Righthaven LLC -- a bottom feeding legal outfit -- has teamed up with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Denver Post to sue mom and pop websites, advocacy and public interest groups and forum board operators for copyright infringement. The strategy of Righthaven is to sue thousands of these website owners, who are primarily unfunded and will be forced to settle out of court.
Righthaven lawsuitsTo date Righthaven has been ordered to pay $323,138 in legal fees and sanctions.Righthaven lawsuits

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Webmaster Alert: Start Following the U.S. Copyright Public Catalog to Search & Scrub

Posted by fairuser
A fantastic tip came in today from American Justice Dot Org. Webmasters who are concerned about past and recently purchased copyrights by Righthaven can search the U.S. Copyright Public Catalog.
  1. View the Public Catalog page
  2. Type "Righthaven" into the Search box
  3. Select "Keyword" in Search By
  4. Choose "100 Records Per Page" to show in the drop down menu.
  5. Click "Begin Search"
The results display all copyrights that Righthaven has purchased to date. As of February 17, 2011 there are 151. With this information, you can search and scrub your domains of infringing content.

Now, if there was only automated software to do all of this for you...
Posted by fairuser at 1:09 PM

2 comments:

  1. USWGO AdminFebruary 17, 2011 at 7:19 PM

    Hey I've got great advice for the Denver Post (For not following proper copyrights they should be called the DunceVer Post) and Righthaven.

    Heres advice about why Righthaven will lose every lawsuit case.

    http://righthaven-sharks.blogspot.com/2011/02/if-righthaven-expects-to-win-any-case.html

    ReplyDelete
  2. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2011 at 9:30 AM

    The real question is why is this outfit being permitted to engage in this shakedown - extortion racket?

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