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Righthaven may have filed its last copyright infringement suit

donal brown September 7, 2011

The controversial copyright  troll, Righthaven, has not filed a lawsuit in two months after punishing court rulings against the company. The firm began over a year ago supposedly to buy copyrights from news media and file suits to stop copyright infringements. Although Righthaven is appealing the court decisions that held that it had no legal standing to file the suits, its operations are at a standstill as the appeal cases take months and years to

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Righthaven dunned for lawyer’s fees

donal brown July 7, 2011

Righthaven has lost another legal battle this time over lawyer’s fees. A federal judge order the copyright enforcement firm to pay over $3,800 to lawyers for Michael Leon whom Righthaven sued for infringment of copyright. In June a Nevada federal district judge ruled that Righthaven had no standing to sue for copyright violations of Las Vegas Review-Journal articles because the newspaper had not granted Righthaven the ability to license the pieces. -db From the Online

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Opinion: Righthaven lacks exclusive copyright ownership of Stephens Media news articles

donal brown April 19, 2011

Electronic Frontier Foundation Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl says that in obtaining  from a federal district court an agreement between Righthaven and Stephens Media, it discovered that although Righthaven claimed in its suits for copyright infringement that it held exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute Stephens Media news articles, that the agreement stated that Righthaven “shall have no right or license to Exploit or participate in the receipt of royalties from the Exploitation of the

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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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Media Bloggers Association criticizes Righthaven in amicus brief

donal brown February 28, 2011

The Media Bloggers Association has asked a federal judge in Nevada to award only minimal damages and no lawyer’s fees to Righthaven who is suing a blogger for violating copyright in publishing an article from the Las Vegas Review-Journal on his website. The lawyers for the bloggers argued in the brief that the damages asked, $150,000, and $1,850 in lawyer’s fees were excessive in light of nature of the alleged infringement. -db From a commentary

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