EFF Demands Righthaven Pay for Suing Democratic Underground

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By David Kravets December 8, 2010 | 3:42 pm


The Electronic Frontier Foundation is demanding that the newspaper lawsuit factory RightHaven pay the EFF’s costs for its successful defense of the website Democratic Underground from one of RightHaven’s many copyright lawsuits.

“Attorneys’ fees would be appropriately awarded, even apart from a statutory authorization, where dismissed claims were frivolous or pursued in bad faith,” (.pdf) the group told a federal judge Tuesday night.

Righthaven has just made news for signing up MediaNews Group, the nation’s second-biggest media concern, to litigate on behalf of that group’s intellectual property. Righthaven’s sole business model is to acquire intellectual property rights of newspaper content and sue alleged online infringers.

In the Righthaven-EFF legal flap, EFF claims Las Vegas-based Righthaven cannot be allowed to file bogus lawsuits and seek their dismissal without paying the defense’s legal bills. That’s an assertion Righthaven strongly disputes.


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[cutlassmama]

1. It seems appropriate that they would. Here's hoping they do.

:toast:

[JBoy]

2. Finish 'em off!

[Donnachaidh]

3. cue the Mortal Combat music! n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Good to see this case still seems on course for a just outcome

ie Righthaven has to give up copyright trolling.