Righthaven Appeals The Idea That Using Entire Work Could Be Fair Use

[Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi)]

Righthaven has finally gotten around to filing its official appeal in the case against the non-profit Center for Intercultural Organizing (CIO). If you don't recall, this was the case in which the judge ruled at the summary judgment stage in in favor of fair use, even though an entire article was used (the issue of Righthaven's standing concerning whether or not it actually held the copyrights in question was not raised in this case, since it was before the agreement between Stephens Media and Righthaven became public). The argument is embedded below, but Righthaven basically hits on two points:

1. The judge erred in ruling on fair use at this point in the process.
2. The judge's fair use analysis itself was wrong


http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111123/13524816893/righthaven-appeals-idea-that-using-entire-work-could-be-fair-use.shtml

[SoylentGreen]

Interesting thing is that even if a different judge finds that it wasn't "fair use", the newspaper article must be registered if Righthaven is collect much, if anything at all...

S.G.

[Digitizer3k]

I think it will take a stake through the heart to keep these guys in their coffins at night. 

What account did they write the check from?