[mnehring]

Oh great, now the sharks are going after individual posters on message boards, not just the sites. They are even going after posters on boards they already sued and settled with.

[mnehring]

ping

[Netizen]

Higgins, according to Righthaven, posts as Jim_Higgins on a Google Groups message board. Records indicate that on Nov. 21 he posted a Review-Journal column about Transportation Security Administration pat downs of the elderly and disabled at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. The post credited columnist John L. Smith but didn't credit the Review-Journal, records show.

Here's an instance where the originating source wasn't given, just like that jerk blogger kept doing at FR a week or so back.

[gwilhelm56]

LVRJ (closest I will get to the actual name)

You are ...Obsolete.
Sentence ... Death by Obscurity!

[SnuffaBolshevik]

Send my subpoena to Schultz, Ed, c/o MSNBC.

[proxy_user]

It would not be difficult to blackhole the Journal-Review.

For example, Google could just remove it from their searches. “We don’t want to infringe your copyright! What, no readers can find you now? Well, that’s not our problem...”

[Netizen]

Righthaven, which is half owned by an affiliate of Review-Journal owner Stephens Media LLC, says its lawsuits, typically filed without warning, are necessary to crack down on rampant online infringement of newspaper stories, columns, editorials, photos and graphics.

I'm beginning to wonder if this 'rampant' infringement is due to blogging. If they don't give a link to an originating source, you wouldn't know if they wrote said article or not. I'd bet there are cases where bloggers don't cite the actual source and in that case they should get into trouble.

[smokingfrog]

The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright-Troll Lawsuits

So how is an individual poster supposed to do this?

[Darren McCarty]

I don’t think there’s anything they can hit me on, but you want to take me on, I’ll have a pro-bono attorney, and we will procedurally delay, delay, delay, and drain your coffers in attorneys fees. I’ll have some real fun with the discoveries. All my stuff is protected anyway, so as DX used to say. I got two words for you! Suck it!

[fruser1]

They play the settlement game.

Go for a jury trial. Defend yourself there.

[Free Vulcan]

Nobody should allow them to put anything so much as a name on their website without threat of a lawsuit.

[Jim Robinson]

If there’s ever any doubt, keep your excerpts brief. It’s my understanding that non-commercial fair use allows anyone to quote portions of copyrighted material for criticism or commentary. But they’re always trying to make it tough on us peons.

[rawhide]

OP, expect to be sued by ‘Wrong’haven for using their name in your post. I have avoided the lawsuit by changing their name in my post.

[OCCASparky]

Oh, damn. Guess it’s gonna be a real PITA if your posters are behind proxies. Good luck with that, Righthaven.

[Political Junkie Too]

What are they going to do about posters who live in foreign countries? Extradite them?

-PJ

[BuckeyeTexan]

JimRob,

They will have to subpoena you in order to obtain our personal identities or contact information, correct?

[GraceG]

They do this and all of sudden message boards will have “post as anonymous” option.

[Marty62]

They are even going after posters on boards they already sued and settled with.

How can they do this?

Obviously they have turned this into a business. Has nothing to do with the Law.

[Vaquero]

Mr. Snrub Here.....

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Will we ever have tort reform in this country?

[Domandred]

And yet their webpages still have share links for the large social networking sites.