Democratic Underground - DU Rules were followed and Righthaven still sued DU

Misconception in other thread I started here by some posters. I just wanted to set record straight.

DU is being sued for posting 4 paragraphs from Las Vegas Review-Journal out of 34 paragraphs and link back to Las Vegas Review-Journal was posted.

Court records show the Review-Journal posted a 34-paragraph story on its website May 13 about Republican Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle titled "Tea Party power fuels Angle."

The records show that on the same day, Democratic Underground website user ..... posted the first four paragraphs of that story, crediting it to the Review-Journal, and included a link to the rest of the story on the Review-Journal website.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/aug/11/righthaven-sues-democratic-underground-website-ove/

I removed the user name.

For example, one of its recent lawsuits is against the political forum Democratic Underground, where a user (not the site owner), quoted a mere 4 paragraphs of a 34 paragraph story -- and included a link to the full story. No matter, Righthaven sued. As it does in all of these lawsuits, it's demanding $75,000. The number is carefully chosen, because it's less than what going to court will likely cost. The idea is to just get people to pay up, even if the legal claims are bogus. Beyond the $75,000, it's laughably demanding that the domain name of the site be turned over as well.

Righthaven tries to avoid the obvious DMCA safe harbor issue with the following:

"The defendants' failure to institute any proactive policies intended to address the posting by others of copyright-infringing content on the website constituted and constitutes the defendants' willful blindness to copyright infringements occurring on the website ..."

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100812/01454910601.shtml

DU Rules were followed and Righthaven still sued DU [View All]