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Righthaven meets a sorry end

donal brown March 19, 2012

When a Nevada federal district court transferred Righthaven’s intellectual property to a court-appointed receiver for auction, it appeared that the copyright enforcer is finally done for. Righthaven had attempted to conduct business by suing small time bloggers and others for posting content from newspapers that Righthaven claimed had sold them the copyrights. -db From a commentary for the Citizens Media Law Project, March 15, 2012, by Arthur Bright. Full story    

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Federal court finds online newspaper excerpts fair use

donal brown March 12, 2012

A Nevada federal district court declared that an online forum is not liable for user posts and that the practice of excerpting a few sentences and linking to articles elsewhere is fair use and not copyright violation. The court’s judgment came in one of the cases appealed by Righthaven who had brought a number of nuisance lawsuits to contest trivial uses of newspaper content, writes Kurt Opsahl for the Electronic Freedom Foundation. -db From a

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Recording industry files amicus in Righthaven appeal

donal brown December 8, 2011

The Association of American Publishers and the Recording Industry Association of America are siding with Righthaven in its appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in an attempt to get an adverse ruling on fair use off the books. They claim in an amicus brief that it was an error to consider whether Righthaven held the copyright. Rather the court should  rule on the basis that the actual copyright owner was Stephens Media. -db

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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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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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