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  • Righthaven now working with Media News, sues over Denver Post column

    12/05/2010 5:01:59 PM PST · by redreno · 5 replies
    Las Vegas Sun ^ | Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010 | 2:05 a.m. | By Steve Green
    Las Vegas-based newspaper copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC is now doing business with Media News Group and has sued a blogger for alleged copyright infringement involving a column from the Media News-owned Denver Post. An attorney for Righthaven filed the suit Thursday in federal court in Charleston, S.C. This appears to be the first lawsuit Righthaven has filed in a federal court outside of Nevada, where since March it has filed 179 copyright infringement lawsuits.
  • The Citizen-Journalist's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use on the Internet [FR mentioned]

    11/21/2010 9:41:22 AM PST · by liberty33 · 8 replies
    Policy Journal ^ | November 21, 2010 | Matt Danko
    The libertarian position on intellectual property that is most commonly recited is perhaps the most extreme: the outright abolition of copyright as a relic of the past. Though certainly dramatic and not without some merit, the absence of some sort of copyright protection for creators reeks a little too much of Marxist collectivism by denying, if not vilifying, the profit motive. Hence, a more prudent reconciliation between Article I and Amendment I is in order. It is the purpose of this essay to articulate a standard by which to promote, through practice, an expansion of fair use, specifically as it...