Judge scolds Righthaven lawyer, adds another $32,000 judgment

Source: Ars Technica

This is a common problem for Righthaven, and the firm continues to get hit with fee awards over its strategy in an attempt to extract settlements from small-time infringement claims. Just last month, Righthaven was ordered to pay $119,488 in Nevada for exactly the same reason—not owning the copyrights for works it's suing over—and in August, the firm found itself on the wrong end of a $34,000 judgment after it tried to go after a forum poster who had copied and pasted the text of a news story.

The latest news from Colorado adds to the growing pile of money Righthaven owes—and apparently doesn't have. With the company on life support and its counsel, Shawn Mangano, being chided for his "lack of civility" during the most recent hearing, the future is bleak for Righthaven.

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:rofl:

I liken the use of a reasonable snippet of material one finds in a publication online on a frigging noncommercial blog or discussion board as akin to handing the newspaper across the breakfast table and having a chat about an article contained therein. Nice people offer a link, but if a poster isn't trying to make a buck off of a citation, that's fair use to my mind.

:rofl:

Hey Righthaven--- Go fuck yourselves!

HEY, RIGHTHAVEN!

SUCK IT!

I think they found out that DU bites back.

the lying, greedy hate-mongering republican party slime continue with their agenda, to intimidate & attack Americans citizens who don't agree with their greedy corporate fascist agenda...

he gets to Bush's "Roberts-controlled" RIGHT-WING SCOTUS ... and at that point, he gets a favorable nod, and then his court costs are on everybody else he went after ...

If not, tough.

Be undignified. They are.

until I hear the news that the lawyers for Righthaven have all turned up face down in a puddle somewhere

what these people have done is so detrimental to society as a whole - attack its very ability to communicate - that I don't believe we can have a place for such people. Exile them, or lift the protection of law, and let them live in the savage jungle they fancy themselves as lords of

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Not.

They show great restraint.