appears to be a money making scheme, this would be a logical trail to investigate.
Righthaven is like that despicable attorney in Florida who’s gotten rich on foreclosures. This isn’t about justice, it’s about money.
Righthaven is engaging in these copyright suits more as a matter of suppressing opinion, than any intellectual property defense, making people afraid to make a statement and quoting authorative accounts, in the hopes of putting the Internet genie back in the bottle.
Malefactors of great wealth have now turned to supporting the control of the flow of information, all of a piece with the nuisance lawsuits and the ad hominem obfuscations they are throwing up against Sharron Angle. Righthaven is the spokesman and foremost defender of the status quo that supports Harry Reid, and they are using intimidation to try to win their point. Bullies in the schoolyard are the same everywhere, and they will not desist until somebody stands up to them.
Curiouser and curiouser....
I don’t know how a Judge will rule on any of these legal points, but if Righthaven is not stopped other lawyers will pile on using the same methods. Courts will overflow with these suits.