Copyright Trolling for Dollars: Media’s Latest Answer to Money Woes

Steve Gibson has a plan to save the media world’s financial crisis — and it’s not the iPad. Borrowing a page from patent trolls, the CEO of fledgling Las Vegas-based Righthaven has begun buying out the copyrights to newspaper content for the sole purpose of suing blogs and websites that re-post those articles without permission. And he says he’s making money. “We believe it’s the best solution out there,” Gibson says. “Media companies’ assets are very much their copyrights. These companies need to understand and appreciate that those assets have value more than merely the present advertising revenues.” Righthaven CEO Steve Gibson is embarking on a copyright trolling litigation camapaign Gibson’s vision is to monetize news content on the backend, by…
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tech_fetish (Manuel de la Higuera) : ¿Quién quiere #Ping habiendo #LastFM? Este despropósito es copyright de #Apple Computers Inc... Updated : 2010-09-07T17:19:34Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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LegalTeamUSA (Zies Widerman Malek) : Texas Federal Judge rules assignee has standing to sue for an infringement occurring prior to assignment of copyright http://bit.ly/9BQhFI.. Updated : 2010-09-07T17:19:25Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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Deutschfluester (Lutz Spilker) : Anime Copyright Allianz: Illegale Angebote denunzieren? http://nblo.gs/7BFPf.. Updated : 2010-09-07T17:19:10Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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tamerabennett (Tamera Bennett) : Copyright agreement draft leaked again: Andrew Charlesworth, Computing , Tuesday 7 September 2010 at 17:01:00 ACTA... http://bit.ly/9dHwde.. Updated : 2010-09-07T17:19:08Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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cameronbunn (Cameron) : RT @DavidDiFranco: Congratulations, @YouTube. Your copyright claiming system is 100% flawed. Seriously, fix this! http://twitpic.com/2m64oz.. Updated : 2010-09-07T17:18:43Z | Reply | View Tweet |






















