Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Copyright troll Righthaven's epic blunder: a lawsuit targeting Ars

Not content with just suing sources, small out-of-state nonprofits, bloggers who get 20 hits per day, and other massive copyright pirates, newspaper litigation firm Righthaven this week trained its guns on Ars Technica. The company filed a federal lawsuit against one of our freelance writers over a post (about Righthaven) that appeared on the site back in December—only to dismiss it this morning.

Why was the case ever brought? It was (cough) a "clerical mistake."

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Source: http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/hix7a7BfVFs/copyright-troll-righthavens-epic-blunder-a-lawsuit-targeting-ars.ars

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