By Wyatt Earp | August 23, 2010
Consider this a follow-up of sorts to last night’s Philly blogger post. A Las Vegas-based group is suing bloggers who re-post their client’s content. Begun, the Blog War has.
Sure, you can sue … but we have other tools to fight back:
Borrowing a page from patent trolls, the CEO of fledgling Las Vegas-based Righthaven has begun buying out the copyrights to newspaper content for the sole purpose of suing blogs and websites that re-post those articles without permission. And he says he’s making money.
Read the rest here, including a way to steer clear of Righthaven’s sites by blocking them through a Firefox add-on.
My advice? Be very careful when posting news stories – especially if they are from the Las Vegas media.
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August 23rd, 2010 at 7:24 pm
I have to give them some credit for their brainpower. Because, anyone who can make a profit today in the newspaper business is damn smart.
August 23rd, 2010 at 8:08 pm
AJ – Yeah, the rest of them are failing miserably. Heh.
August 23rd, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Read about this is the Las Vegas Review Journal a few weeks ago. According to their point of view if you put in a link to the info it’s OK.
http://www.lvrj.com/
August 23rd, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Loaded Dice from Vegas:
“From Vegas”? What a coincidence! How do we know if you are on the up and up? Maybe you are being paid by those lawyers to give us bad advice so they can then turn around and sue us? Heh.
August 23rd, 2010 at 11:57 pm
LDIV – I always give the linky love from an article, but it’s not the LVRJ I’m worried about. It’s the ambulance chasers.
AJ – He’s the mole! (Oh sorry, 24 is off the air now.)
August 24th, 2010 at 12:46 am
“From Vegas”? What a coincidence! How do we know if you are on the up and up? Maybe you are being paid by those lawyers to give us bad advice so they can then turn around and sue us? Heh.
And I thought I was PARANOID!!!!!!1
August 24th, 2010 at 11:45 am
Let’s put this outfit on that deserted island with Asia Coney.
August 24th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Loaded Dice, yes, that is the claim. But I know one blog I used to read daily went to a links-only format with no way to tell what the link was about – I stopped reading that blog months ago. So the claimed purpose is self-defeating, and the outfit that is doing this (an agency hired by the news outfit – not clear to me if the news guys were aware of it until after it made national attention) is going to hasten the death of their client by going after everybody rather than putting some limit, such as 400 words…
August 24th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
John A – They will also hasten the death of the client because bloggers will avoid them. No links, no posts, in short, no new readers. Most of us will just boycott their clients and go elsewhere.
August 25th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
They want what happens in Vegas to stay there.