Copyright Trolls!

[JackLuis]

Judge: ‘Copyright troll’ Righthaven may have lied in hundreds of lawsuits

The liberal political forum Democratic Underground, LLC. (DU) has escaped a lawsuit filed by Righthaven, LLC. that claimed a user illegally appropriated several paragraphs of a news story.

In the ruling, a Las Vegas judge wrote that Righthaven's claims were invalid because it did not actually hold a copyright on the story -- and that it may have mislead judges in hundreds of other lawsuits.

The user's excerpt was five sentences long, taken from a 50-sentence story in The Las Vegas Review Journal, and included a hyperlink for DU users to read more.

U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt wrote that Righthaven "made multiple inaccurate and likely dishonest statements to the court" and ordered them to explain why they should not be sanctioned for it.

Three Cheers for the Judiciary!​

Watch out Trysail, they are watching you.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

So what's this company actually do?

 

[JackLuis]

So what's this company actually do?

Sues for copyright infringement, for a piece of the action, it sounds like. Most people will just settle and pay up.

Proving that assholes can make money in any environment.