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  Righthaven loses in Colorado, continues to try not to pay in Nevada

  894 readersIt’s a little weird to begin every post I make about the company this way, but the saga of e-news copyright troll Rights Haven’t, I mean Righthaven, keeps getting better and better. First came the news that a Colorado court has thrown out the first Righthaven case to be thrown out outside of Nevada. The

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  Sci-Fi Author Accuses Project Gutenberg Of Releasing Copyrighted Works

  868 readersScience fiction author Greg Bear and his wife Astrid Anderson Bear, who is the daughter of sci-fi author, Poul Anderson, claim that Project Gutenberg may have infringed the rights of some authors and improperly put their work into the public domain. In...

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  Righthaven loses again, faces $120,000 fine

  1251 readersArs Technica reports that Rights Haven’t, I mean Wrong Headed, I mean Righthaven has just gotten hit with another big fine in the form of a $119,488 legal fees award to another plaintiff. Couldn’t happen to a nicer law firm. The case in question, Righthaven vs. Thomas DiBiase, was another one of those cases that

• Why We Should Stop Calling it DRM (and Maybe Abandon It Altogether)

  1112 readers DRM is a very misleading description. Every book that is under copyright comes with a form of Digital Rights Management as in author, agent, publishers, distributors, retailers having contracts in place between themselves to manage  the digital rights to an e-book (contracts, not technology being the tool) and copyright law manages the digital rights framework overall. Adobe

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  National Writers Union response to Google Book Settlement decision

  1751 readersFrom their website: “Judge Chin’s decision that the Google Book Settlement was ’not fair, adequate and reasonable’ gives the National Writers Union even more reason to pursue other means through Congress and the courts to protect and affirm writers’ rights against this sort of corporate infringement,” declared Larry Goldbetter, president of the NWU, the union of freelance writers. ”Because writers’ copyright

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  Righthaven loses again, tries to argue court has no jurisdiction to impose legal fees

  1930 readersJust when I thought the Righthaven copyright troll cases couldn’t get any more interesting, the latest word out of the courts turned downright hilarious. In its latest legal setback, a judge found a sports blog’s on-line reposting of two Las Vegas Review-Journal op-eds in their entirety to be fair use (echoing an earlier case in which

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  Righthaven cases may be built on faulty legal foundation

  3022 readersThe Righthaven case just keeps getting better and better. Ars Technica had a nice piece yesterday summing up recent developments (Techdirt also had a series of Righthaven-related pieces here, here, here, and here). In short, the EFF succeeded in having the court unseal a document describing the relationship between Righthaven and Stephens Media, the newspaper

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  Wish your tablet or smartphone had E-Ink? Now it does.

  315 readersThose of you who don’t happen to be productivity obsessives may have missed this one, but last night, Lifehacker posted a really simple trick that’ll give your tablet or smartphone screen an appearance similar to that of an E-Ink screen … sort of. Here’s how it works: I use a matte screen protector and using an app like Cool Reader (since

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  Rights Market in China is Booming, But Complicated

  488 readersThis article was produced during the Frankfurt Book Fair in cooperation with GigaOM By Laura Hazard Owen, GigaOM “Times are hard,” Diane Spivey, Rights and Contracts Director at Hachette’s Little, Brown Book Group, acknowledged in her introduction at the 26th annual International Rights Directors Meeting at the Frankfurt Book Fair. “To continue to grow, or even hold

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  Righthaven loses another case, hit with another $33,000 in legal fees

  1233 readersArs Technica has another brief post on Righthaven. A Colorado court trying its case against a blogger for posting a photo without permission has found in favor of the defendant, because Righthaven did not actually own the rights to the image it would have needed for its suit to be valid. The judge required Righthaven