… people are paying attention to today’s Supreme Court ruling on violent video games; but there’s a smaller free speech story, also today, involving the South Carolina Supreme Court, that’s arguably more important.
I’m talking about the ongoing implosion of Righthaven, generally referred to as a copyright troll. (Background here.) As Steve Green reports in Vegas Inc., two groups in South Carolina have now
asked the court to find that Righthaven’s business model is the “unauthorized practice of law” and to “enjoin Righthaven from operating in South Carolina.”
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Everyone who blogs has an interest in the fate of Righthaven, which, according to the complaint before the South Carolina court, “subjects [bloggers] to endless litigation over injuries it did not suffer for claims it does not own.”