34 Forums and Websites Sued Over R-J copyrights

[Kakashi]

This is absolutely ridiculous.

The publishers of a noncommercial blog about cats in Boston are among the latest defendants in lawsuits claiming website operators have been infringing on copyrights by posting Las Vegas Review-Journal stories without authorization.

Allegra and Emerson Wong are among the defendants in eight lawsuits filed in federal court in Las Vegas on Friday claiming infringement of copyrights to R-J stories. Friday's suits bring to 34 the number of lawsuits filed over R-J copyrights since March.

The plaintiff in the suits is Righthaven LLC, a company that has partnered with the Review-Journal to sue alleged copyright infringers.

In most cases, the defendants have no idea the R-J is concerned they are violating copyrights until they are contacted by the Las Vegas Sun, informed they have been sued and asked for comment.

In the Wongs' case, court records indicate family in Las Vegas sent them an R-J story from March 21 about a fire at the Gilcrease Nature Sanctuary that killed scores of birds. One of the Wongs then allegedly posted the story on the blog at allegrawong.com, apparently out of concern for the animals.

More than two months later, attorneys for Righthaven on May 26 obtained the copyright to that story from the R-J; and then filed their suit on Friday.

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So these websites are getting sued because their own members are copying and pasting a news article on their forums. A few sites are settling, while are others are standing up and fighting.

 

[Krynn72]

And then hl2.net gets sued for Kakashi posting a Las Vegas Sun article.

 

[Schall]

Lmao, look at their comment system.

 

[Warped]

Lmao, look at their comment system.

you have to sign up, no thanks! I don't want to get fined for doing that. Also i bet what comes next if this passes is that anyone copyrighting would be fined. this is bullshit, the internet is full of fake things and people. you can't sue someone over articles, there should be an Act called the Protection Against Stupid Allegations and Unreasonably Ludicrous Complaints Act (PASAULCA for short)

but you catch my drift. also i bet this is happening because Net Neutrality is a slow process to dismantle and this could speed things up to having only specific networks and institutions on the net.

 

[ríomhaire]

How can a news story be copyrighted? It's a factual piece!