Still too bad that publications like the Denver Post who were using Righthaven as their puppet couldn't be taken to task and given a legal boot up the arse too.
Righthaven stripped of rights
The corpse of copyright troll Righthaven may have given its last twitch, with a US judge relieving the company of the only thing it had to work with: copyright. Unable to pay its debts, Righthaven has been ordered by a Las Vegas federal judge to relinquish both its copyrights and its trademark, reports Vegas Inc. Before any …
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Tuesday 6th March 2012 23:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
Well...
... if you have the dosh do pick up any remaining copyright assignments (and they are somehow enforceable) you can go after the sources of that copyright and suing them right back. Would be about as likely to succeed as righthaven's business model. But if you really wanted to, you could.
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Wednesday 7th March 2012 05:35 GMT silent_count
"courtesy of other rulings finding that it didn’t own many of the copyrights it was trying to enforce"
Wouldn't that expose the company's directors, and the lawyers working on their behalf, to prosecution for bearing false witness? If they're trying to sue people for breaching THEIR copyright on X, it'd be incumbent upon the complainant to ensure they actually owned the copyright on X before proceeding.
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Wednesday 7th March 2012 10:50 GMT Robert Carnegie
"Moot" means many things.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/moot
It means different things as adjective, verb, or noun. Such as, "a ring gauge for checking the diameters of treenails." A treenail is "a wooden pin that swells when moist, used for fastening together timbers, as those of ships."
So, what did this fellow mean?