Posted on 08/04/2010 6:55:37 AM PDT by rellimpank
When it comes to fighting copyright theft in the news industry — the piracy of stories, editorials, columns, photos and videos — there are watchdogs and there are attack dogs.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal and its copyright enforcement partner, a Las Vegas startup called Righthaven LLC, are squarely in the attack-dog category.
In a strategic campaign that is attracting growing interest nationwide in legal and media circles, Righthaven — without warning — has sued at least 86 website owners in federal court in Las Vegas since March for copyright infringement.
Such aggressiveness is unusual in the newspaper industry because most newspapers have acted like watchdogs — playing nice but firm with copyright infringers by asking them to take down their stories and replace them with links that direct readers to the source newspaper. That softball tactic avoids wasting money and time on lawyers and lawsuits, and turns copyright infringers into allies who drive traffic to newspaper websites.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
I will make it a point to no longer frequent those websites.
I hope their advertisers appreciate my commitment to stopping the scourge of....what was it called again?....copyright something or other? Whatever. I will do my part.
I’m betting that some of the stories Righthaven buys to secure the copyright themselves have sentences that could be sourced to already written articles. It’s likely that anything written has already been written somewhere. An enterprising person could do their own research into a Righthaven copyrighted article and find a previously published article using the verbiage. That enterprising person could then acquire the copyright to the original document and then commence to suing Righthaven for copyright infringement. A couple such episodes should serve to establish a pattern.
Avoid all contact with this Mickey Mouse Las Vegas rag and its crooked shyster like the plague.
brilliant!
Ping.
—ping—and I don’t know how to spell”Sun”—
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