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Stumble14th website sued over R-J copyright allegations
Monday, May 17, 2010 | 9 a.m.
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- More suits over alleged R-J copyrights bring number to 13 (5-14-10)
- Suits accuse groups of posting copyrighted R-J stories (5-5-10)
- Two more websites sued over posting of R-J stories (5-3-10)
- Sixth copyright suit filed over R-J stories on websites (4-26-10)
- 3 copyright suits filed over R-J stories on Web sites (4-16-10)
- Suits accuse 2 groups of posting copyrighted R-J stories online (3-17-10)
A 14th website owner has been sued over allegations it violated copyrights by posting Las Vegas Review-Journal stories without authorization.
Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas filed suit in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas on Friday against Enterprise Funding LLC, a Wisconsin company; and Jeffrey Makinen, whom Righthaven says runs an Enterprise website called statfox.com.
The statfox website, which focuses on sports betting, this winter posted without authorization Review-Journal stories on Super Bowl betting, the lawsuit charges.
A request for comment was placed Monday with the defendants.
Righthaven is a company that has been obtaining copyrights to R-J stories and then suing website owners that allegedly violate those copyrights.
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It would sure be nice if the LV Sun would post at list of the 14 web sites that have been sued. A real reporter would list those facts in the story or at least link to somewhere that has a complete list.
Were these site repeat offenders or did they just once copy LVRJ stories without permission?
Seems like this news article is just a tickler, leaving a lot of information out that should have been included. I expected better from the LV Sun.
BigRed, see all of those links next to the story? That's what you're looking for.
Oh I thought there is too much litigation...blah blah, are they trying to win the lawsuit lottery???
Guess there's one standard for a drug company victim, one for an injured worker, one for a polluted waterway and one for the RJ .
Start your own newspaper, BigRedDog. You can call it "The Big Red Dog" and everyone can complain about your lousy reporting.
I hate armchair reporters.
BigRedDog, most appear to be 100% copy and pastes of an article including a SOURCE LINK and a source name in multiple locations on their websites. They aren't necessarily trying to plagiarize and claim as their own. In one entry you can find atleast 4 areas where the source is listed and credited.
The main component LVRJ.com, is claiming they are losing unspecified UNKNOWN DAMAGES since people are not going to view the article at that website.. Google.com search LVRJ.com right now and you'll find over 1500 websites/blogs/messageboards who are copy and pasting articles.
Most innocently enough, don't realize it's in fact illegal. A standard takedown notice would be suffice.. RightHaven will likely sue as many websites as they can. Google search links to about ~1500 more they can go after..
Not only are standard messageboards/websites/blogs doing this to LVRJ articles but countless others. They don't discriminate.
Forward thinkers would realize that if a few articles are copy and pasted, maybe NEW readers will go back to the SOURCE website. In theory, what is free advertising to the newspapers for their articles these websites deem SHARABLE, are turning into lawsuits.. Readers are turning away by the droves. You think LVRJ is the only source for news? People will go elsewhere like the Sun.
The lawsuits are so shortsightened.. Short term money grab