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Righthaven sues for control of Drudge Report domain
Original story in LVRJ - link (and text below) is to ars technica to avoid feeding the troll.
News aggregation impresario Matt Drudge is being sued for copyright infringement for reproducing a copyrighted photo along with a link to a story about airport security on the Las Vegas Review-Journal website.

Instead, Righthaven announced it had teamed up with the nation's second-biggest news chain, owners of the Denver Post among others, and has now filed a lawsuit that arguably takes the mass-suer to a whole new level with its biggest target yet.

In the new lawsuit, Righthaven asks a judge to "lock the Drudge Report Domain and transfer control of the Drudge Report Domain to Righthaven."

Drudge's post also allegedly contained "an embedded hyperlink entitled: 'VEGAS CONFIDENTIAL,' linking directly to a section of the Las Vegas Review-Journal website."

This lawsuit, though, is a rarity insofar as copyright infringement being connected to linking. Righthaven takes issue with the fact that the Drudge Report has no DMCA takedown regime to respond to those who alleged violations of copyright.
How'd Drudge miss that?
All he offers is links, no copy/pasted text, and often not the even the original headlines. I'm not sure how a location on the web, often enough a fleeting location that disappears after a few days, can infringe copyright as opposed to drive business to the news source, and therefore ad revenues. For years news sites have been sending links to Drudge in exactly that hope.
The plaintiff demands statutory damages for willful infringement, costs, and an injunction that would allow Righthaven to seize the Drudge Report domain.

According to the complaint filed yesterday in Nevada District Court, the Drudge Report website is alleged to have posted a photo first found in the Denver Post showing a TSA agent giving a pat-down at an airport.
Here's hoping they bit off a whole lot more than they can swallow.
Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-12-14
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=311734