Posted on 08/29/2010 4:36:25 PM PDT by Zakeet
Operators of four more websites were hit Thursday with copyright infringement lawsuits alleging material from the Las Vegas Review-Journal was posted on the sites without authorization.
The suits bring to 107 the number of copyright infringement lawsuits filed since March over online postings of Review-Journal stories.
The suits are filed by Las Vegas company Righthaven LLC, which looks for online infringements of Review-Journal stories, obtains copyrights for those stories and then sues the alleged offenders.
The latest suits, like the others, were filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas. They each seek damages of $75,000 and forfeiture of the defendants’ website domain names to Righthaven.
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Love to watch dinosaur media destroy themselves. So easy a caveman could do it.
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**So easy a caveman could do it.**
They haven’t come after you for this ^^^ yet???
From now on all LVRJ threads should be marked HUMOR and all posts be based on SCORN, Ridicule and SATIRE!
This will continue until folks in Vegas call and cancel their subscriptions. At that point, the business side of the paper will question the wisdom of this idea. The other side of this fight would be interesting if the ACLU would take up the fight against the paper, and draw the paper’s legal team into a vast fight...taking up hundreds of man-hours...and forcing them to come to individual states to accomplish any kind of legal tasking.
Several FR links via google: site:www.freerepublic.com Righthaven "Stephens Media"
In regards to content, it is, however, they are real trolls in regards to stuff like this. They have gone after right, left, and neutral publications and groups in their little scam.
So they are claiming damages for infringements prior to their ownership of the copyright?
Do prior tacit permissions survive sales?
I would love for somebody to comb these copyrighted stories for evidence of plagiarism/copyright violations of their own.
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