Righthaven hits (Ars Technica) journalist with infringement lawsuit

[Newsjock]

Source: Las Vegas Sun

The writer of a story about Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC is now being sued by Righthaven.

Righthaven, which sues over Las Vegas Review-Journal and Denver Post material posted online without authorization, filed suit Friday in Denver against Eriq Gardner, author of a December story on the Ars Technica website.

The story was about a Righthaven lawsuit against Matt Drudge over a Denver Post TSA pat-down photo.

... The Ars Technica report credited the image from the Drudge Report like this: "The photo in question as it appeared on Drudge Report."

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/mar/28/righthaven-hits-journalist-infringement-lawsuit/

[wtmusic]

1. I guess they didn't like being id'ed as "copyright trolls"

In my opinion, that's very funny. :D

[Downwinder]

2. Isn't that photo a matter of public record?. It has been included in

multiple court records.

[DeSwiss]

3. K&R

- The RightHaven business model:

Righthaven goes to war in the name of tough copyright enforcement and winds up with a ruling that complete republication by some nonprofits falls under the scope of fair use. "Some 250 Righthaven lawsuits later, Righthaven's startling achievement is that newspapers now have less—not more—protection from copyright infringers..." (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/copyright-troll-righthaven-achieves-spectacular-fair-use-loss.ars">link)

[comtec]

4. LoL oh lord...talkabout poking the bee's nest

A LOT of hackers read Ars Technica, and have since it was a BBS!
:pop corn:
this is going to be good.
Putting aside the complete inanity of it all, and the illegality of this suit, I'd be surprised is they don't get hacked out of existence, let alone the backlash from what has to be a frustrated court system!

[LiberalFighter]

5. I hope the attornies connected with Righthaven lose their law license.

[JackRiddler]

6. Nah, I hope they go to work for the RIAA and MPAA and destroy those, too.

[fantomas]

7. All your photo are belong to us!