Saturday, April 16, 2011

Judge strikes Righthaven website domain demand

Judge strikes Righthaven website domain demand
Las Vegas Sun ^ | 16 apr 2011 | Steve Green

Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2011 7:11:06 AM by rellimpank

Things went from bad to worse on Friday for Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC when a judge rejected Righthaven’s standard copyright infringement lawsuit demand that defendants forfeit their website domain names to Righthaven.
Chief U.S. District Judge for Nevada Roger Hunt also found merit in arguments that Righthaven can’t demand attorney’s fees in its lawsuits, though he didn’t issue a final ruling on that issue.

Hunt’s ruling on those two issues came in a Righthaven lawsuit against former federal prosecutor Thomas DiBiase, who has a website covering “no body” murder investigations nationwide — cases in which a murder is suspected but no body has been located

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