Copyright TrollsNewspaper Chain’s New Business Plan: Copyright Suits
23 07 2010- By David Kravets
- July 22, 2010 |
- 3:29 pm |
- Categories: The Courts, intellectual property
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.
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