From alexleavitt at gmail.com Wed Nov 24 14:06:27 2010 From: alexleavitt at gmail.com (Alex Leavitt) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:06:27 -0500 Subject: [FC-OpenUniv] Nevada + Fair Use Message-ID: Looks like a Nevada court's doing the right thing and going after Righthaven's blindness towards Fair Use. This is awesome. http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/11/nevada-court-hits-righthaven-with-fair-use-surprise.ars *A Nevada judge has given copyright troll Righthaven until mid-December to explain why one of the law firm's targets wasn't exercising its right to Fair Use when it republished a newspaper article on its website.* *...* *Righthaven specializes in demanding cash and, in some instances, the domains of websites that republish all or even portions of articles from the Las Vegas Review Journal .* Alex --- Alexander Leavitt Researcher Microsoft Research New England Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Convergence Culture Consortium (Comparative Media Studies, MIT) http://alexleavitt.com http://doalchemy.org Twitter: @alexleavitt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: