Intellectual Property Law

"Avoiding The Wrath of Righthaven"

By Marty Schwimmer

Las Vegas Trademark Attorney: "Avoiding The Wrath of Righthaven":

There has been a lot of discussion in the Las Vegas area (and nationwide) about the numerous copyright infringement lawsuits filed by a Las Vegas company named Righthaven, LLC. As of August 4, 2010, Righthaven had filed approximately 86 lawsuits against various website operators claiming copyright infringement. While not immediate apparent from the lawsuits, Righthaven is essentially a company established by Stephens Media LLC, the owner of numerous newspaper including the Las Vegas Review Journal (the ?RJ?), in order to go after any and all third party websites that improperly excerpt all or part of the copyrighted articles from the RJ.

Full post as published by Trademark Blog on August 11, 2010 (boomark / email).