Copyright bully Righthaven which was searching out articles reprinted on blogs from the Las Vegas News Review and other papers may be closed down after losing court case. Company often charged even small time bloggers with no advertising tens of thousands of dollars (from other reports I've read in the past year and charged both Sharron Angle and the Democratic party of Nevada $150k for copyright infringement also according to other reports. You can read at link how they may have met their match in court, and could lose their business. Could such a huge loss so early in the development of such seek and sue efforts, put an end to the whole model which was beginning to take off? http://bit.ly/nMoAUA
Reading a link in the article linked above the case gets even more exciting. The judge found that though a man actually did a cut and paste from information from the Las Vegas paper, it was deemed "Fair Use" possibly because it was pasted into a forum post from which the copier would have had no way to earn money from the placement.
So this is exciting news for those who want to share what's happening with their peers, and possibly bad news for those who want to lock knowledge and news up in a safe so all people will hear are the politicians.
