986forum.com Sued by Righthaven - The Story

[Brucelee]

Originally Posted by rkwei

Just heard from the lawyers that since both parties signed the settlement papers that Righthaven has formally dismissed the case against 986forum and myself in Nevada federal court.

Good news!

[randijo]

I don't post much, but I do enjoy reading the posts. I sent a contribution.

[stephendoherty62]

sent you some cash, this site has helped me out alot. I am from Ireland living in the States. This Law suit crap bothers the **************** out of me.

[iluvboxsters]

As soon as I pay for my repairs I will send some money.

[pothole]

Very disappointing to read of such cynical behaviour, will try to remember to send a few bucks over when my invoices get paid later in the month.

One query I have regards making the site bigger and stronger, why not let non-members view forum posts / threads? Surely this would increase traffic immensely. Plenty of forums do allow non members to read most if not all the forum. What's the downside?

[tonycarreon]

a federal judge yesterday dismissed a case RH brought against democratic underground saying that RH did not have grounds to sue since it did not actually own the content it was suing for (background - RH sues on behalf of media outlets by purchasing the right to sue, but not the actual copyright). the judge also ruled that RH failed to list the original copyright holder in most of the 200 cases it was pursuing.

the judge gave RH 2 weeks to explain why it should not be sanctioned.

and (according to the forbes blog) if RH is ordered to pay defendants attorney costs, it could lead to a wave of lawsuits by others who have "settled" rather than go to court.

the ruling essentially invalidates all of the other "contracts" RH has for "copyright" transfer with the specific right's holder (that i think was the cause of this suit) **************** and threatens the other "cases" RH has in other states with other content holders.

http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffbercovici/2011/06/15/copyright-vigilante-righthaven-will-fight-on-after-ruling/

[Stroked & Blown]

Righthaven news

http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2011/jun/20/righthaven-hit-third-fair-use-loss-over-r-j-materi/

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/fair-use-defense/

http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/newsbites.php?vol=13&issue=49&rss=Y#sID201