Federal Lawsuit Against Law Med Blog Circles The Drain


Back on May 24 we told you about a company called Righthaven. It wasn’t that there was anything about Righthaven that you really needed or wanted to know actually. We were being selfish. You see, Righthaven filed a federal lawsuit in Nevada Federal District Court against this blog. In that lawsuit they claimed that Law Med violated copyright by re-printing* content from the Las Vegas Review Journal (no link to that publication from us unless absolutely necessary…google it if you must). “Well what about it?”, you may ask. There is a little something called Fair Use of copyrighted material under the law. Imagine if we all had to go about our day being careful never to share with another copyrighted material. Never use a book, or newspaper, or video to educate or stimulate conversation, or inform, or rally a cause, without first running about and… (Continued...)




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