Website owner pushes back against Righthaven with counterclaim

[Newsjock]

Source: Las Vegas Sun

Another website owner is fighting back against newspaper copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC, counter-suing the Las Vegas firm and charging it sues first and asks questions later.

A motion for dismissal and a counterclaim was filed against Righthaven on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Nevada by Azkar Choudhry and his Pak.Org website, which were sued by Righthaven on Dec. 13.

... The Righthaven lawsuit, Choudhry's attorneys say, resulted from a Make Magazine blog on Oct. 7. That blog included a post called "Can a Building Be a Sun-Death Ray? Yes!" and included the Review-Journal graphic, a link to the Review-Journal Vdara story and a link to an article in Wired Magazine about the optical properties of curved buildings, Wednesday's court filing said.

The Make post was put on its RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed, which GupShup subscribes to, resulting in the post showing up on a GupShup forum, Choudhry's filing said.

"At no time did the GupShup post include a copy of the infographic, it merely linked to that image at its location on Make's servers," Choudhry's attorneys wrote in their filing.

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/jan/20/website-owner-pushes-back-against-righthaven-count/

[RKP5637]

1. Some of these sites waging these suits can be ID'ed using the following Firefox addon -

It works fairly well, but does not seem perfect.

http://righthavenvictims.blogspot.com/p/block-stephens-media-sites.html

[Ian David]

2. I'm installing it, and just posted the link on Twitter! Thanks! n/t

[RKP5637]

3. Yep! Just FYI, it works most of the time OK. Sometimes a site gets through, no

idea why. I'm using it with Firefox Linux, maybe Firefox Windows works better, no idea.

[Ian David]

4. I can't get it to import the list. n/t

[RKP5637]

5. When you created the import file did you include [BlockSite] as the first

entry in the file. I had not done that and was going in circles and then realized that had to be the first entry in the file.

[Ian David]

6. Just retried it without the carriage return before the {blocklist} and it worked.

Also, you have to whitelist DU, or else it tags it as "containing elements" from the black list.

[RKP5637]

7. Thanks for the update! Glad you got it working OK! n/t