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Righthaven Is Defunct, But Legacy Survives
- Technology & Marketing Law Blog, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 1:34 PM
It has been five years since copyright enforcement outfit Righthaven decided to sue bloggers for reposting stories from newspapers like the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Righthaven itself is now defunct, but its lawsuits led to some sweeping rulings about “fair use” -- including a decision finding that a blogger who reposted an entire news article made fair use of the piece. “Righthaven’s litigation campaign imposed substantial personal cost on individual defendants, but society benefited overall from Righthaven’s litigation efforts,” Eric Goldman writes on the Technology & Marketing Law Blog.
