Look what happened this last Monday
Monday’s ruling dismissed a lawsuit brought by Righthaven, a Las Vegas-based copyright litigation factory jointly owned with newspaper publisher Stephens Media. The venture’s litigation tactics and ethics are being questioned by several judges and attorneys, a factor that also weighed in on U.S. District Judge Philip Pro’s decision Monday.
Righthaven has sued more than 200 websites, bloggers and commenters for copyright infringement. More than 100 have settled out of court.
They court OK’d the republishing of an entire article as “Fair Use”. I assume that proper attribution was made by the republisher, mostly because Righthaven didn’t sue for plagarism.
Anyway, good on Mr. Wayne Hoehn for standing up to Righthaven.