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Title: Drudge Report Owner Sued By Righthaven
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LV SUN
URL Source: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/201 ... -report-owner-sued-righthaven/
Published: Dec 10, 2010
Author: Steve Green
Post Date: 2010-12-10 15:18:31 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 3237
Comments: 10
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. Righthaven usually sues over unauthorized online postings of news stories, columns and editorials. Lately it has sued over alleged infringements involving graphics and, now, a photograph. "Mr. Drudge has willfully engaged in the copyright infringement of the work," Wednesday's lawsuit charges. A message for comment was left with Drudge, who was sued personally, as well as codefendant drudgereportarchives.com. Righthaven since March has now filed at least 181 copyright infringement lawsuits against website operators and bloggers. It usually sues over Las Vegas Review-Journal material. An affiliate of Stephens Media LLC, owner of the Review-Journal, is an investor in Righthaven. Last week, Righthaven started suing over Denver Post material. Righthaven finds online infringements, obtains copyrights to the infringed material and then sues the alleged infringers on a retroactive basis. Righthaven and Stephens Media have said the lawsuits are necessary to protect the newspaper industry's copyrights, but critics call the no-warning lawsuits frivolous and part of a settlement shakedown campaign. A court exhibit indicates Righthaven on Wednesday applied with the U.S. Copyright Office to register its rights in the Denver Post photograph of the TSA pat-down and that it obtained rights to the photo from Denver Post owner Media News Group Inc., which also spells its name MediaNews Group. As for the drudgereportarchives.com site, it says: "Matt Drudge does not own, operate or maintain this archive site. He is not responsible for it in any way." And Righthaven says in its lawsuit "DrudgeReportArchives is, and has been at all times relevant to this lawsuit, an entity of unknown origin and nature." Nevertheless, Righthaven charged in the lawsuit: "At all times relevant to this lawsuit, Mr. Drudge has been and is a direct financial beneficiary of the Drudge Archives website." "DrudgeReportArchives has displayed and/or archived, and continues to display and/or archive ... all of the electronic content and embedded hyperlinks originally posted and/or displayed by Mr. Drudge on the Drudge Report website," Righthaven's suit charges. "At all times relevant to this lawsuit, Mr. Drudge has permitted and permits the electronic content (including ... all embedded hyperlinks and interactive features) ultimately posted and/or displayed on the Drudge Archives website." As in most of its recent lawsuits, Righthaven seeks in Wednesday's lawsuit damages of $150,000 as well as forfeiture to Righthaven of the drudgereport.com and drudgereportarchives.com website domain names.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
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Drudge doesn't post content. He posts links to content. If you can get sued for linking to content, the entire internet will come crashing down. These Righthaven trolls should be taken out and SHOT.
If you can get sued for linking to content, the entire internet will come crashing down. read the article, he posted pictures that didn't belong to him.
No he didn't. He posts links to pictures. He does not copy pictures into his own storage. A third party website, which takes snapshots of Drudge.com may or may not have copied the pictures, or they may have just linked to them. This is very unclear, but it has nothing to do with Drudge. Google, Bing and other search sites do this too. Why doesn't Righthaven sue them? Oh, because Righthaven can't push them around and they would lose if they actually went to court. Righthaven is shyster legal firm trolling the internet to get rich through intimidation. They hope that their targets will settle out of court. Someone needs to put them in their place.
If you can get sued for linking to content, the entire internet will come crashing down. These Righthaven trolls should be taken out and SHOT. You think it might be part of a coordinated move, along with WikiLeaks to curtail Internet freedoms?
Well, [war's] got to do something for attention, his multiple personalities aren't speaking to him any more, and his imaginary friends keep finding excuses not to come over.
A third party website, which takes snapshots of Drudge.com may or may not have copied the pictures, or they may have just linked to them. This is very unclear, but it has nothing to do with Drudge. He's being accused of putting the picture up on his web site.
Here's a picture: This is not illegal. The shyster law firm is getting too big for it's britches by trying to sue Drudge. I hope that this is the end of them.
Only Julian Assange should be able to post as desired.
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it's displayed on this site, without the owners permission, a copyright violation.
I was looking at my back email. I got a notice from righthaven too. I didn't notice it until about a month ago. So folks don't post their crap articles here please. If anyone knows of any of their articles then please let me know and I will put them in the shitpile where they belong.
Untrue
"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange
#2. To: jwpegler (#1)
Drudge doesn't post content. He posts links to content.
On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.
#3. To: go65 (#2)
(Edited)
he posted pictures that didn't belong to him.
"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange
#4. To: jwpegler (#1)
Drudge doesn't post content. He posts links to content.
#5. To: jwpegler (#3)
No he didn't. He posts links to pictures. He does not copy pictures into his own storage.
On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.
#6. To: go65 (#5)
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Did I save that to Liberyflame's servers? No, it's a link to the site that originally hosted the pictures.
"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange
#7. To: Brian S, *WikiLeak - Jon Pollard Fans* (#0)
Barrack Hussein Obama
President of the United States of America said that some Americans ; "They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
#8. To: jwpegler (#6)
Did I save that to Liberyflame's servers? No, it's a link to the site that originally hosted the pictures.
On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.
#9. To: Brian S (#0)
#10. To: go65 (#8)
it's displayed on this site, without the owners permission, a copyright violation.
"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange
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