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Author Topic: MediaNews won't renew contract with "copyright enforcer" Righthaven  (Read 2996 times)

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MediaNews won't renew contract with "copyright enforcer" Righthaven

"It's a model that isn't working very well for us," she said. "It's something we felt was important to try because we are committed to protecting copyright, but it hasn't worked the way we expected."

- MediaNews vice president of field operations Sara Glines

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_18846816


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Re: MediaNews won't renew contract with "copyright enforcer" Righthaven
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2011, 02:15:51 PM »

"It was a dumb idea": newspaper chain fires copyright troll Righthaven

The new chief executive of MediaNews Group, publisher of the Denver Post and 50 other newspapers, said it was “a dumb idea” for the nation’s second-largest newspaper chain to sign up with copyright troll Righthaven.

“The issues about copyright are real,” Paton told Wired.com in a telephone interview. “But the idea that you would hire someone on an—essentially—success fee to run around and sue people at will who may or may not have infringed as a way of protecting yourself... does not reflect how news is created and disseminated in the modern world."
 
“I come from the idea that it was a dumb idea from the start,” Paton added, noting that Righthaven was informed of the decision to end relations last month.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/it-was-a-dumb-idea-newspaper-chain-fires-copyright-troll-righthaven.ars?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+Featured+Content%29

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