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| Judge strips Righthaven of rights to 278 copyrights and its trademark |
| 2012-03-06 |
| [Las Vegas Inc] Like a gunfighter with no bullets, Las Vegas copyright company Righthaven LLC no longer has any copyrights to sue over. A federal judge in Las Vegas on Monday stripped Righthaven of whatever interests it has in its 278 federal copyright registrations as well as its trademark. Judge Philip Pro ordered that the copyrights and trademarks be transferred to a court-appointed receiver so they can be auctioned to cover some of Righthaven's debts. Most of the copyrights to be transferred under Pro's order of Monday cover material assigned to Righthaven for lawsuit purposes by the Review-Journal and the Denver Post. Some exceptions include some sports betting material that Righthaven used in its single lawsuit that didn't involve newspaper material. Other exceptions include two porn movies -- Ebony Amateurs Vegas Edition #10 and Ebony Princess #3 -- and a document called "The Righthaven Philosophy" that apparently spells out the company's failed plan to make money by suing over copyright infringements. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 strip these bastards of their law license and bar them from practicing . Every cent I contributed to you Fred was to keep the site running. You did that. Even if we don't get our money back, I don't regret one bit of it |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-03-06 20:22 |
| #7 Now there's stripping I can approve of. :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-03-06 19:20 |
| #6 Bar associations are supposed to prevent violations of "profession ethics." They did. The intellectual property law industry didn't like being undercut by a law firm version of ValuJet. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2012-03-06 11:39 |
| #5 Way too many occupations use the term 'profession' instead of accreditation. A real profession has an active mechanism of 'house cleaning' that has a discernible amount of turn-over and doesn't require outside prodding to act. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-03-06 05:14 |
| #4 They know that the average American can't afford to go to Motions courts every couple of weeks, so they proffer five figure settlements, regardless of the merit of their original claims. Yah, they leverage something for nothing. Vexatious purpose? They could drag out that issue for years. Bar associations are supposed to prevent violations of "profession ethics." Solution? Legislative remedy requiring impartial and objective bar association investigations where a target claims bankruptcy harassment. FYI motions (or chambers) hearings are conducted during daytime, Monday to Friday. So most targets have to seek time off work. Without reference to this mass derogation of procedural rights, a criminal organization could run a racket using similar tactics. I once counted 42 chambers applications contested in a single case. Fees may vary, but these usually cost $500 to $1000 for court time, then there is affidavit fees, lawyars fees (sometimes for all parties), motions fees. Yah, trivial matters can incur several thousands in costs. Then there is interlocatory appeals, which could go to SCOTUS. Your legislators need to know that there will be political costs if they permit quasi-extortion, in the name of justice. You could fit the number of honest lawyers in a phone booth. |
| Posted by: Spusose Lumplump9514 2012-03-06 05:00 |
| #3 Heh. The only thing that stood the challenge was betting and pr0n. Maybe they should change occupations. |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-03-06 00:55 |
| #2 But I don't ever expect to get our money back... |
| Posted by: Fred 2012-03-06 00:33 |
| #1 Good. It was politically charged frivolous campaigning that was hurting good people. |
| Posted by: newc 2012-03-06 00:07 |