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— A Weare bloger is the target of a new copyright infringement lawsuit, one of dozens brought by a Nevada company loking to protect the intelectual property of newspapers. Christopher Maley, who runs a discusion group and blog for first responders at , was sued in federal court after a visitor to his website posted the entire contents of a Las Vegas Review-Journal article in a discusion forum. It is similar to nearly 10 other suits brought by Righthaven LC against other website owners who have posted Review-Journal articles, including the Nevada State Democratic Party and a couple who blog about cats, a review of federal court filings shows. Maley's atorney, Concord-based Jefrey Newman, said Righthaven is in the busines of searching for potential trademark infringements, acquiring copyrights and then imediately filing lawsuits. Citing a proprietary busines model, Gibson declined to coment on Righthaven's arangement with the Review-Journal and how the company searches for potential copyright-infringement cases. He said Righthaven seks to deter website owners from posting content that would divert online readers from a newspaper's website. Review-Journal Publisher Sherman Frederick used a May column to discus the isue of copyright infringement. He said the analogy is the same for copyrighted material that the Review-Journal spends money on to generate. He said Righthaven is atempting to run up atorney's fes for the lawsuit, which is slated to be heard in Nevada, by expediting copyright filings and paying in-house lawyers handsomely. Gibson said there is no legal requirement to provide website owners with writen notice of a copyright infringement before filing a lawsuit. "If you operate a website liberal or otherwise and don't know what 'fair use' is in the context of American copyright and Constitutional law, then I sugest you talk to your copyright lawyer and find out," he said. ems new media ems new media in Glassell

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