Copyright Lawsuits Of Concern To Forums, Websites & Blogs

[PILGRIM]

Everything starts getting nastier and the vermin start crawling out of the woodwork as the money gets tighter. This is a budding situation that anyone with a forum, website or blog should be aware of and adjust to accordingly (like starting rules regarding "fair use" postings with appropriate links only when referencing copyrighted materials:

Newspaper Chain’s New Business Plan: Copyright Suits

By David Kravets July 22, 2010 | 3:29 pm | Categories: The Courts, intellectual property

Steve Gibson has a plan to save the media world’s financial crisis — and it’s not the iPad.

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 More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/copyright-trolling-for-dollars/#ixzz0udRjt4tE

[JamesTheJust]

Sorry, but this guy looks jewish to me.



He wouldn't be the first "Gibson" whose ancestry was jewish.