Judge Orders Righthaven to Forfeit ‘All’ Copyrights

[Newsjock]

Source: Wired

Righthaven, a copyright-troll law firm that failed in its attempt to make money for newspapers by suing readers for sharing stories online, was dealt a death blow Tuesday by a federal judge who ordered the Las Vegas company to forfeit “all of” its intellectual property and other “intangible property” to settle its debts.

... U.S. District Judge Philip M. Pro of Nevada ordered Righthaven to surrender for auction the 278 copyrighted news articles that were the subject of its lawsuits.

... “The irony of this? Perhaps those who buy the copyrights could issue DMCA notices to the Review-Journal stopping them from redistributing them?” Randazza said via an e-mail, citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Stephens Media will indeed likely have to take them off its own website — or license them from the future owner — if it doesn’t buy the rights back itself.

Read more: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/troll-forfeits-copyrights/

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Full ruling (47 pages, PDF): http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/03/show_temp.pl_.pdf

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Perhaps the owners of DU would could consider putting in a bid on at least one of those articles

How much is an old news item worth anyway? If one is obtained cheaply, it could be run on DU in its entirety - the equivalent of a 'stuffed head' trophy for mounting on the wall.

[Webster Green]

2. Their demise has been real fun to watch.

[denbot]

3. Cry me a river.

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With a thanks to JTFrog for making me this LOL Cat.