Courtsey of the Puppy-Blender™. Me likee.
A federal judge in Las Vegas on Friday unsealed the agreement for prosecuting copyright infringement lawsuits between Righthaven LLC and Las Vegas Review-Journal owner Stephens Media.
"By rejecting Righthaven's and Stephens Media's efforts to keep the document secret, Chief Judge Hunt has allowed the various victims of Righthaven's campaign of intimidation to know the truth. The document in question, a Strategic Alliance Agreement, gave Righthaven the right to sue on Stephens' Media's copyrights, but no other rights in the copyrights, which we believe will defeat Righthaven's standing to sue any of those it has targeted," said Pulgram, an attorney associated with the Electronic Frontier Foundation with the San Francisco law firm Fenwick & West LLP. More at the link. :-D
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Hunt's ruling came Friday in a Righthaven lawsuit against the Democratic Underground over the partial posting of a Review-Journal story -- and a Democratic Underground counterclaim against Righthaven and Stephens Media.
The Democratic Underground is the pretty much the sole reason why there's been some hi-profile legal firepower involved (a good portion pro bono) from places like Electronic Frontier Foundation.
I'm no legal beagle, but it does make an interesting point: if the LVRJ transferred to RVHN ONLY the part of the copyright that permits them to sue (and not as the lawyer for LVRJ but as a partner), then does RVHN have standing in court? Do they 'own' the copyright, or did they just lease a chunk of it?
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Either way, Righthaven are the scum and bottom feeders of the legal world. The sooner they are broken and put out of business the better.
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"does RVHN have standing in court? Do they 'own' the copyright, or did they just lease a chunk of it?"
According to the article, Dr. Steve, they may not have standing. "Defense attorneys fighting Righthaven say that in order to sue, Righthaven must have complete ownership of the copyrights."
Oops. IANAL, of course, but this could be fun.
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These are strange, strange times. Much as roughly a month ago I said (just once) "Yeah Muslim Brotherhood!" for fighting Qaddafi, "Yeah Democratic Underground!" for fighting these scumbags.
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Actually anyone that got served with papers from RHVN shoudl examine them for claims regardin ownership etc of the LV rag's articles. Apparently if they did claim (as seen in boilerplate) more-or-less "Full" copyrights to these articles, they filed false documents with the court. THis can be used to nullify any settlement as it was reached under false pretenses, and turn the suit over to local law enforcement as fraud via perjury in the civilk court filing (i.e. they lied about full ownership fo the copyrights, therfore they knowingly put a lie as part of the court filing, qed perjury).
If I were to have been sued and forced to settle, I would certainly be grabbing this document from the court of DU's suit and talking to a lawyer about the possibility of getting some serious cash back including damages. Hint. Hint.
[Straits Times] A TEACHER at a Malaysian religious school has been charged with the murder of a seven-year-old student who was accused of stealing seven ringgit (S$2.90), police said on Friday.
'Hanif Mohamad Ali has been charged in court with the murder of Saiful Syazani Saiful Sopfidee and is being held without bail,' Mohamad Nadzri Hussain, Arau district police chief in northern Perlis state, told AFP.
'He was charged on Thursday and if he is found guilty of the murder, Hanif will face the death penalty, which is carried out by hanging,' he added. A state court official confirmed the charge, but declined further comment.
The Star newspaper said Saiful was admitted to a public hospital with head injuries last month after he was allegedly tied up and beaten by the teacher for two hours for stealing from a classmate. He died two days later, it said.
Hanif's lawyers had tried to block media coverage of the trial but magistrate Nurshahida Abdul Rahim rejected the application, the Star reported.
Mr Mohamad Nadzri said that police had almost completed their investigation and that a date for the murder trial was expected to be set on May 13.
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[Straits Times] ONE 65-year-old man came back to life two-and-a-half hours after doctors at a Penang hospital pronounced him dead. He's dead, Jim! The rare phenomenon known as the Lazarus Syndrome has become the talk of the town. "When I peg out, hold off with the embalming fluid until I start to stink!"
"Me, too!"
"Yeah, and me!"
