Ars Technica has another brief post on Righthaven. A Colorado court trying its case against a blogger for posting a photo without permission has found in favor of the defendant, because Righthaven did not actually own the rights to the image it would have needed for its suit to be valid. The judge required Righthaven to pay $33,147 in legal fees and costs. (Good luck squeezing that money out of them.)

At the rate judgments are piling up against it, I don’t expect Righthaven to last very much longer. Which will be a pity—I haven’t been this entertained by legal antics in a long time, and who knows how long it will be before the next larger-than-life batch of idiots comes along?

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  1. The trouble is, though, that “Righthaven” is really nothing but a bunch of people: and even if — or as it now seems, when — the company is made bankrupt and dissolved, the people behind it will still have their earnings and their pensions: and I bet a good number of them will soon find employment with other companies angling to try the same thing. All they have to do is find one naive judge.

    Until we get rid of limited liability and find a way to shaft home the activities of a company to the people responsible, scams like this will continue to occur. The risk is minimal and the upside is blue sky.

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