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The Water Cooler Title: CONSERVATIVE WEBSITE (FR) AMONG 3 SUED OVER R-J COPYRIGHTS – LAS VEGAS SUN CONSERVATIVE WEBSITE AMONG 3 SUED OVER R-J COPYRIGHTS – LAS VEGAS SUN Tuesday, Jul 20, 2010 | 9:12 a.m. A regressive news-sharing website with copiousness of knowledge in traffic with copyright issues has been sued for copyright transgression after Las Vegas Review-Journal stories allegedly were posted upon a site. Free Republic LLC, James C. Robinson as well as John Robinson, who have been compared with a website www.freerepublic.com in Fresno, Calif., were sued in sovereign justice in Las Vegas upon Monday over a postings. Court annals prove users of which website this year posted a dozen R-J stories, columns as well as editorials, with a R-J being credited as a source of a information. These postings volume to copyright infringement, charges a legal case filed by Righthaven LLC, which has partnered with a Review-Journal to sue website operators around a country. The fit seeks indemnification of ,000. Calling itself “The Premier Conservative Site upon a Net,” a Free Republic site includes links to dozens of newspapers, together with a Las Vegas Sun, though not a Review-Journal. The site additionally includes a prolonged list of newspapers which have requested a site not post their stories, or post usually excerpts as well as links. The R-J is not upon which list. Concerning copyrights, a website says: “Free Republic has staid a purported copyright transgression fit brought by a Los Angeles Times as well as a Washington Post as well as has concluded not to post full content articles from their publications or any of their associated subsidiaries as well as affiliates. Please do not post full content from these sources.” That fit dates to 2000, annals show. The Free Republic website continues: “Most of a sourced element posted to Free Republic is posted according to a ‘fair use’ didactic discourse of copyright law for non-commercial headlines reporting, preparation as well as contention purposes. We used to post full content of many articles so you could request story as it’s being made, though some-more as well as some-more headlines agencies have been right away requesting us to post excerpts as well as links usually to their material, as well as a little have been requesting which you post no element during all from their sites. We have been complying with all such requests.” Also sued final week as well as this week by Righthaven were: –Erin Wilcox as well as Stranger Than Fiction. Wilcox, a legal case says, is a registrant of a Internet name strangerthanfiction.org. That site allegedly posted but authorisation a May twenty-five mainstay by R-J Publisher Sherman Frederick called “The TSA’s mini `Watch List.” The strangerthanfiction.org post of a story credited it to a R-J. –Kevin Kelleher in Raleigh, N.C., who operates a website about open residence announcers. He’s indicted of posting upon a site, pa-announcer.blogspot.com, an R-J story about UNLV announcer Dick Calvert being declared to a Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame. That post credited a R-J, annals show. Messages for criticism upon a lawsuits were left with a defendants. The ultimate suits move to 75 a series of copyright transgression lawsuits filed given Mar by Righthaven.
Poster Comment: Here comes the permanent griftathon to bail Rimmy and Jr's ass out.
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Its a bad precedent for all of us that frequent political forums.
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