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

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Monday, December 13, 2010

Denver Daily News Reports on the Post's Alignment with "Bottom Feeding Legal Outfit"

Post Aligned with 'Bottom Feeder?'
...Haters of both Righthaven and its founder, Mr. Gibson, say the firm is attacking people who should be given an education in copyright laws, not forced to defend themselves against expensive lawsuits.
“These are people who feel like they’re doing the online equivalent of cutting a newspaper out and sending a copy to their friends,” said Randazza, the California attorney representing “Righthaven victims.”
Randazza agreed that Drudge Report is a different beast, but pointed out that the Drudge Report suit is the first lawsuit brought by Righthaven against a large, truly profitable entity...
Read: Article in full

Friday, December 10, 2010

Campaign Begins to Delink the Denver Post and Las Vegas Review-Journal

Drudge Report: Urge Everyone to Delink the Denver Post and Las Vegas Review-Journal

The Petition instructs:
  1. First, remove all potentially infringing content from your site or blog.
  2. Then, remove any links you have to the DenverPost & the Las Vegas ReviewJournal or any of their other properties. Those domains include denverpost dot com, lvrj dot com, and reviewjournal dot com. Try not to send those sites any traffic or give them any “Google juice”. Generally speaking, the move links a site has the higher it will appear in Google searches. So, over time, fewer links to those sites will mean less traffic.
  3. If you can’t completely remove your links to their sites, use bare URLs in the form above or similar. Don’t use HTML links (“a href”). If you absolutely have to use an HTML link, at least put a nofollow tag on it.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Righthaven Sues Drudge Report Owner, Matt Drudge

Drudge Report Owner Sued by Righthaven
Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC on Wednesday filed its second copyright infringement lawsuit over Denver Post material, this time suing a big target: Drudge Report operator Matt Drudge.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for Nevada, charges a Nov. 18 Denver Post "illustration" called "Transportation Security Administration agents perform enhanced pat-downs" was posted without authorization the same day on the Drudge Report website as well as the drudgereportarchives.com site.
A court exhibit, however, indicates the illustration is actually a Denver Post photograph of a TSA officer patting down a passenger at Denver International Airport.
Read: Article in full

See more on Fox News, The Register, Politico, Colorado Independent, Wired and Westword.


Still no mention on the HuffingtonPost, whose Wikipedia page compares it to the Drudge Report. The Post has been given a number of "Best Blog" awards. Despite this, bloggers being sued by Righthaven and the threat Righthaven poses to all bloggers has been rejected by the Post as "unimportant." The Post also covers Denver, but remained silent on the recent Denver Post + Righthaven marriage.