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Senate Candidate Sued By Copyright Troll

Posted by samzenpus on from the lesson-in-the-law dept.

The Iso writes "Las Vegas based company Righthaven found two articles from the Las Vegas Review-Journal about Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle reprinted on her web site without permission, so it did what it always does: bought the rights to the articles from the Review-Journal and sued the alleged infringer, seeking unspecified damages."

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  1. Re:How do these people sleep at night. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    nothing they do could possibly help anyone but themselves

    That is a bit of an overstatement. Didn't you even read the summary? This suit will very likely benefit society as a whole; this is a REPUBLICAN candidate they are suing.

  2. Re:What is the name of the person in charge? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I like to imagine it's someone called Baron Righthaven - at least with such an evil sounding charicature I can try and maintain my naive childhood view of good and evil in the world (and hope that a hero in shining armour will get around to slaying him when he's done rescuing princesses and such).

  3. Re:How do these people sleep at night. by vadim_t · · Score: 3, Funny

    On top of a pile of money with many beautiful ladies