Upon learning of the self-employed man's death, his family began making funeral arrangements and had even put up a canopy in front of his house on Jalan Tok Elong, Tanah Liat in Bukit Mertajam. His wife and his 26-year-old son, who were on their way to the district police station to lodge a report, were stunned when a doctor called to inform them that the man was alive. "The funeral home probably won't return your deposit, y'know. Y'got anybody else in the family that's dead?"
Relating the incident, the man's son, known only as Mr Wei, said he had rushed his father to hospital at about 11am on Thursday when he stopped breathing at their home. "Pop! Pop! Say somethin'!"
[Rattle!]... [Twitch!]
'The doctors performed cardiac pulmonary resuscitation and pronounced him dead an hour later. "He's dead, Jim!"
"You said that!"
We then left for the police station when we received a call from a doctor at about 1.30pm,' he said. "Hello? Is this young Weh? Hey, listen, your old man sez he's not dead! You might wanta hold off on hiring the grave diggers!"
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The family probably won't pay their dad's emergency room bill either. I know the type well.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Walter Bruening, a retired railworker who was the world's oldest man, has died in the US state of Montana at the age of 114.
Breuning died Thursday of natural causes at a Great Falls hospital, Stacia Kirby, spokeswoman for the Rainbow Senior Living retirement home where he has lived since 1980, told local media.
Breuning attributed his long life to eating only two meals a day for the past 35 years.
"I think you should push back from the table when you're still hungry," he told the Great Falls Tribune newspaper in 2009.
"You get in the habit of not eating at night, and you realize how good you feel. If you could just tell people not to eat so darn much," he said.
"I am deeply saddened by the loss of my dear friend and a great Montanan," state Governor Brian Schweitzer said in a statement, reported the Tribune.
"Walter taught me that all things in moderation will help lead to a long life; that hard work and a modest living are enough for a happy life and most importantly that giving back to others is good for the soul."
Bruening was born in the town of Melrose, Minnesota, on September 21, 1896, and moved to Great Falls in 1918, finding work with the Great Northern Railway.
He was officially listed in the Guinness Book of World Records 2011 edition as the world's oldest living man, after inheriting the title from England's Henry Allingham, who passed away at age 113 in July 2009.
The record has now passed to Japan's Jiroemon Kimura, who turns 114 on Tuesday.
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Here's a weather disaster you don't read about every day...
WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: Southern IraqÂ’s Wassit Province has witnessed a strong sand storm that caused loss of sight and 278 suffocation cases among its citizens, WassitÂ’s Health Director said on Wednesday.
“A sand storm hit Wassit Province since Tuesday night, causing loss of sight, closing all shops, along with several suffocation cases,” Falah Qassim told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
He said the ProvinceÂ’s hospitals had received 278 cases of suffocation, caused by the sand storm, out of which 100 cases were registered in Kut, the center of Wassit Province. Sand storms have covered several Iraqi provinces since Tuesday night.
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Well, the US per se may experience "DUST BOWL" ERA CROPS BLIGHT + DUST STORMS BEFORE THE ONSET OF DE FACTO ICE AGE OR "MINI-ICE AGE", iff the GWCC Perts are correct???
Meanwhile ...
*ION AU NATURA, FREEREPUBLIC > SWARMS OF NEVADA QUAKES HAVE EXPERTS CONCERNED.
NETTERS = link to YELLOWSTONE SUPER-CALDERA???
* TOPIX > SIZE [+ Power] OF JAPAN QUAKE SURPRISED EVEN SCIENTISTS.
ARTIC > Massive deformations in Japan Trench = pressure for TOHOKU = "Sendai" Quake may had been building up for 500-1000 Years.
Wait until Nipponese start moving to China, or perhaps Russia to join Uncle Muammar.
[1980's MADONNA "LOVE DON'T HERE ANYMORE", "LIVE TO TELL" MTV Videos here].
[Ennahar] President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third term, which is probably why Algerians are ready to dump him... , who has not addressed the Algerians for over three months, since the blow a wind of revolution in the Arab world, would announced Friday evening "important" decisions in a televised speech to the nation.
"The Head of State will announce on this occasion, important decisions on deepening the democratic process, strengthening the foundations of the rule of law, reducing disparities and accelerating socio-economic development", said on Friday official sources.
