Professional tennis’ husband-wife duo Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, who own a stake in Pure nightclub, claim that managers of the club mismanaged finances and used money from Pure to fund competing nightclubs, according to a lawsuit filed this week.
Even as Righthaven LLC’s most powerful critic pounded on Righthaven’s lawsuit campaign Tuesday, the Las Vegas company sued three more website owners, claiming they infringed on copyrights by re-posting news stories and columns without authorization.
One of the executives behind the copyright infringement lawsuits over online Las Vegas Review-Journal stories says the newspaper industry hasn’t done a good job of protecting its copyrights.
By allowing people to read its stories online for free, the Las Vegas Review-Journal is essentially giving away those stories, and recipients of the articles are free to display them on their own websites.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said going to a judicial merit selection system is good for business and has enjoyed strong support from the private sector across the country.
The economy has curtailed business for Las Vegas law firms that have stepped up their advertising and are slowly turning to social media to build their brands.
A group fighting the establishment of a prison in Pahrump is among the latest to be sued for copyright infringement after a Las Vegas Review-Journal story allegedly was posted on its website.
Another company facing a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Righthaven LLC is fighting back, this time calling the Las Vegas company’s litigation campaign “a parasitical abuse” of judicial resources.
A quick settlement has been reached in a copyright infringement lawsuit pitting Righthaven LLC against the largest public relations company in Las Vegas.
Advocates for the legalization of marijuana and a Florida dating website operator are among the latest to be sued for copyright infringement after Las Vegas Review-Journal stories allegedly were posted on their websites.
American legal and media insiders seem to agree the unauthorized online re-posting of newspaper content is an issue. Some agree it’s a problem. But uncertainties abound in quantifying how it may be affecting newspaper revenue.
