Righthaven gets legal win in copyright lawsuit campaign

[Newsjock]

Source: Las Vegas Sun

Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC scored an initial legal victory in one of its lawsuits Thursday when a federal judge declined to dismiss the case.

The ruling involving Canadian website www.majorwager.com means attorneys on both sides have more work to do as fact-finding discovery can now proceed unless a settlement is reached.

Thursday's ruling in favor of Righthaven was issued by U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro in Las Vegas and may have been a pleasant surprise for Righthaven.

That's because it was Navarro, in a different case, who last month dealt Righthaven a setback by ruling a defendant may have had an "implied license" to copy material from the Las Vegas Review-Journal because the Review-Journal encourages the online sharing of its stories.

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/oct/28/righthaven-gets-legal-win-copyright-lawsuit-campai/

[msongs]

1. obvious solution - blacklist all information coming from righthaven Las Vegas Review-Journal nt

[boppers]

2. How do you do that?

So, here's the game:
1. Publish something. Encourage others to copy/share/link it.
2. Somebody else copies/shares/links it.
3. Sue those websites with members who did so.

[Ian David]

3. You know, one COULD go around posting LVJR articles on right-wing message boards. n/t