“This is a hard fought and important victory for free speech rights on the Internet,” said Laurence Pulgram, the partner who led the team at Fenwick & West, LLP in San Francisco. “Unless we respond to such efforts to intimidate, we’ll end up with an Internet that is far less fertile for the cultivation and discussion of the important issues that affect us all.”

It’s not quite over for copyright troll Righthaven (its owner will probably be appearing in court soon for a debtor examination), but as the attorneys at the Electronic Frontier Foundation note, EFF’s latest court victory – in which Stevens Media, financial backer of Righthaven, conceded that “posting a short excerpt of a news article in an online forum is not copyright infringement” – constitutes a decisive victory against the outfit that went after, among hundreds of other blogs, University Diaries.

Margaret Soltan, 11:52AM
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  1. Bill Gleason Says:
    November 20th, 2011 at 1:34PM

    I know this is silly…

    But I am a great fan of the movie Popeye with Robin Williams and Shelly Duval.

    Every time I see the name Righthaven, I think of Sweethaven in the movie. Link: http://bit.ly/wDeNU

    It’s snowing in Minneapolis. And life is good.

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