http://www.osnews.com/story/23767/Af...opyright_Troll
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There's a company called Righthaven in that little piece of The Netherlands in Nevada called Las Vegas. We've heard of patent trolls, and most of us will probably despise them for hurting innovation and abusing the (already severely broken) US patent system. Well, Righthaven has a somewhat similar business model, but instead of buying up patents, this company buys up copyrights. Right now, the newspaper Las Vegas Review-Journal™®℠ is the company's only client. Righthaven buys the copyrights to some of the newspaper's articles and then scours the web for possible infringements. Without any form of a notice or warning, Righthaven then moves to sue the infringers, relying on the over-the-top penalties possible under the US Copyright Act (up to $150000 per infringement). |