Copyright Troll Righthaven Obtains Licenses to Litigate

by Traverse Legal, reviewed by Enrico Schaefer - April 20, 2011 - The Ethics of Law

As reported by Martha Neil of the Intellectual Property Law blog section of the ABA Journal, the copyright litigation firm known as Righthaven is at it again.  Apparently, Righthaven is obtaining license agreements from copyright owners that essentially assign ownership rights to the copyrighted works to Righthaven in order to pursue copyright infringement lawsuits against alleged infringers.

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