MediaNews won't renew contract with copyright enforcer Righthaven

[LeighAnn]

Source: Denver Post

Media News Group, owner of The Denver Post, will not renew its one-year contract with copyright enforcer Righthaven at the end of September, a company official said today.

Righthaven is a Las Vegas company that has brought numerous copyright infringement lawsuits against bloggers and website owners for re-posting newspaper content, including photographs, without permission.

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John Paton, who was appointed as MediaNews chief executive Wednesday, sent a message on Twitter later in the day that MediaNews had terminated its relationship with Righthaven "some time ago."

MediaNews vice president of field operations Sara Glines said Wednesday that the company had decided, before Paton arrived, to let the contract lapse at the end of the month, and that it had informed Righthaven.



Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_18846816

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2 other paragraphs at the link

[LeighAnn]

1. "Righthaven on Life Support"

From Wired:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/righthaven-on-life-support/

"The great experiment in copyright trolling that is Righthaven appears to be nearing an end.

Righthaven, which was founded more than a year ago to monetize print news content through copyright infringement lawsuits, has suffered a myriad of courtroom setbacks in recent months. Among them, it was sanctioned $5,000 for misleading a federal judge, ordered to pay $34,000 for an opponent’s legal fees (.pdf), and was told over and again by judges that it has no legal standing to even file the lawsuits.

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Righthaven went on to settle more than 100 cases out of court for a few thousand dollars each. Many of its early lawsuits targeted websites for comments and forum posts by the site’s readers.

The plan hit a major snag in June, however, when Chief U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt of Nevada threw out a copyright lawsuit against the Democratic Underground blog for allegedly clipping four paragraphs from a 34-paragraph story published by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Stephens Media’s flagship paper."

[struggle4progress]

2. Translation: "We think this may get ugly, so we're puttin daylight twixt them and us"

[hang a left]

3. good

frickin bottom feeders

[LeighAnn]

4. One step closer...

...to the end of these vultures