Righthaven files 4 more suits; lawyers argue R-J is giving away its stories

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Source: Las Vegas Sun

By allowing people to read its stories online for free, the Las Vegas Review-Journal is essentially giving away those stories, and recipients of the articles are free to display them on their own websites.

At least that’s the theory suggested by one of the latest group of lawyers to sign on to represent one of the website operators being sued for copyright infringement by the Review-Journal’s copyright enforcement partner, Righthaven LLC.

... Separately, Righthaven filed four more copyright infringement lawsuits on Friday.

... As is its typical demand in recent suits, Righthaven seeks damages of $150,000 apiece in each of the new lawsuits as well as forfeiture of the defendants’ website domain names.

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/sep/25/lawyers-argue-r-j-stories-web-arent-protected-copy/