Las Vegas Review Journal suing people who post articles online

I read it as the judge saying Stephens Media needs to do its own legal work, instead of farming it out to RightHaven.

 

Well, sure, if you're going to limit yourself to one succinct sentence when I went to the effort of two long ones interrupted by semicolons

 

I had to rewrite it so you wouldn't sic RightHaven on me.

 

Others who get religious about the definition of irony can clarify for me, but a company getting slapped in court for glomming on to someone else's rights -- while trying to prevent others from glomming on to that same entity's rights -- seems to qualify.

 

Righthaven's business model smells a lot like extortion to me.

 

This asshole company has had its assets seized:

http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2011/nov/01/marshals-ordered-seize-righthaven-assets/

 

I can't just take an entire article from the New York Times and run it verbatim in my paper without permission, or without subscribing to NYT syndication services, even if I note it is from the New York Times.

That would be a pretty clear-cut case of copyright infringement. Why should the Internet be any different?

Our paper's general rule of thumb is, if you want to cut-and-paste a couple of key grafs as a teaser and provide a link to our stuff, that's awesome. You're doing us a valuable service and we thank you.

You cut-and-past the entire article, thus removing all incentive to visit our website for the information we've collected? You're going to be hearing from us, if we find out. Because you're stealing our reporters' work without permission.

 

The domain has been auctioned off. It looks like Righthaven is no more.

http://domainnamewire.com/2012/01/06/righthaven-com-sells-for-3300/

 

Linking to an article is stealing content?

 

That's how I always do it in my blogs and other postings.

Put enough of the article up to give a taste, then link.

 

Back in May the the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit put Righthaven down for good. It seems they really are now done.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/copyright-troll-righthaven-finally-completely-dead/