Mr. Bouteflika, 74, celebrated this month his twelfth birthday in April as head of state in a country where the army plays an important political role for preventing the Islamists from seizing power in 1992.
While the Tunisian revolution had not yet swept the former president Zine El Abidine Benali, Chief of the Algerian state was confronted early in the year of riots that left five dead and 800 maimed.
Part of the opposition seized on this revolt to demand a regime change. But demonstrations in support of this application have been systematically prevented in Algiers, and the authority has sought to deny the political nature of the crisis.
A change of government emphatically announced by the press did not take place and President Bouteflika remained silent.
"We are for change of government, it is necessary," argued three days ago on TV the Secretary General of the National Liberation Front (FLN) Abdelaziz Belkhadem.
The FLN (former unique party, 136 seats) is the main party of the presidential Alliance with the National Democratic Rally (RND, 62 members) led by Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia and the Movement of Society for Peace (MSP-Islamic, 51 Deputies).
The only political decision taken by Mr Bouteflika since the riots of January was the lifting of the state of emergency declared in February 1992 to stem an Islamist insurgency.
However, The well-oiled However... significant social concessions were made to salaries, youth employment or housing construction. These concessions have created a demand for more and stronger which has resulted in numerous strikes and demonstrations.
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little known fact:
in the Berber language, "Bouteflika" translates as "pathetic comb-over"
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[An Nahar] Calm returned Friday to several towns in Uganda affected by festivities between police and opposition supporters that left 57 people injured, officials said.
Opposition supporters were protesting a rise in the cost of living and what they say is bad governance by President Yoweri Museveni.
"Everything is calm," deputy police front man Vincent Sekate told Agence La Belle France Presse. Uganda Red Thingy secretary general Michael Richard Nataka confirmed the return to normality across the country.
"We managed to put the situation to order. The isolated incidents in Kampala and some towns outside have been properly handled and the streets are now safe," deputy police chief Asan Kasingye told AFP.
"There were protests in Gulu and Masaka yesterday, but the police brought the situation to order and we are getting information that people are back to business," he added.
On Thursday police fought running battles with opposition supporters hurling stones in several Kampala suburbs.
Security forces also used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesting opposition supporters in Jinja, east of Kampala, and Masaka, a town on the road south, police commanders said.
Maraba, another southern town, and Gulu, the main northern town, were also affected.
"Yesterday evening we had a total of 47 injured. This morning it is 57 as we have included others from towns such as Jinja, Masaka and Gulu," Nataka said, adding: "There are reports of two dead in Gulu."
The Red Thingy could not immediately confirm the deaths.
Those injured included the main opposition leader Kizza Besigye who sustained a broken finger in what he thinks was a deliberate attempt to hit him.
"I'm inclined to think that it was deliberate. ... It was at a very close distance. One could not reasonably consider it was just stray fire hitting people," Besigye told AFP Friday.
Deputy police chief Kasingye warned that "any person who acts in breach of constitutional and lawful provisions to maintain law and order shall be harshly dealt with in the interest of public security."
"We encourage the general public to desist from engaging in acts of criminality and violence, more so not to participate in illegal processions and demonstrations being organized by a section of the opposition," he said.
But Besigye's Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party vowed to press ahead with protests regardless.
"We are going to continue until the situation in the country improves," FDC Vice President Salamu Musumba told AFP. "The incidents of yesterday are not going to stop us. Instead we are going to increase the momentum."
"This Sunday you will see people walking to pray. Monday, we shall walk to work. This is going to be the order of the day until the situation stabilizes," she added.
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[The Nation (Nairobi)] Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and may be in the process of being chased out now... President Blaise Compaore left the capital Ouagadougou early Friday amid a mutiny by his personal guard that has spread to other barracks, a military source said.
Compaore left during the night for his hometown Ziniare, some 30 kilometres (18 miles) north of Ouagadougou, the source said.
The mutiny began in the presidential palace grounds late Thursday after new popular protests against Compoare's 24-year-old regime in the landlocked west African country.
