Judge Takes Dim View of Righthaven
Court rules against copyright litigation firm, with the admonishment that its business model is more about filing suits than protecting publishers
A newspaper publisher’s copyright attack dog got a swat on the nose last week. Righthaven LLC has filed over 250 infringement lawsuits in Nevada, Colorado, and California on behalf of Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Denver Post, and other newspapers.
But a federal judge has declined to indulge its latest episode of copyright trolling, ruling that 100 percent reproduction of an article for a website falls under fair use.
Righthaven charged the Center for Intercultural Organization, a not-for-profit group, with stealing its intellectual property when it blogged a story about cops targeting minorities, reposting it in full.
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