Posted on 09/10/2010 5:59:45 AM PDT by rellimpank
A quick settlement has been reached in a copyright infringement lawsuit pitting Righthaven LLC against the largest public relations company in Las Vegas.
Righthaven is a Las Vegas company that regularly sues website operators it says have infringed on copyrighted material generated by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Righthaven filed suit Sept. 1 against Kirvin Doak Communications and partners Dave Kirvin and Bill Doak alleging a Review-Journal story had been posted on the Kirvin Doak website without authorization.
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Terms of the settlement weren’t disclosed...
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It would be interesting in knowing if these settlements include the relinquishing of 1st amendment rights?
/johnny
It’s very important that nobody give into this. If enough do, copyright trolls will spring up everywhere and you won’t be able to even discuss a news article online without fear of getting hit with a lawsuit.
In some of the other cases, Righthaven wants to take away their domain name. So they are not only looking for $$, they apparently do want to keep people from expressing their views.
If such settlements are proposed. How can SNY judge sanction such settlements that are clearly unconstitutional. I know Dum/ Leftie judges would do it but that still doesn’t make it acceptable.
Isn’t Righthaven threatening Jim Robinson and Free Republic?
Conservative website among 3 sued over R-J copyrights (Free Republic sued AGAIN)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2555968/posts
Righthaven filed suit Sept. 1 against Kirvin Doak Communications and partners Dave Kirvin and Bill Doak alleging a Review-Journal story had been posted on the Kirvin Doak website without authorization.
Well I think we can be sure it was more than $0.00 and less than $75,000 and surrender of domain name.
By agreeing to a settlement and surrender of website domain it effectively shuts down freedom of speech.
Yes, imo any judge that approves a settlement based on violations of 1st amendment rights should be impeached.
And it is sort of extortion, that if a party does not agree to relinquishing that right, they will be subjected to expensive Lawsuits.
This whole thing smells to high heaven. And then Lawyers wonder why people have such a low opinion of the profession.
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