Newspaper Chain’s New Business Plan: Copyright Suits

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There is a lawyer suing bloggers and syndication sites now:
...up to $150,000 for a single infringement...  
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Steve Gibson has a plan to save the media world’s financial crisis — and it’s not the iPad.

Borrowing a page from patent trolls, the CEO of fledgling Las Vegas-based Righthaven has begun buying out the copyrights to newspaper content for the sole purpose of suing blogs and websites that re-post those articles without permission. And he says he’s making money.

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