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

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Las Vegas Sun Recaps KNPR.org Segment: Righthaven Revisted

Posted by fairuser
Observers Note Uncertainty Over Future of Righthaven/R-J Copyright Suits
Eric Goldman, associate professor at California's Santa Clara University School of Law and director of the High Tech Law Institute there, said he doubted the litigation strategy would be profitable in the long run as more defendants organize and fight back, increasingly keeping Righthaven attorneys busy researching and writing legal briefs and making court appearances.
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Listen: KNPR.org segment in full

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09/20/10: Tuesday: KNPR's State of Nevada: Righthaven Revisited 9:00 am (PAC)
Posted by fairuser at 11:09 PM

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