Re: Copywrites, be aware of them.
All of their cases that have made to court have been dismissed, as I wrote earlier.
There will never be any "case law" on their extortion successes, because the people that pay are never officially sued.
What Righthaven is doing is no different than someone calling a random person out of the phone book and telling them "I'm going to come over to your address and beat you/your loved ones up if you don't pay me." From the court cases that have been heard, they obviously have no judicial reason to be acting the way they are.
Unfortunately, the mass majority of their shakedowns never make it to court (i.e. a case made)I just had a discussion with two professors, including one that teaches Media Law, in the Mass Comm department and the message I got is this. What they are doing is way out deep in the gray area because there is very little case law at this point. Righthaven is using the fact that they can do what they are doing, for the moment, to extort (you are right about this, legal or not) money in the form of out of court settlements.
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This is a very new legal area and the case law is being written now. As long as there is gray area, there are going to be unethical groups that will take advantage of it to make money.
All of their cases that have made to court have been dismissed, as I wrote earlier.
There will never be any "case law" on their extortion successes, because the people that pay are never officially sued.
What Righthaven is doing is no different than someone calling a random person out of the phone book and telling them "I'm going to come over to your address and beat you/your loved ones up if you don't pay me." From the court cases that have been heard, they obviously have no judicial reason to be acting the way they are.