Small and heavy arms fire, which was clearly audible outside the compound, first came from the barracks of the elite and well-paid presidential guard before spreading to other barracks and military camps, an AFP journalist reported.
The guard were protesting the non-payment of a promised housing benefit.
The home of General Dominique Diendiere, Compaore's personal chief of staff, was burned down, the AFP journalist said, adding that soldiers looted many consumer goods stores in the capital.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Pro-Awami League Jubo League ... the youth wing of the Bangla Awami League... activists demanding tolls Translate that as "protection money"...
ransacked a fair at Hizla upazila in Barisal on Wednesday.
Belayet Hossain Dhali, Guabaria union parishad chairman, said a three-day long Baishaki Mela was organised at the field of Kalikapur Govt Primary School.
He alleged that activists of Jubo League demanded tolls from the fair organising committee on Wednesday.
When they refused to pay the toll, the Jubo League men attacked and ransacked the stalls and gate of the fair around 5:00pm, he alleged.
At least eight people were assaulted by the attackers, he added.
Hizla Police Station Officer-in-Charge Abul Khayer said police reached the spot and deployed force at the fair to maintain law and order. Soon to be followed by the RAB who will take the Jubo League activists for a late night stroll...
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Aside from "democratic underground", moveon.org is full of the most ignorant and foolish commie zombie idiots out there. It makes the daily kos look like a professional site. They all suck.
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They'll fast like Cindy Sheehan did when she fasted to protest the war. Expect these dolts to be passing around recipes for 'fast-compliant' vanilla ice cream-coffee smoothies...
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At least they didn't proclaim a hunger strike. With fasting you can claim you did it and its simply your word, you don't fail when someone catches you eating. No downside. No upside either because it doesn't change anything except make you feel all superior but that has never been a big consideration in lefty politics.
"Unemployed Poles will have to leave country," headlines De Volkskrant in its report on new measures to regulate workers from other EU countries proposed by the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, Henk Kamp of the liberal VVD party.
According to the daily, the rules "will be reinforced. Those who cannot provide for themselves will have to leave."
So they'll deport unemployed Poles. What about unemployed Somalis?
If the proposals are accepted "immigrants who have been out of work for more than three months will have to leave" and there will also be stricter sanctions against foreign criminals.
The mayor of The Hague, who has spoken of a "tsunami of Eastern workers," and his counterpart in Rotterdam both voiced their support for the measures.
However, the polish ambassador has said that the plan "is a subject for concern." De Volkskrant also announces that migrants from Europe and also from Turkey and Morocco who apply for welfare benefits "will have to demonstrate a mastery of the Dutch language."
However, the daily also notes that these measures will require the modification of a number of European directives.
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these measures will require the modification of a number of European directives.
At a minimum. They can get as frustrated as they want, but their hands are tied. The EU is built on "the four freedoms": free movement of goods, services, capital, and labor (i.e., people). The point of "the European project" was to remove barriers to movement and "harmonize" national laws, which concentrated and centralized decision-making at the top. So to solve their immigration problems, really, they'd have to dismantle the EU borg altogether. Good luck with that.
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De Volkskrant also announces that migrants from Europe and also from Turkey and Morocco who apply for welfare benefits "will have to demonstrate a mastery of the Dutch language."
I like the part "Deport Unemployed Foreigners" better.
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Misplaced sense of charity killed this good-hearted Italian.
Couldn't he have found someone a bit more worthy to "help"?
Sadly this glowing obit from another "activist" shows the same stupid missing of the point... he was killed by the Muslim fascists, you dolt. Those same people you seem to be trying hard to help.
Wish they could just grow a brain as there are many homeless suffering people in their OWN countries that need help. Why fly halfway round the world to help a pack of fanatical Muslims?
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Hamas has arrested two more people for this, making a total of four, according to the Jerusalem Post. It's even possible some of the arrestees are guilty.
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ION TOPIX > SIX US STAGES "MOST CHALLENGING" MISSLE DEFENSE TEST. Successful shootdown of IRBM.
Nice, but unfortunately is likely IMO to induce so-called "Rogue States", e.g. NORTH KOREA, ETC. to unilater respond via intentional escalation towards MORE REGIONAL, GLOBAL NUCLEAR BRINKMANSHIP = "GREAT POWERS" MILPOL CONFONTATIONISM.
