Righthaven appealing fair-use ruling in copyright infringement case

Source: Las Vegas Sun

Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC is asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn an order dismissing one of its lawsuits on fair use grounds.

Righthaven, which sues over Las Vegas Review-Journal and Denver Post material, has since March sued at least 238 website operators and message-board posters, charging they displayed on their websites material from those newspapers without authorization.

In October, the litigation campaign suffered a setback when U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks in Reno dismissed a lawsuit against Las Vegas real estate agent Michael Nelson.

Hicks found the online posting by Nelson of the first eight sentences of a 30-sentence Review-Journal story didn’t amount to copyright infringement as it was protected by the “fair use” doctrine .

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/feb/15/righthaven-appealing-fair-use-ruling-copyright-cas/

And they would just as soon bring her back to the barn for more milking ....

Bastards ....

Copyright THIS: "money-grubbing." Or this: "anti-freedom of information." Or this: "derps."

financed solely by RW zealots that are trying to use the legal system to destroy any perceived "enemy".

Copyright violations are hard to prove, especially when the source is credited.

Under current copyright law, legally, what I am writing right now is protected under the law, as is everyone else's post or anything else they have written or committed to any form of "permanent media".

I thought they went after David Duke and Sharon Angle?

they are still walkin' funny from what DU did to them

Barratry

Barratry is the name of three legal concepts, one in criminal and civil law, and one in admiralty law.

Barratry, in criminal and civil law, is the act or practice of bringing repeated legal actions solely to harass.

In admiralty law, barratry is an act of gross misconduct committed by a master or crew of a vessel which damages the vessel or its cargo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barratry