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Newspaper May Have Given Implicit License To Copy

Posted by timothy on from the this-way-to-the-lawsuit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Following up on the story of Righthaven, the 'copyright troll' that is working with the Las Vegas Journal Review to sue lots of websites (including one of Nevada's Senate candidates) for reposting articles from the LVRJ, a judge in one of the cases appears to be quite sympathetic to the argument that the LVRJ offered an 'implied license' to copy by not just putting their content online for free, but including tools on every story that say 'share this' with links to various sharing services (including one tool to 'share' via Slashdot!)."

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  1. Common Sense? by Haedrian · · Score: 5, Funny

    If common sense finally wins in one of these cases, it'll be the end of the world as we know it.

    Until they file an appeal.

  2. Re:Um... by Yvanhoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    How exactly is this going to work?

    How concisely you sum up years of interrogations about this whole "intellectual property" thing !

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  3. Re:Reform is needed. by jgagnon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just wait for lawyers to start patenting their particular model of "lawyering" and then the fun REALLY starts. :p

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  4. The end of the world as we know it? by Chas · · Score: 3, Funny

    But I feel fine!

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  5. Re:Reform is needed. by trum4n · · Score: 3, Funny

    They can afford SleepNumber beds.