Espec iff things are seemingly NOT going their way.
* WORLD TRIBUNE > [Lev Nazrovov] CHINESE DEFENSE MINISTER [Chi Haotian = 2005]: "VAST LANDS" IN NORTH AMERICA FOR "MASS COLONIZATION".
US-Canada = CANUSA, + also Australia.
* CHIN DEFENSE MASHUP [old] > SARAH PALIN: CHINA IS PREPARING FOR A [future big]MILITARY OFFENSIVE.
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When they bandy around expressions like Megajoules, you know they are dealing with some serious Shinola.
One of those projectiles is said to have the same destructive force as a conventional Tomahawk cruise missile. Another comparison they used was hitting a hard object with a Ford Taurus at 380 miles per hour.
200 to 250 nautical-mile range, and a mere $1000 per shot. The operational guns are anticipated to be in the 64 Megajoule range.
[Straits Times] THE Philippines wants to replace millions of petrol-powered tricycles with electric ones as part of efforts to clean up the nation's polluting mass transport system, President Benigno Aquino said on Friday.
The government will initially replace 20,000 tricycles that ply minor streets across the capital Manila and eventually expand the project throughout the country, Mr Aquino said in a speech to government employees.
It is hoped the scheme will save the impoverished country tens of millions of dollars annually.
'The (project) is an ambitious multi-year plan to wean public utility vehicles from the use of gasoline and diesel and to encourage them to shift to alternatives like natural gas, electricity and hybrid engines,' he said.
'I would like to see the day when nearly all public utility vehicles... run on alternative fuel, freeing the public transport sector and commuters from the threat of unreasonably high oil prices and unhealthy levels of air pollution.' Mr Aquino did not give a definite timetable of the programme, which was launched this week when 20 so-called 'e-tricycles' hit the streets of a Manila suburb.
Manila-based Asian Development Bank, which is funding the initial stage of the project, said transport sector emissions accounted for 30 per cent of all pollution in the Philippines. In Manila, vehicle emissions account for 80 per cent of all pollution, it said.
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IMO this has to go hand-in-hand wid improving the PHIL national economy as many many Filipinos live widout the modern conveniences, i.e. Household Utilities.
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Better a new power plant than those gasoline trikes. Seriously, you can't breathe when one of them goes by. Not to mention the reckless attitude of their drivers.
A new stamp that was meant to depict Lady Liberty in fact features a 1997 replica from outside a New York-themed casino in Las Vegas, it has emerged.
Three billion of the 44-cent (27p) stamps, which show a close-up of the New York, New York hotel's half-sized model, were printed before a collector spotted the error and contacted the weekly stamp news magazine Linn's Stamp News.
"The image is accurate," said Roy Betts, a spokesman for the US postal service. "Just of the Vegas version, not the one in New York". The mistake is thought to be the first of its kind. Stamp collectors everywhere rejoice...
A close inspection of the face on the "forever" stamp -- which can be used for first-class post indefinitely, regardless of price rises -- reveals several differences with the real statue's features.
Furthermore, where the famous windows in Liberty's crown should be, the Vegas replica has only crudely painted black blocks.
Mr Betts said the picture was obtained from an agency. "But we love the stamp and would have chosen this photograph anyway," he said. No stamps will be withdrawn and it is possible more will be produced.
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"This does not have to do with honor," Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Roland Steinle said. "This has to do with a man, his narcissism, his mean-spiritedness, his inability to forgive. He was driven to kill his daughter because it suited his purpose."
The judge sentenced Al-Maleki to 16 years in prison for second-degree murder, 15 years for the assault of Khalaf, and 3 1/2 years for leaving the scene of an accident.
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"This has to do with a man, his narcissism, his mean-spiritedness, his inability to forgive. He was driven to kill his daughter because it suited his purpose."
Islam, an excellent summarization. But "dad" should have gotten death for murdering his little girl. Period.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Walter Bruening, a retired railworker who was the world's oldest man, has died in the US state of Montana at the age of 114.
Bouteflika
