So I've been gone a week - what's happening with the lawsuit against DU from RightHaven?

[Hawkeye-X]

Have they dropped the case due to stupidity?

[no limit]

1. First time I'm hearing for this. Wut?

[Skink]

2. You mean about that unrec feature?

[Angry Dragon]

3. I know nothing

[liberalhistorian]

4. What lawsuit? What is Righthaven?

Wow, I sure seem like an old fuddy-duddy this morning, I guess! But seriously, what's the deal?

[pscot]

5. Here's a link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8936449

[femmocrat]

6. OK, everyone, Do Not use quotes from RightHaven!

Not that any of us would cite a source with such an ominous name!

[notadmblnd]

7. Ok, but tell me- what will keep them from posting here themselves?

it's entirely possible that they have people planting material from their site on DU just so they can sue.

[RamboLiberal]

8. Actually don't post from Las Vegas Review-Journal

Or any of the podunk papers the Stephens Media group owns. I've been googling any papers I post from that I don't know first to make sure Stephens Media doesn't owe them.

I sure hope DU is among those fighting Righthaven.

The Las Vegas Sun, Wired and Techdirt have been doing a great job of covering these suits.

New defenses are being asserted by websites and bloggers facing copyright infringement lawsuits for online postings of material from the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The Review-Journal's copyright enforcement partner, Las Vegas company Righthaven LLC, has sued 98 North American websites and blogsites in federal court in Las Vegas since March -- typically demanding $75,000 in damages and forfeiture of the defendants' website domain names.

Attorneys say the Righthaven lawsuits are unprecedented in recent memory because, in the past, newspapers dealt with online copyright infringement by simply asking infringing websites to remove the infringing material and to replace it with a link to the source newspaper. Most Righthaven defendants say they were sued without warning and without anyone from the Review-Journal informing them there was a concern with their use of Review-Journal material.

None of the suits has reached the point where a judge has ruled on their validity. Defense attorneys usually argue that Righthaven has no right to sue since it didn't own the copyrights at the time of the alleged infringement -- Righthaven's procedure is to find an infringement, buy the copyright from the R-J and then sue over the retroactive infringement.


http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/aug/18/website-operators-use-new-defenses-fight-r-j-copyr/

Sun's article on DU being sued. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/aug/11/righthaven-sues-democratic-underground-website-ove/

[femmocrat]

10. Yikes! They also want the domain name!

Kick. Thanks for the excellent link.

[pnorman]

9. K & R! Mucho VALUABLE nformation throughout this entire thread!

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