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Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC is now suing individual message-board posters, not just website operators.
Righthaven, which files copyright infringement lawsuits over unapproved online postings of material from the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Denver Post, filed seven infringement lawsuits Tuesday and Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Nevada, lifting its lawsuit total since March to at least 203.
Among the defendants sued Monday were message board posters identified as James Higgins and Wayne Hoehn.
Both the madjacksports and Google sites are somewhat protected from copyright lawsuits because they have posted "DMCA" notices as required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. These notices, which must be registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, inform copyright holders who to contact if they would like infringing material removed.
An attorney for Righthaven on Wednesday said those notices don't apply to individual website users who violate copyrights by posting material online without authorization.
As usual in its lawsuits, Righthaven demands $150,000 in damages from both Higgins and Hoehn.
Righthaven extends copyright lawsuit campaign to individual Web posters - Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 | 4:33 p.m. - Las Vegas Sun
Uh oh.