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Opinion: Internet community suffers double whammy over exclusion from House online piracy hearing

donal brown November 17, 2011

The webcast of the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA was of such poor quality that the Internet community was effectively shut out until the question and answer period. The community is also concerned that the committee is only asking one representative of the technology sector to testify. -db From a commentary for the Electronic Freedom Foundation, November 16, 2011, by Rainey Reitman. Full story

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Creditor moves to seize Righthaven assets

donal brown September 20, 2011

A man awarded legal fees for defending himself against a Righthaven copyright lawsuit asked a judge to authorize  U.S. Marshalls to seize Righthaven’s bank accounts, property and other assets. Righthaven missed the deadline to pay the $34,000 in fees. Righthaven CEO Steve Gibson said his firm would be vindicated for suing the man who had published an editorial verbatim on the website to prompt discussion of public employee pensions. -db From Wired, September 19, 2011,

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MediaNews, Denver Post drop copyright troll Righthaven

donal brown September 13, 2011

The CEO of MediaNews Group declared it “a dumb idea” to sign up with the copyright troll Righthaven. Righthaven was founded over a year ago to make money by buying copyrights from news outlets then suing for copyright infringement. Courts have recently ruled that the Righthaven agreements with the media did not actually result in true acquisition of the copyrights so Righthaven had no standing to sue for copyright infringement. -db From Wired, September 8,

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Copyright: IHOP sues church ministry for co-opting IHOP trademark

donal brown June 2, 2011

After dropping a similar suit in California in January, IHOP the restaurant chain is filing a new suit in Kansas City against the International House of Prayer (IHOP). IHOP the restaurant started to use the initials in 1973 and said it must protect its trademark with 45 of its 1500 restaurants in Missouri. From The Kansas City Star, June 1, 2011, by Mark Morris. Full story

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Media lawyer analyzes impact of Righthaven copyright lawsuits

donal brown March 8, 2011

In a thorough analysis of the Righthaven enterprise, Jeffrey D. Neuburger, a lawyer specializing in technology and media business, says it is not likely that Righthaven litigation will significantly curtail the re-posting of online news content with links to the source. But the likelihood is getting sued by Righthaven for copyright violations is real so, says Neuburger, it is important for website providers who allow third party content to protect themselves with DMCA safe harbor

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